Sentences with phrase «peculiar combination»

Eberstadt recounts her experience avidly perusing parenting manuals until, over time, they became «profoundly irritating» because of their «peculiar combination of joylessness and self - congratulation.»

Surely it is a waste to toss my life away on the peculiar combination of my own experiences — unexpected conversations and mountain - top exhilaration, mixed with periodic headaches and a tablespoon of robin - song at dawn.

A mystical conception of God can be dualistic or pantheistic, or even both in some peculiar combination.

It is obvious that there must be a peculiar combination of factors which have produced the present crisis.

When we begin to apply these principles to the task before all men of good will, we get something like the following: We need a world - shaking movement to offset the planetary dangers that a peculiar combination of factors has now produced.

Claudio Castelnovo, a physicist at the University of Oxford on the Morris team, explains that the compounds offer a peculiar combination of order and freedom that facilitates the dissociation of the poles.

Claudio Castelnovo, a postdoctoral physicist at the University of Oxford who co-authored one of the Science papers and also co-wrote a paper in Nature last year describing how monopoles might be realized in spin ices, explains that the compounds offer a peculiar combination of order and freedom that facilitates the dissociation of the poles.

«I've spent much of my career trying to understand the peculiar combination of changes and spaces that characterizes American society as it stumbles on trying to put teeth into its vision of freedom.»

Such side spaces were actually designed as wine cellars, with the objective to emphasize that peculiar combination of art, architecture, and wine culture which is the distinctive feature of the Château La Coste site.

In its aesthetics, and by its nature exist a peculiar combination of sobriety and humour, sagacity and joy, elaboration and simplicity.

If that sounds a peculiar combination, then look at it this way: William Blake's influence on modern art has taken many forms, but none so strange or true.

Artists, he believed, are a peculiar combination of seeker, prophet and craftsman.

This young British company 1927 consists of a peculiar combination of members, including animators, writers, pianists and actors.

Yet while their peculiar combination of realism and fiction can be seen to connect the works conceptually — and also defines an immediacy rarely found in contemporary painting — each retains a singularity that seems to suggest that nothing has come before it.

With his peculiar combination of home made socialism, populist nationalism and impulsive despotism, you never can tell what the next brilliant idea will be.

Competing in the Iditarod — and finishing the race — takes a peculiar combination of dog - loving softy and mental discipline.