Sentence examples for a peculiar sort from inspiring English sources

Joyce is a peculiar sort of icon.

Parliament is a peculiar sort of place.

Dressing a man is a peculiar sort of challenge.

Yet it would make a peculiar sort of federation.

Actually it is travel writing of a peculiar sort.

Marasco was looking at a peculiar sort of anatomical map, which showed Mitchell's chest.

It is a historical object of a very peculiar sort.

FELICIANO DOS SANTOS is one of southern Africa's leading musicians, and while he sings beautifully about the usual things — love and longing and sorrow — he is better known in the highland villages near here for catchy lyrics of a more peculiar sort, songs about going to the bathroom and washing your hands when you are done.

Sturtevant says that the Old Norse proper name Tunne (derived from Proto-Norse Tunþē) refers to "a person who is characterized as having some peculiar sort of tooth" and theorizes a Proto-Germanic form of -toskr.

Certified Copy is the deconstructed portrait of a marriage, acted with well-intentioned fervour by Juliette Binoche, but persistently baffling, contrived, and often simply bizarre – a highbrow misfire of the most peculiar sort.

Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian describes the film as an "intriguing oddity", and said, "'Certified Copy' is the deconstructed portrait of a marriage, acted with well-intentioned fervour by Juliette Binoche, but persistently baffling, contrived, and often simply bizarre – a highbrow misfire of the most peculiar sort".