Sentences with phrase «peculiar sort»

Award - winning and bestselling author Neil Gaiman sums it up pretty perfectly: «Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.»

He is free to administer his peculiar sort of grace, whether we hear or refuse to hear.

In other words, an actual occasion experiences a peculiar sort of dying: it passes into God's memory as an immortal object for future experience.

You are a peculiar sort — happiest when sticking the knife in or ridiculing.

In a peculiar sort of way, Chelsea achieved the feat of slipping under the radar, somewhat, as they bestrode England's top - flight last season.

It was a peculiar sort of lunge, though: The animal looked up when the lure was held below and down when it was dangled overhead.

At the heart of new research into proteins, dark matter, and particle physics is a peculiar sort of ripple that defies all expectations — a wave that doesn't wave.

Maybe if I'd stayed with it longer... but I was getting this peculiar sort of face ache.

These koala - virus hybrids are the result of a peculiar sort of infection.

She is, as Tuff recognizes, disappointed, but she is also a perfect product of her time, turning her anger into Bundt cakes even as the movie turns her distress into a peculiar sort of antic melodrama.

Pikachu is a species of Pokemon, while Detective Pikachu the character is a peculiar sort from the Pikachu set, a self - styled investigator who is good at finding things.