Sentences with phrase «something peculiar about»

There is something peculiar about seeing a historical figure (a crazy dude, driven mad by gout and lead poisoning) represented as an anime girl represented on a boob - mouse pad.

The Planty: Take a look at a map of Kraków, and you might notice something peculiar about the shape of the Old Town.

While testing that idea, the researchers noticed something peculiar about cancerous cells that had been removed from leukemia patients and were growing in lab dishes.

«It is still too early to say if this is due to our new observational technique or if there is something peculiar about the quasars in our sample.

While studying systems design engineering at the University of Waterloo, Baker noticed something peculiar about the dot - com boom then underway.

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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.

There was something very peculiar about him.

There is no theory of God, just a peculiar hope of some people that there is something about the Universe that knows they are here and cares about them.

Such problems may include «excessive affective dependency,» disproportionate aggression, incapacity to be faithful to obligations, incapacity for openness and trust, inability to cooperate with authority and confused sexual identity...» Of course all that is true; but wouldn't half an hour with a candidate over a pint tell most of us whether there is something about him that's a bit peculiar?

A few of the writers and prophets of the Old Testament noticed something very peculiar about God's actions toward those people who cursed Him.

To understand what he is talking about, one needs to know something of the issue at stake in the whole letter, the problems in the Galatian churches to which it is sent, the peculiar meanings words like «law» have for Paul, and similar matters of historical understanding.

Reyes, who is running against Eric Ulrich in a Republican Primary, noticed something very peculiar about Ulrich's visit to National Night Out Against Crime, he had a criminal in tow.

But something peculiar and fascinating happens to the patient: When the therapy is over everything about the person — memories, priorities, the sense of self — comes back.

Then in 2015, Citizen scientists analyzing the data noticed something very peculiar about WTF's brightness.

There is something especially armour - like about heavily polished, curated looks, however, something impersonal and impenetrable that has its own peculiar appeal (though it runs the danger of being completely charmless, even if technically well executed).

How about the cast, led by the terrific Joaquin Phoenix, in a role that seems completely suited to his peculiar, outsidery sensibilities, and Scarlett Johannson as the voice of Her (and yes, it says something for storytelling confidence if you cast Scarlett and don't actually show her)?

What's interesting about Detective Pikachu as a game, apart from the amount of care and effort that's been put into such a peculiar idea, is the way it visualises a world filled with pokémon in something close to a realistic fashion.

We started, though, with something remarkable about Stanton as an actor, the peculiar light that shines from his eyes, despite being situated beneath a heavy brow.

What's more, Dano, Cusack and company bring their peculiar characters to life and leave us with something to think about, long after the credits start rolling.

There is something even more peculiar about our species than all these things, and that is this: we are the only species on the planet that can not be fully explained by Charles Darwin's otherwise faultless theory of evolution by natural selection.

My goal is to create pieces that reflect the peculiar nature of dogs and their behavior (and sometimes you might see something about humans too).

In the writer's words, Moulène's recent work «allows one to think about both peculiar and important forms of empathy — not a kindly, gentle thought about how someone else might feel; but an attempt to get inside something violent or difficult or alien in the only ways that are available to you.»

I find the global warming arguments extremely compelling, but I notice something peculiar — that we seem to forget that long before «AGW» became a common topic, we saw many causes for alarm over the downside of doing so little to hedge our bets about energy sources, and back then we had little concept of the potential of China, e.g., to match and raise our own carbon fuel appetite.

There's something... funny (both «peculiar» and «ha ha») about a Lord Justice Jackson and a Lady Justice Black opining on a tool that they'd be better off asking their charlady about.

There's something very peculiar about the OnePlus 5 flagship that OnePlus will launch at some point in the coming weeks.