Sentences with phrase «rather peculiar»

Still, in spite of the rather peculiar choice of words, this resume example succeeds in conveying enthusiasm and the candidate's personality shines through.

For Android purists, it's a rather gimmicky take on Google's OS, with the standard theme featuring some rather peculiar UI design alterations that in some ways make it feel more like Apple's iOS rather than Android - especially the brightly coloured gradient - heavy app icons.

One area though that was rather peculiar was in regards to Panos Panay's presentation on new Lumias.

is a rather peculiar looking acronym that stands for Interoperability of Data in E-Commerce Systems.

http://initforthegold.blogspot.com/2010/10/judith-curry-born-beyond-shark.html Some rather peculiar logic is displayed here.

PhysicsProf, the document you link is worded and presented in a rather peculiar fashion.

And now Gavin rightly points out that the Klotzbach et al. paper has a rather peculiar and apparently significant booboo, possibly negating the above conclusion on your blog post.

In Spencer and Braswell (2008), and to an even greater extent in his blog article, Spencer tries to introduce the rather peculiar notion of «internal radiative forcing» as distinct from cloud or water vapor feedback.

This news comes at a rather peculiar time when EA and DICE are prepping to launch the eighth gen version of Star Wars: Battlefront II, which runs on DICE's famed Frostbite game engine.

Sadly this lack of any intelligence shows up in the boss battles too; epic fights against Wolverine or Gambit should be a deadly dance of death, but in reality both characters have just a few simple moves at their disposal and have a rather peculiar tendency to attack absolutely nothing, leaving the locked in an attack animation where you can happily batter them black and blue.

There is a rather peculiar video, on said Greek site, in which we get a look at the sleek dock.

Essays.studymoose.com offers a rather peculiar pricing system where writers will bid against one another for your job and then you have to pick which one best suits your quality requirements and budget.

Today we're taking a look at rather peculiar comparison.

Another thing which we found rather peculiar was that the Chevrolet Cruze comes without a clutch rest.

And here we are with the first batch of photos of the Hyundai «s upcoming crossover, the SUV being all wrapped in camouflage and depicting an unusual front fascia with rather peculiar headlights.

It has a double bubble roof and a rather peculiar front fascia with retro headlights and a prominent grille.

For the Nintendo Switch gamers out there, Nintendo will be releasing a rather peculiar yet interesting initiative which involves using cardboard to transform the Switch's Joy Con controllers into a variety of useful accessories.

The cover is rather peculiar in that it combines Satsuki and Mei into one composite character.

He stars in Dogtooth director Yorgos Lanthimos» The Lobster, as a man on a rather peculiar dating retreat.

My history is rather peculiar when it comes to Mega Man.

The set spotlights three movies: «Tokyo Mighty Guy,» starring Akira Kobayashi as a chef who opens a restaurant in the busy Ginza district that brings him women and trouble; «Danger Pays» stars Jo Shishido in a feature about the heist of one billion yen and the various people trying to get the stash; and «Murder Unincorporated» with Shishido in a wild tale about an assassination agency that highlights some rather peculiar killing tactics.

The film didn't really get that warm of a reception at Cannes back in May, and the trailer is edited in a rather peculiar way.

But oh yes, I thought it was rather peculiar that they were different lol.

If you are madly in love coffee and chocolate you might not want to make this lotion or you may end up on the receiving end of some rather peculiar looks as you lick yourself at your desk at work.

So you could say by C.P. Snow's rather peculiar way of looking at the world that I've looked at two of the century's greatest Englishmen.

Clarke says that in his day there would have been a rush of «rather peculiar people» hoping to make a speech.

It was all rather peculiar.

Now, socially, we would think that rather peculiar — to nurse someone else's baby.

At the same time, he must feel a little uncomfortable standing alongside some of the other members of this particular, and rather peculiar, chorus.

I think it's because America has a rather peculiar obsession with retributive justice, and no doubt some of that is connected with our theology that goes back to colonial times, when it was Puritan revivalistic preaching, and some of that bitter fruit is still among us.

«90 Further reflection by Martineau would have led her to realize deficient faith was not the source of difficulty but rather the peculiar political role that must be played by disestablished clergy when they are politically active.

You have, to understate it, a rather peculiar way of referring to the perpetrator of a homicide, a murderer.

When I started getting these e-mails, some years ago now, I thought the question was rather peculiar and I did not take it seriously.

Note also that the bishops «argue» this position, as though it is their rather peculiar opinion and not the magisterial teaching of the Church consistently maintained for two millennia.

If you were to say there's something rather peculiar about chasing money as a means to an end, I could certainly see your point.

Not exact matches

In his book, «How To Eat To Live,» Muhammad outlined a rather detailed and sometimes peculiar set of guidelines for eating, presumably designed to improve health and prolong life.

Types like this typically view Israel and Jews rather fondly, as they fit in with a peculiar apocalyptic credo strongly held by such groups.

I wish rather to call attention to a peculiar aspect of one of the arguments used to support the latter view, since I think it betrays an inadequacy in all current Whiteheadian views which has not been appreciated.

(b) These abilities are guided by interests in God's peculiar ways of being present, interests in them for their own sake rather than for their moral, therapeutic, or redemptive consequences.

They are rather fighting for their peculiar spinning of the Christian script, which actually occurred in the late 1800's.

rather than viewing each individual character or incident as only an instance of some collectivity or trend, is able to see the specific, the novel... the way even the «typical» diverges from type... [and can] recognize the peculiar dialectic between continuity and discontinuity in tradition.

Aristotle is intent on pointing up the difference between conscious perception and the interplay of purely physical forces, i.e., those powers peculiar to bodies as such rather than specifically to sentient bodies.

A man becomes an individual «I,» rather than a peculiar mixture of universal forces or principles, only as he inwardly transcends both emotion and reason, accepting responsibility for the outcome of the struggle between them.

This is a peculiar problem with an organisation that is run by rules rather than operating in grace.

I have found that on occasion I really sympathize with a friend of mine who feels that organizations of people are to be avoided as the plague; but I think that is peculiar of me, probably because I live in a rather close - knit community and sometimes find a «gold - fish» existence somewhat fatiguing.

No need to set our faces sternly against the massive cultural power of the academic and media establishment if we qualify any peculiar practices we retain by the qualification: We're open to change, that is, you progressives may be right» in fact it seems you are, so please excuse our very temporary clinging to old ways here, we're just waiting for the right (that is left) revelation to come along, let's hope sooner rather than later...

New information This unbalanced exposition includes a peculiar and rather controversial division of the different forms of religious life into three main strands: monastic, apostolic and evangelical.

Rather, America took all the offerings of Europe, all the oppressed, the peculiar, the strange, and here they were given an unmolested place to develop.

Jürgen Moltmann has pointed out that one amazing ramification of Christianity's peculiar doctrine of the Trinity is the way it transcends the patriarchalism implicit in Jewish monotheism as well as the matriarchalism implicit in pagan pantheism.49 Using sexual terms in a metasexual rather than a literal, genital, and bodily sense, the feminine dimension of personality refers to the receptive, passive, self - effacing, care - receiving capacity in us all that contrasts with the initiating, aggressive, self - assertive, self - sufficient traits we associate with the masculine dimension.

But how much of these can we claim as our native inventions, rather than merely our peculiar variations on older traditions?