Sentence examples for Peculiar encounter from inspiring English sources

Both men came across as ill at ease, because perhaps neither of them quite knew the role he should play in this peculiar encounter.

The idea was more to create a peculiar encounter between them, where, when possible, the technical means implemented could be forgotten, to leave space to the spectacle of their confrontation.

It is peculiar to encounter a book half of which was assembled up to 40 years after the rest and not to be able to see any obvious difference in the writing or the writer.

Peculiar people encountered in Washington.

The New Yorker, April 24 , 1943P. 33 Peculiar people encountered in Washington.

By Eugene Kinkead The New Yorker, April 24 , 1943P. 33 Peculiar people encountered in Washington.

But even if that system were in place, it would not have helped in the peculiar circumstances encountered by Mr. Mahmood.

Participants confessed offenses both tawdry and peculiar: "Arranging adulterous encounter" and "[h]ired someone to kill a muskrat that's ultimately not causing any harm" were two examples.

Take, for instance, the peculiar set of encounters that comprise what is now the fifth chapter of Mark.

If you ask the Miser, much of our mania is surely stoked by the peculiar logistical problems encountered when trying to fit millions of people and ever more of their stuff into a limited amount of geographical space.

Analysis of the neural tissue presents unique and peculiar technical problems encountered in everyday bench work.