Sentence examples for altogether peculiar from inspiring English sources

I've met so many amazing and inspiring kids under that roof, some of whom are currently involved in music, film, literature, art or something else altogether peculiar.

It's too peculiar.

Altogether these peculiar properties most likely reflect the particular history of Steins, in particular the impact that created the largest crater, Diamond, and extensively damaged the "original" Steins.

SPECIAL elections are peculiar beasts.

Then their quotations diverge: Shenk goes on to describe the "secret sorrow" that the tribesman saw in Lincoln's features; Goodwin relates Tolstoy's comment that Lincoln's "supremacy expresses itself altogether in his peculiar moral power and in the greatness of his character".

Stop altogether?

Altogether the scene was somewhat peculiar, at least to Captain Delano, nor, as he saw the two thus postured, could he resist the vagary, that in the black he saw a headsman, and in the white, a man at the block.

It is our peculiar felicity to be altogether unconnected with the causes which produce this menacing aspect elsewhere.

With Jason Statham winning plaudits in cinemas for the impressively peculiar Hummingbird, Parker (2013, EOne, 15) finds him treading an altogether more familiar road.

Lincoln was firmly against extending slavery in the territories, but did not seek at first to eradicate the "peculiar institution" altogether.In his first inaugural address, Lincoln quoted from an earlier speech, in which he had said: "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists.

Why peculiar?