Sentence examples for a peculiar effect from inspiring English sources

The spoken words had a peculiar effect.

Waitrose does have a peculiar effect on the middle classes.

But the phrase "grammar schools" has a peculiar effect on the political classes.

We made it through that first day, though the intensity of it all had a peculiar effect.

But skipping a day has a peculiar effect: these stacks seem far less authoritative all of a sudden — less like the paper and more like plain paper.

They have a peculiar effect on the human mind, inducing us to incur further costs rather than give up the money or time already spent.

The current review offers an overview of the peculiar effect of the bio-based raw component on different coating properties, a characteristic that we like to call the "bio-touch".

In "Windows", two artists find themselves the subject of a new and unwelcome window tax that deprives them of natural light and compels one of them to undertake a mammoth project - painting a slab of plywood to recreate the peculiar effect of window glass, "a steaming liquid that has been frozen into a solid plane".

At the same time, the Russian attacks had the peculiar effect of facilitating a unity of commiseration among the moderate opposition.

Though some dismissed "Vexations" as a private punch line, its singularly peculiar effect has led many historians to speculate about its origins.

A mechanistic picture that explains this peculiar effect is proposed.