Sentences with phrase «peculiar manner»

The phrase "peculiar manner" means a unique or distinct way of doing something that is different from what is considered normal or ordinary. Full definition
The idea of detached bodies floating in space, of different sizes and densities, perhaps of different colors and temperatures, and surrounded and interlarded with wisps of gaseous condition, and some at rest, while others move in peculiar manners, seems to me the ideal source of form.
The name is pronounced in an extremely peculiar manner as well, «Sha - hn».
That man, Tom Chaney, is played in a most peculiar manner by Josh Brolin.
By 1932, their flagship Barnes & Noble store on Fifth Avenue was selling books of all kinds, though in a somewhat peculiar manner.
The direct evidence consists of what Whitehead himself tells us, first, about how his books are meant to be read and understood, about the genesis of his ideas, and about modifications in his views; and second, about the nature of his thinking, about his difficulties in translating his thoughts into words, about the sources of his philosophical terminology, and about the peculiar manner in which he composed his books.
To our surprise it was the second control group — the rats we had not handled at all — that behaved in a peculiar manner.
Scars that have healed in a peculiar manner can also be augmented using various surgical and nonsurgical procedures.
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