Sentences with phrase «rather idiosyncratic»

The final book is a rather idiosyncratic list of texts consulted — all of the references to which clutter up the book's index.

So I would say that what you saw in Harvard - Westlake and Seattle was the result of rather idiosyncratic routes to excellence that should, of course, be expanded as much as possible, but is unlikely to produce the two million expert teachers we need in the United States.

In any case, I do not think others should read too much into my rather idiosyncratic experiences.

Not exact matches

Rather, it's nuanced and idiosyncratic.

«Our expectation is for pockets of volatility on an idiosyncratic basis around these events, rather than a wholesale sea change of volatility,» said Ben Robins, portfolio specialist at T. Rowe Price.

They add, rather ominously, While the initial shift into «Slowdown» (which we first noted in October) had a fairly idiosyncratic flavor, the recent growth deceleration now looks more serious than in previous months.

He surveys Catholic literature from the end of Vatican II to the present and finds dynamic writers with «personal visions of faith fueled by idiosyncratic passion rather than orthodoxy.»

Rather, he condemned the mobs for trying to institute cultic theocracies based on their idiosyncratic and often violently repressive readings of scripture.

The salient (and wise) crux of the piece seems to elude you: that hatred, bigotry, and intolerance, aren't the idiosyncratic expressions of the random few, but rather in line with patterns of culture and history.

The fourth definition is «the doctrines, opinions, or way of thinking of an individual, class, etc.» I used the term «ideology» in its usual, dictionary sense rather than in Strauss» idiosyncratic usage.

I am sorry that he sometimes appears a bit rough or idiosyncratic but I would rather have someone with brains than someone who is showy but has no substance.

Yet McDormand's so warm, so idiosyncratic, that Marge never comes across as a kooky scold; she makes the woman's carved - from - marble personality traits seem an outgrowth of Marge's worldview rather than a grab - bag of eccentricities.

Underneath that, the principal found idiosyncratic instruction pegged to textbooks and teacher interests rather than to the current state standards or the newly adopted Common Core standards.

If you plan to sell in just a few years, choose features that make the home resalable rather than idiosyncratic.

It's rather «an idiosyncratic proposal of completely reversing your relationship to nature — playing on this idea that nature is something that we control,» she says.

Each artist in the exhibition works though certain media tropes, which are neither appropriated nor directly quoted, but rather percolate within the subconscious and manifest in highly idiosyncratic forms.

In other words, they construct the world they experience, making sensory information idiosyncratic and / or socially oriented rather than accurate, and people's perception of their world an ongoing film or performance.

The 2011 Brooklyn College MFA Thesis Exhibition resembles a memory palace, in that it is idiosyncratic rather than unified and endeavors to make a virtue of this heterogeneity.

Rather than a comprehensive history of art and culture in the New York area, 5 Year Review will instead reflect the idiosyncratic nature of individual taste and memory as recommended by an invited group of fellow curators and critics.

That is, they don't have a common generative point of progression, in contrast to Martin's grids, but rather allow momentary excursions that are idiosyncratic, however subtlety and unobtrusive.

But although his concerns were part of a larger dialogue in painting that was going on in France at that time, he was something of a unique figure unto himself, similar to Robert Ryman here, a painter with concerns rather too idiosyncratic to really provide a direction, more simply marking a point where a number of problems cluster and are addressed in an interesting way.

Typical of his rather solemn, idiosyncratic experiments from this period, the work features a grimy New York sky above cartoon bottles, red - brick walls, and shapes reminiscent of Guston's earlier Ku Klux Klan — type profiles.

Rather than exploring the idiosyncratic aesthetic of Queerness, the dominant ideological narrative suggests that this genre is solely concerned with behavior stereotypically attributed to a «queer lifestyle.»

I also suspect that we would all rather have Tamino apply his time to the statistics he does so well and not waste his time on an idiosyncratic administrative bug at his site.

When I first heard the term «portfolio career», I was delighted to have a rather dignified description applied to my somewhat idiosyncratic working life.

Some authors have argued that the nature of the child's disorder is not important in determining its psychological consequences, because children with chronic physical disorders face common life experiences and problems based on generic dimensions of their conditions, rather than on idiosyncratic characteristics of any specific disease entity (e.g., Stein & Jessop, 1982).

This study reports on a different cohort of patients from Bologna who received an idiosyncratic and rather eclectic form of CBT which included advice on lifestyle changes and a form of «well being therapy.»

For example, if one spouse has difficulty planning ahead, while the other enjoys creating itineraries for daily life, they can balance each other out as long as these idiosyncratic behaviors are accepted rather than maligned.