Sentences with phrase «peculiar things like»

What wasn't to love about the quirky decade that gave us amazingly peculiar things like Salute Your Shorts, Pogs, MMMBop, and

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Even to him, taking a part - time position to pay down more of his debt seemed like a peculiar thing to do as a Harvard MBA with a six - figure management job at a Fortune 50 company.

Don't feel like you have to attack peculiar things which you have no understanding of and is of no significance to you.

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.

Another thing that separates something great like John Wick from something like Kingsman is that the action sequences in Kingsman, while undeniably kinetic and occasionally fun, are computer - engineered into a peculiar surreality.

From the book jacket: Kate Martinelli has seen her share of peculiar things as a San Francisco cop, but never anything quite like this: an ornate Victorian sitting room straight out of a Sherlock Holmes story — complete with violin, tobacco - filled Persian slipper, and gunshots in the wallpaper that spell out the initials of the late queen.

They've got things in their heads like Kylie Minogue songs, which Ma has brought from the old civilization, but what they've come up with is a strange kind of island culture, island religion, and a peculiar (occasionally pidgin) form of English.

To make that happen, add peculiar pet habits to the list of questions you need to ask at the meet and greet and during the adoption process to avoid things like the story above.

That art does peculiar things to people — like convincing Labour councillors to support a Margaret Thatcher statue in Grantham, and Tories to oppose it

Those are all things you can do at home — tasks like sweeping or ironing — it's just that in this case they're done to black canvases, paying tribute to grief and mourning, but not to something specific... It's a manifestation of an attitude, which is larger than one's own self... Right now it seems that in many parts of the world — or everywhere, even — there is a shroud of darkness... There is always a story under the surface, and those stories are often quite peculiar; they have a strange way of manifesting themselves.»