Sentences with phrase «peculiar about»

What is peculiar about Nestle's pre-employment assessment is that one of its interviews is a panel interview.

But what's peculiar about this particular...

There's something very peculiar about the OnePlus 5 flagship that OnePlus will launch at some point in the coming weeks.

While there's nothing peculiar about the mid-range handset, it is worth noting that unlike the Moto Z series, the Moto M isn't compatible with the Moto Mod external accessories.

[Response: Getting at your question in a slightly different way, one thing that is peculiar about eddies embedded in the western boundary currents (there are analogies for the atmosphere too, e.g. the jet stream), is that they exhibit the property of «negative viscosity».

There is something peculiar about seeing a historical figure (a crazy dude, driven mad by gout and lead poisoning) represented as an anime girl represented on a boob - mouse pad.

Hammerhead sharks are very peculiar about the areas of the ocean that attract them, but the edge of the continental shelf of the Atlantic Ocean where it meets near Placencia attracts large schools of hammerheads.

There is something even more peculiar about our species than all these things, and that is this: we are the only species on the planet that can not be fully explained by Charles Darwin's otherwise faultless theory of evolution by natural selection.

There was nothing peculiar about the ride until the point when it...

There was nothing peculiar about the ride until the point when it broke; I was at a stop sign and got through the intersection before it popped.

What is most peculiar about this season of The Walking Dead is how it has felt like the war... Read More

The Planty: Take a look at a map of Kraków, and you might notice something peculiar about the shape of the Old Town.

You might say matching t - shirts, what's so peculiar about that?

A personal example: I am very peculiar about wearing «colors» together.

Then in 2015, Citizen scientists analyzing the data noticed something very peculiar about WTF's brightness.

While testing that idea, the researchers noticed something peculiar about cancerous cells that had been removed from leukemia patients and were growing in lab dishes.

«It is still too early to say if this is due to our new observational technique or if there is something peculiar about the quasars in our sample.

Reyes, who is running against Eric Ulrich in a Republican Primary, noticed something very peculiar about Ulrich's visit to National Night Out Against Crime, he had a criminal in tow.

«What's peculiar about this country is the sort of shibboleth... the sacred cow aspect of the NHS, even though what the government is trying to achieve is the NHS just becomes a sort of kitemark for all these private companies, who are just sort of feeding, picking off the profitable bits.

The thing that strikes me as a little peculiar about these comments is that both Diaby and Wenger appear to be steering clear of complaining about the tackle by Robinson, praising the physical nature of English football and in the process accepting it as part of the game.

That is very peculiar about the aniseed bread, I didn't spot that one... it sounds pretty poor.

A few of the writers and prophets of the Old Testament noticed something very peculiar about God's actions toward those people who cursed Him.

There was something very peculiar about him.

If you were to say there's something rather peculiar about chasing money as a means to an end, I could certainly see your point.

While studying systems design engineering at the University of Waterloo, Baker noticed something peculiar about the dot - com boom then underway.

Not exact matches

But when it comes to fast - growth entrepreneurship of the exalted and peculiar variety that produces breakthrough entrepreneurs, the U.S. has done a great job of unlocking only about half of our human capital.

«The other peculiar thing about this whole discussion is that the claim of privilege supports the accuracy of Comey's account,» he said.

I found a peculiar euphoria in thinking about my theory, which I thought about all the time,» Wise, who wrote a book on the subject, explained.

«Call of Duty: Black Ops 4» was announced in a peculiar way: NBA star James Harden wore a hat bearing the logo seen above, which led to speculation about a forthcoming announcement.

Bain consultants have a peculiar tenacity about them,» says Chrysler Motors Chairman Gerald Greenwald.»

I have a peculiar framework for thinking about the American idea of liberty, which I first developed for a class, but which I'm now hoping to develop into a book.

He recounts the time the famous caricaturist Max Beerbohm was asked about Freudianism, to which he gave this inimitable reply: «A tense and peculiar family, the Oedipuses, were they not?»

And now they're complaining about losing taxpayer money to support their particular, or peculiar, view of the cosmos?

On the reading I propose, the Reformation schism was brought about instead by contingent human choices in a confused historical context defined less by clear and principled theological argument (though that of course was present) than by a peculiar and distinctively sixteenth - century combination of overheated and ever - escalating polemics, cold - blooded Realpolitik, and fervid apocalyptic dreaming.

Talk about bearing the cross does not go down easy these days, but that, too, is nothing peculiar to our times.

We are then left with some 300 verses in Matthew containing narratives and discourses peculiar to that gospel, and about 550 verses in Luke containing matter not found in the other gospels.

There is no theory of God, just a peculiar hope of some people that there is something about the Universe that knows they are here and cares about them.

Even if he is a Christian, for example, he can set aside all the particular beliefs about Jesus Christ, God, miracles, salvation, and eternal life that he recognizes as peculiar to that tradition.

Such problems may include «excessive affective dependency,» disproportionate aggression, incapacity to be faithful to obligations, incapacity for openness and trust, inability to cooperate with authority and confused sexual identity...» Of course all that is true; but wouldn't half an hour with a candidate over a pint tell most of us whether there is something about him that's a bit peculiar?

Biemel maintains a peculiar silence about matters such as these.

The way to crimes against humanity was prepared by peculiar ways of thinking about humanity.

Might there even have been a few visionaries beginning about 1850 to promote a centennial celebration in which the several southern states would proclaim Emancipation, voluntarily doing away with the «peculiar institution»?

This American - centered view is peculiar, given Greider's fundamental argument about the daunting, impersonal and, now transnational nature of economic forces.

The reason this has proved to be such a problem in process thought has less to do with the peculiar nature of Whitehead's concept of God than with an underlying assumption about prehension.

This sense of the world's presence, appealing as it does to our peculiar individual temperament, makes us either strenuous or careless, devout or blasphemous, gloomy or exultant, about life at large; and our reaction, involuntary and inarticulate and often half unconscious as it is, is the completest of all our answers to the question, «What is the character of this universe in which we dwell?»

Many of us who have written about Rawls» argument have noted that the people behind his famous «veil of ignorance» are a peculiar kind of people (i.e., people very much like John Rawls) and therefore can hardly serve as the normative deliberators producing universal moral principles.

If some visitor from another planet, knowing nothing at all about this world of ours, should drop down upon us, he would surely find that the biped who was erect had a peculiar characteristic marking his behavior — he would observe this creature on his knees in what the creature called «the presence of the invisible God.»

To understand what he is talking about, one needs to know something of the issue at stake in the whole letter, the problems in the Galatian churches to which it is sent, the peculiar meanings words like «law» have for Paul, and similar matters of historical understanding.

But one should also compare the critical remarks of Theodoros in the Theaetetus, 179e f, about the attempts of the followers of Heraclitus to reflect the essence of the flux of all things by means of peculiar and mysterious expressions.

We historians of the ancient Greeks» democracy need to keep banging on not only about the virtues of their peculiar political form, but also about the key differences — theoretical, ideological, and pragmatic — between any modern versions of «democracy» and theirs.