Sentence examples for best peculiar from inspiring English sources

Step outside those circles, though, and the timing of their elevation looks at best peculiar, at worst perverse.

They find it at best peculiar, and at worst revolting, to be expected to sit down to a groaning board of Thanksgiving dishes and, more to the point, to eat them smushed together into one big glorious taste — preferably under enough gravy to insure that no food, as it were, sits alone.

In the N.F.L., the Minnesota Vikings may best appreciate the peculiar standards the Patriots now face.

Down in Charleston, S.C., the elite's sense of the best English involved peculiar archaisms like "cam" for "calm" and "gyardin" for "garden".

One of Eddie Cantor's verses best described the peculiar nature of her fame: Take Peggy Joyce With little voice She soon became The nation's choice!

There are so many firms offering similar services that it is becoming more difficult to locate one that offers the services that best suit the peculiar needs of a family.

"The timing of the disclosure, however, is peculiar at best and more likely concerning," he wrote.

One of the best artists of our peculiar moment, Ms. Bove started with appropriation sculptures consisting of shelves displaying worn, carefully chosen paperbacks on often arcane, metaphysical subjects.

Pauli's theory has yet to be completely proven, but it offers one of the best explanations for this peculiar and charming animal's mysterious toilet habits.

Just before the book's climax, Cassandra, sitting in her study one night, tries to summon her best wisdom about her peculiar calling as she looks at a map of Greece: "Naxos, Rhodes, Samothrace.

However, the selectors have made an unavoidably difficult situation worse – especially when World T20s have been played on the sub-continent – by not picking the best players for those peculiar conditions.