Sentence examples for Peculiar interest from inspiring English sources

"The extracts I have seen from Charles Ball are certainly highly interesting," she wrote, "and they have a peculiar interest, because an actual living man tells us what he has seen and experienced; while Archy Moore is a skillful grouping of incidents which, we all know, are constantly happening in the lives of slaves.

There are some circumstances which impart to the period of his government a peculiar interest.

Of his earliest years, nothing of peculiar interest presents itself for consideration.

"Insanity is a topic of peculiar interest to me," Gould explained.

To the modern reader acquainted with the psychological discoveries of the 20th century, the self-revelations of his passionate, fitful, brooding spirit are of peculiar interest.

An obese, mysterious and vaguely sinister Professor takes a strong and peculiar interest in the Kid, adding another layer of eeriness to an already deeply chilling novel.

She was acting instinctively, following her particular – and peculiar – interests.

After MGM production head Irving Thalberg's death in 1936, he had no one there to champion his peculiar interests.

And since the Web is a great equalizer, those with peculiar interests can make them seem as compelling as artifacts in the British Museum.

Remembering my own peculiar interests as a child, I've taken to doing literary outings, but not of the going-to-Haworth-like-everybody-else kind.

The center's 24 statues (taken from Congress's collection of two from each state) also testify not to the largest national perspective, but the most particular and peculiar interests.