Sentence examples for a eccentric from inspiring English sources

It's tempting to conclude that Ellroy merely (1) needed an excuse for Tedrow's conversion to a eccentric form of violent racism and (2) can't pass up the opportunity to pop in an episode of gruesome sadism, one of his specialities.

Next, you pass a folly of a lighthouse -- not a real one; just a goofy imitation to waste money on -- erected by a eccentric peer in the 17th century.

His rags-to-riches story was media catnip and far easier for the public to relate to than a tale about a eccentric woman inspired by a long-forgotten economist and countless iterations by people unknown.

Thus, "Umzabalazo" follows the movement from the perspective of two characters an affluent young man who participates with the protests via his laptop from the comfort of his suburban home, and his 'alter ego,' who takes the form of a eccentric diva prowling the streets of Johannesburg.

This would be expected chronically to result in a eccentric hypertrophic pattern, a condition that we and others [ 15, 17] have found in iron deficient rat hearts.

He was a true gentleman, an eccentric.

Lea is an eccentric – in a good way.

That was an eccentric opinion a half-century ago.

He's an eccentric comedian, a stage comedian.

He was also an eccentric man, a lover of film, theater, music and history.

It is an eccentric monument, a rogue product of vision, compulsion, and superabundant energy.