Sentence examples for a peculiar insistence from inspiring English sources

And there is no doubt that a number of passages in Brodsky seem clumsy, heavy-footed, clotted, with a peculiar insistence on awkward half-rhymes and - the bane of those (such as Nabokov) who become deeply proficient in a new language - crushing puns.

I'd recommend the lunatic, Machiavellian world of The Abbess of Crewe, the perfect sense of period in Girls of Slender Means, the peculiar insistence and spiritual insight of Memento Mori and hopefully Miss Jean Brodie and her girls would go without saying.

Indeed, Johnson would likely not have recognised the modern distinction of "literature" to mean only fiction, a peculiar idiosyncrasy of the contemporary English-speaking publishing industry, with its insistence on genre labels.

(It's a peculiar car).

What a peculiar expression, methinks.

It was a peculiar afternoon.

"It's a peculiar thing".

I felt a peculiar shock.

A peculiar pathos enters in.

It's a peculiar description.

It was a peculiar moment.