Sentences with phrase «peculiar thing for»

«It's a very weird and peculiar thing for a one - on - one conversation without the attorney general, without warning between the president and me or any United States attorney who has been asked to investigate various things and is in a position hypothetically to investigate business interests and associates of the president,» Bharara said.

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So it seems like anyone who is a Christian should be doing exactly those things, and I am utterly at a loss for why Quakers are peculiar in enacting this strong Christian witness in the world.

One of the things I have respected most in Aida Rosa, principal of the elementary school P.S. 30, and the teachers that I talk with on her staff is that they look at children here as children, not as «distorted children,» not as «morally disabled children,» not as «quasi-children» who require a peculiar arsenal of reconstructive strategies and stick - and - carrot ideologies that wouldn't be accepted for one hour by the parents or the teachers of the upper middle class.

The qualities of an individual, «however permanent [and peculiar] they may be, neither help nor hinder its individual existence... they are but accidents, that is to say, they are not involved in the mode of being of the thing; for the mode of being of the individual thing is existence; and existence lies in opposition merely» (1.458).

Israel did regard herself as the peculiar trustee of a unique faith and conceived the protection of that faith from contamination and the propagation of it to the world as her duty, and so, thinking of her religion as a greenhouse in which to grow priceless things for later transplanting to the larger field of the world, she endured indescribable suffering on behalf of her heritage.

Will not the bookseller say: My dear child, your toy is not worth anything; it is true that when you still had the money you could have bought the book instead of the toy, but a toy is a peculiar kind of thing, for once it is bought it loses all value.

«A family, no less than a State, is, as We have said, a true society, governed by an authority peculiar to itself... provided, therefore, the limits which are prescribed by the very purposes for which it exists be not transgressed, the family has at least equal rights with the State in the choice and pursuit of the things needful to its preservation and its just liberty.

Because of his peculiar talent for doing the right thing as often, or more often, than the wrong thing, Paul Larson gets enough rope to hang himself.

While searching for dating partners in the comfort of your home as peculiar with online dating, many things could be done wrong which possibly could make your search stressful and boring or worse, exposes you to awful online dating experience.

Two things that don't always go together are war and comedy but leave it to writer / director John Boorman to bring the two together in a package that even I, someone who has peculiar comedic tastes and generally doesn't care for war movies, enjoyed.

But I watched it anyway and discovered the most peculiar thing: a Christian film made almost specifically for non-Christians.

, he him her, Hell Or High Water, Hello My Name is Doris, into the inferno, JACK REACHER: NEVER GO BACK, Jackie, keanu, la la land, lion, loving, manchester by the sea, midnight special, Miss Hokusai, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, moana, moonlight, neon demon, Rogue One, star wars, stranger things, suicide squad, Sully, Swiss Army Man, the lobster, The Music of Strangers, the nice guys, the witch

It's all played for laughs but in reality it's plum revolting, and while Vaughn and frequent collaborator Jane Goldman's (Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children) try to soften things by making Eggsy ambivalent about the task at hand, if anything this only acerbates that grotesque nastiness of the situation a substantial degree.

This man isn't looking for any particular thing; rather, it seems he's looking for every beautiful, peculiar, or haunting piece of art that has ever graced the pages of a book.

We've known this peculiar... thing was on its way for a while, getting a close look at the vehicle in its concept guise in Los Angeles.

Just this sort of thing happened to Keith from Nashville, who was in the market for a Ford Fiesta ST and came across a very peculiar example on a local dealer's website.

But the odd thing about Fujino is that his daydreams are starting to revolve around a peculiar fetish for hands — specifically, the sleek, beautiful hands of his classmate and tutor, Takie.

If you've no head for heights a fear of confined spaces, an aversion to making a fool of yourself, or if the sight of naked Viennese Actionists doing peculiar and insanitary things with rubber tubing or a dead pike is upsetting, get someone else to go instead and make them tell you about it later.

[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».

It showed correlations in Sunspot activity, with beatle - mania, heights of hem - lines for mini-skirts, & a whole host of other things that were at times quite peculiar yet astonishing.

Whether travelers are stuffing Osprey backpacks for a bit of hosteling or packing Louis Vuitton suitcases for some five - star resorting, the last thing on their minds are the laws peculiar to where they are heading.

While many iOS apps are now well optimized for the larger screen of the 7 Plus, there remain a few peculiar instances where things just don't seem to make sense on a 5.5 - inch display.

Original story: So here's an interesting thing, if you're an Insider using Windows 10 Mobile on the Fast Ring, checking for updates might land you with a peculiar update tagged «Localization for English».