Sentence examples for a peculiar emphasis from inspiring English sources

Mr. Baryshnikov gives these gestures a peculiar emphasis, as if to add, look at me now, remembering all that.

But most of them put a peculiar emphasis on the role of the individual, on being alone even in company, on being independent even when partnering.

Yet a new three-disk box from Criterion, featuring three different versions of the film along with a plethora of extras (including a largely ghostwritten novelization) puts a peculiar emphasis on the film's tangled provenance instead of its extraordinary artistry.

Now and then they do a few other animal movements, some based on Nijinsky's "Faun" choreography, but mainly they jog, and the urgent pulse they maintain against the slow legato lushness of Debussy's famous prelude creates a deliberately peculiar emphasis.

The peculiar emphasis of "A poet could not but be gay, / In such a jocund company" insists that the daffodils are consoling while they are in flower.

Each age will bring its peculiar emphasis, and in the current Austen festival our own anxieties stand fully revealed.

They stain the reader's mind with a peculiar precision, partly because of the lack of conventional dramatic emphasis.

(It's a peculiar car).

What a peculiar expression, methinks.

It was a peculiar afternoon.

"It's a peculiar thing".