Sentence examples for become eccentric from inspiring English sources

"How easy it would be to become eccentric," another character muses, "to just give up the facade of normalcy and its uniforms, to let yourself go, go wild, to swing out farther and farther away from the center".

One proposal is that interactions between Upsilon Andromedae d and a (now lost) outer planet moved Upsilon Andromedae d into an orbit closer to the star, where it gradually caused the orbit of Upsilon Andromedae c to become eccentric.

We cannot help but notice her sparkle, she is not a warn piece of jewelry that has been dulled by time or become eccentric from a ritualized life forced into a mound of earth, maybe Ms. Adams is too charming.

In particular — so unusual in ballet — the head is suddenly jerked sideways or forwards, so that a step that might otherwise appear classically harmonious if extreme becomes eccentric.

After a while we tend to become slightly eccentric.

Through his vision it would eventually become the eccentric, surreal and romantic garden estate of Little Sparta.

If it survives at all, it will become narrow, eccentric, strident and romantic, like so many other national identities that have been deprived of their states and institutions.

In recent weeks, it has become increasingly eccentric, featuring links to months' old articles, such as one headlined: "Why Bad Ideas Refuse to Die".

Third, you could become an "eccentric," a dandy, like a friend of the narrator, who read lots of books, went around in drag, and earned the status of "madman".

Mr. Hansen went on to become the eccentric experimentalist who dabbled in hip-hop, funk and even Tropicália on seven more major-label studio albums released over the next decade and a half.

Caron is a protégé of Eddie Shore, the fabled Boston Bruins defenseman of the '30s who went on to become an eccentric and tyrannical owner of the Springfield Indians in the A.H.L.