At the beginning of a word and between vowels, there is also an aspirated h, which was once common but has become peculiar to the northern dialects.
But I noticed that whenever the workings of the company came under discussion the language became peculiar and contorted, as if something were being hidden.
You can hear the North Dakota boy in his voice everywhere in this book, but especially when he writes, "When things become peculiar, frustrating and strange, I think it's a good time to start painting".
The heartbreak at the core of this supremely entertaining novel is the way "that" becomes "this", the way that gorgeous young girls become peculiar old women, and the way that the next generation - Polly's twins, Calypso's Hamish, Max and Monika's horrible Pauli - cannot know, nor care quite enough, about their parents and their extraordinary lives and loves.
Other nonballet movements — one man landing out of the blue on another man's neck and staying there (oddly comic), or a man running backward around the stage in decelerating and decreasing circles (an absorbing minimalist effect) — become peculiar strokes of poetry.
The pet serpent becomes a peculiar character in its own right, its reptilian coolness and shedding of skin reflecting Bekim's progressive loss of his own warmth.
The use of the artificial child's voice becomes downright peculiar when he's picked up (in both senses) by a flirtatious young female driver; at such times the narrative promises to take off, but never actually does.
Suggested by Skoolyad A product of the surreal chemistry between director Michel Gondry and Charlie Kaufman, who co-wrote the script, the beach becomes a peculiar hinterland, shorn of its usual hedonistic connotations.
If 'imagination' is understood in its root sense of image-making and we see imagination not as opposed to but as part of perception, then Kant's choice of term becomes less peculiar.
The large arms of the sea around Manhattan would become increasingly peculiar but hardly felicitous.
