Sentence examples for a peculiar force from inspiring English sources

Because he talked so little, his words had a peculiar force; they were not worn dull from constant use.

The prose in "Looking for Lincoln" often has this kind of pedantic fortissimo, but the sustained raking and display of anecdotes and artifacts — an effort that feels almost archeological — has a peculiar cumulative force.

This makes Szirtes sound like a political writer, which in a sense he is, being a concerned, intelligent citizen, but what gives his work its peculiar force is its powerful aesthetic impulse, most obviously in dealing with the visible world, a realm that provokes language without being exhausted by it and which is often silent in the face of enquiry.

It was expressed with peculiar force in the letters of Charlemagne's adviser Alcuin.

Experts tracking Haiyan – the typhoon that would come to be known as the strongest in recorded history – had noted its peculiar force as it whipped up in the south Pacific around Tahiti and barrelled its way west.

The peculiar force of Mr. Poitier's speech lay in suggesting the difficulties he faced in Hollywood as well as the tragedy of all the lost potential, all the black actors and actresses who found neither roles nor recognition in that company town.

All political orders are unique as products of history and creations of the peculiar forces and conditions of their environment.

It is a peculiar form of repertory.