Sentence examples for a peculiar trait from inspiring English sources

Other amateur athletes dream of being better than they are, but a peculiar trait of basement Ping-Pong players is that they think they're better than they are.

I disliked the latter song back then, and even more so now, for McCartney's mixture of cleverness and cloyingness, a peculiar trait that not even the abrasive Lennon could temper.

Mulling that over at their favorite Palo Alto diner, biochemistry graduate student Kathleen Xie mentioned to Cooke a peculiar trait of the budgerigar parrots (Melopsittacus undulatas) she'd raised growing up: wild budgies are green and yellow, but others have been bred since the 19th century to be blue and white – and no one knew exactly how, on a genetic or molecular level, that happened.

Even in war, chaplains are always overly positive – a peculiar trait I've only ever seen replicated on the faces of LA store attendants and quietly suicidal kids' TV presenters.

Thus high stability of PSII supercomplexes appears to be a peculiar trait of P. patens, and is similar to recent results found for Inga sapindoides [41].

These higher indexes, together with URI and TRI, should be interpreted as if Hypnomys possessed relatively more elongated zygopodes than E. q. ophiusae, a peculiar trait of the genus.

But other rare birds were also locally common, including the mysterious six-wired bird of paradise and a new-to-science honeyeater that was voiceless, a most peculiar trait for a songbird.

Furthermore, a major peculiar trait of mitochondrial genome in some bivalve species is the presence of an alternative pattern of mitochondrial inheritance known as Doubly Uniparental Inheritance or DUI [ 16- 20], that involves two separate lineages of mtDNAs.

On further investigation, we found this peculiar trait to be an artifact of the control algorithm and the choice of metric used in the baseline scheme.

A peculiar physical trait of some - maybe a dozen - Fulniô footballers is bent legs.

The study of COMT gene polymorphisms in migraine is intriguing since an impaired catecholaminergic neurotransmission, namely a chronic dopaminergic and noradrenergic hypofunction, is a peculiar migraine trait [1-3].