Sentences with phrase «peculiar combination of»

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

«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.»

Often it has been witnessed that cougar dating turns out to be an adventurous one owing to the peculiar combination of thrill and terror contained in the same bag.

There are different sorts of chemicals in the environment that may also be able to kill off hives over time and there does not seem to be just any one factor or any peculiar combination of all of these different factors that is now causing the collapse disorder.

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.

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.

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.

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.»

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It's a combination of the game Overwatch and Minecraft, but it has one peculiar difference.

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.

The combination of the understanding of the individual as the one addressed by God, and thereby placed in decision, and the awareness of the inwardness of the decision joined in producing that peculiar kind of responsible, self - conscious individuality which justifies the term «person.»

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

Second, we subdivided the three largest traditions (white evangelicals, mainliners, and Catholics) into «modernist» and «traditionalist» categories, using combinations of beliefs, behaviors, and belonging peculiar to each tradition.

◆ A hit with the tourists, the Royal Pavilion must rank as the most peculiar of royal palaces with its unlikely combination of Indian - inspired domes and Chinese designs.

Valerenic acid is a sesquiterpene responsible for the herb's peculiar smell and, in combination with its derivatives (mainly hydroxyvalerenic acid), is believed to be primarily responsible for the sedative effect of the roots.

This combination of lackluster hardware with top - notch content and cloud services put the Fire in the peculiar spot of changing the definition of what a low - price tablet can and should be, while still leaving me unfulfilled and waiting for the Kindle Fire 2.

Subverting these existing modalities of definition and communication, and contesting the desensitizing allure that prevails in mass culture, Liu organizes her content in ironic pairings and peculiar combinations, prompting the viewer to observe closely and ponder curiously.

But whereas Stella, in the 80's, would famously become ever more frenetic in his mixed - media approach, Smith stays with cooler and quite distinctively peculiar new colour combinations set off against each other with an altogether subtler energy and lightness of touch.

It was the kind of peculiar color combination that you might see, but not normally in clothing.