Sentences with phrase «quite peculiar»

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.

Alas, the «extensive literature on attribution» is quite peculiar to climate science, which indulges in singular claims on evidentiary bases that would not be acceptable in any serious science.

Being an environmentalist who is a pro-nuclear advocate is quite peculiar.

«The paintings are genuinely quite peculiar objects that I don't think could have come about another way.»

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.»

Well, the beginnings were quite peculiar, because my parents could not believe I was leaving home to make games until I started packing.

The games are quite peculiar, and most of them are meant for two players.

One thing to note about this particular breed and which does sound quite peculiar is that they have paws similar to a cat.

One aspect of self - publishing that really ruffles me up — and it does so because it hurts all independent authors — is the oddball writer who has quite a peculiar vision of what entails publishing, being read, and the care and sweat -LSB-...]

The weirdest, most wonderful insight into unique creativity was Mike Brook's Something Quite Peculiar: The Life and Times of Steve Kilbey, a bittersweet profile of the enigmatic frontman of cult band The Church.

Gameplay mechanics are still exemplary, mixing together FPS and adventure game, and the setting is quite peculiar.

These spaces have quite peculiar properties.

Negative matter is quite peculiar because it is lighter than nothing.

He said: «What it seems happened, and we are investigating that at the moment, is somebody along the way put up what was essentially meant to be an example of the kind of advice we give and ended up going out as a quote which was quite peculiar and quite wrong.

Gets himself in quite a peculiar shape halfway through, doesn't he?

This isn't real at the end of the day so emphasising the word «wrestler» like it's meant to mean more than everything else put together is quite peculiar to me.

Baked them last night, and had one this morning along with my fruit breakfast... and i have to say, they were quite peculiar the taste... can't really decide what to make of it,....

For while Christianity did contribute its mite to the formation of Europe, it did so in quite a peculiar way.

The conceptions which the saints have of the loveliness of God, and that kind of delight which they experience in it, are quite peculiar, and entirely different from anything which a natural man can possess, or of which he can form any proper notion.»

This review would, I hope you agree, be quite peculiar.

They were incidental to a quite peculiar situation, unprecedented and unrepeatable.

Not exact matches

Amazon may be singular but perhaps not quite as peculiar as it claims.

I know what it is to be the peculiar, different one, the one that doesn't quite fit in, the one who decides that he must go his own way.

The promiscuous position - taking of documents such as «Political Responsibility» is quite unwarranted by any peculiar competence of bishops or church bureaucracies.

Indeed, some quite competent Whitehead scholars have written as if the natures of God were distinguishable parts each with its own peculiar functions.

On the one hand the New Testament is an historical document relating to a long - vanished past, with its own peculiar concepts and images, its problems and solutions, its doubts, needs, and troubles, its hopes, consolations and promises, all of which are quite different from our own.

This depends upon there being a brain, an arrangement of cells in a particular part of the body which by reason of its peculiar coordination makes the given routing able to «know» in a distinctively human manner — quite different from, although certainly continuous with, the sort of «knowing» that is possible for the higher grades of animal life.

Thus the individual essence of turquoise blue is quite aloof from the relational essence of turquoise blue and can characterize the specific definiteness of a particular actual entity without involving necessarily the specific individual essence of any particular geometrical shape, though through its relational essence it does specify the range, and the «how» relationship, of all possible geometrical figures, x1, x2,... x11, which have the requisite status to possibly merge with that individual essence turquoise blue in constituting the complex synthesis of forms which is the peculiar, concrete definiteness of an individual actual entity.

But, for the contemporary world, it was heresy of the first order, such, in fact, as to set the Hebrews off as a peculiar people in a sense quite different from what their own thinkers boasted.

Would we not therefore do better to keep the ultimate structure of grace and forgiveness quite apart from the medical and psychological problems peculiar to certain persons?

The symbolization of a reunified mankind was not just pious talk in early Christianity, but a quite important way of conceptualizing and dramatizing the Christians» awareness of their peculiar relationship to the larger societies around them.

Though Carlo Ancelotti's initial team selection was a little peculiar and didn't quite gel, and though his attacking line of Arjen Robben, Robert Lewandowski, and Kingsley Coman weren't always in tune with one another, the energy and class of Renato Sanches and Joshua Kimmich kept Bayern in control for the first half.

But in 10 - 15 years of following transfer rumours on the internet I can't remember coming across many that were quite as peculiar as this one.

This is simply not the case, those with ringworm simply have a fungal type of skin problem that causes these peculiar round red lesions, they are quite characteristic of ringworm — look at the picture, do you recognize it if you look at your itchy skin lesion?

However, the areas that had the bright lights and signs I was thinking of were quite crowded... and the side streets were very peculiar.

You look for the touches — the frayed hem, the hit of peculiar colour (funny how baby blue can look quite threatening), or the ruffles spiralling on the bias around the body — that add a little shiver to the illusion.

It was quite typical B - movies, not conceding the early Mexican horror films with their peculiar atmosphere and, if not that original, but, nevertheless, fascinating plots.

Smite is a peculiar and accessible MOBA, whose gameplay is quite suitable to a gamepad.

The same could be said about this ambitious and thoughtful film that might not quite know its bounds when it comes to how far it can go within the construct of its own peculiar universe, but like Allie Fox himself, we admire the effort, if not the methods to the madness.

But the ending where rooster rides off with mattie was kind of peculiar and took away some of the earlier gritty realism and I wonder if that was a deliberate move on the directors part from matties perspective possibly to suggest a feeling of being far - off and not quite all there as she completes her journey in a half - conscious state.

We never quite see these characters as real people, their situations as authentic, and even taking their peculiar interactions as metaphoric, it never rises above its mundane, simplistic tendencies to be that intricate, spellbinding tapestry Niccol seems to be going for.

As for the film, while the exact plot is not quite known just yet, as it is based on the video game of a similar name, it could be something like a «peculiar talking Pikachu who, despite not being as powerful and nimble as other Pikachu of his kind, is rather intelligent and claims to be a great detective,» who one encounters a boy named Tim Goodman, who is able to understand what Pikachu is saying.

Characters are also quite detailed, especially the recruitable companions, who all have peculiar traits that make them instantly recognizable.

They are two peculiar cultures, and where they meet is even more peculiar — a rather messy and often quite lively place.

Another peculiar feature of diesels is that they make quite a bit of noise, even from a four - cylinder engine.

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.

Here at KYM, we were actually quite intrigued by this squarish handset's peculiar charms while it was still a leaky rumour, and we couldn't wait to get to grips with it to see if it lived up to our expectations.

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.»

It may not have quite the same resonance as William Goldman's infamous line about the movie business — «nobody knows anything» — but Carolyn Reidy's comment, made at a recent Book Industry Study Group meeting held in New York, that «the more we know, the more we have to learn» is an excellent reminder that, as the redoubtable chief executive of Simon & Schuster Inc also noted, publishing has its own «peculiar logic».

The pace of the combat seems to be stuck in this peculiar middle - ground, as if they couldn't quite commit to the action - based gameplay.