Sentence examples for collection of eccentrics from inspiring English sources

Her neighbors are a collection of eccentrics whose physical peculiarities match their quirks of character.

The Unusuals takes its name from the collection of eccentrics manning an otherwise unremarkable Manhattan precinct.

He was funniest, though, when riffing on a collection of eccentrics from Bernice's -- and presumably his own -- family.

Malone sets loose his collection of eccentrics and lets them do their worst, alternately horrified and amused by the varieties of mischief they get up to -- in best Southern tradition, but with a self-consciously modern twist.

Wilensky-Lanford carries the reader along on some of these journeys, from the North Pole to rural Ohio, evoking the lives and characters of a collection of eccentrics that includes a professional archaeologist and a preacher, as well as a Chinese businessman and a British irrigation engineer.

Over the years, its louche and lively collection of eccentrics and exiles included W. H. Auden and his poet boyfriend, Chester Kallman, Carson McCullers, Benjamin Britten, Peter Pears, Jane and Paul Bowles, Oliver Smith, Marc Blitzstein, Richard Wright, and Gypsy Rose Lee.

Eula Biss published a collection of eccentric and well-composed personal essays on race in American life and various other subjects in Notes from No Man's Land.

Her collection of eccentric outfits was growing, she was still into dressing up, and sometimes she would go out socially "in character".

Eyeballs, insects, entrails, body parts, jellyfish and bristling sea urchins come to mind, as does some kind of organic architectural complex or a collection of eccentric "Waterworld" type vessels, both seen from a distance.

There were the whirring machines of a modern glazing factory, juxtaposed with the historic window collection of eccentric Brit Charles Brooking, to show – in Koolhaas's words – how "the window has surrendered to the wall".

Notwithstanding by Louis de Bernières 288pp, Harvill Secker, £12.99 In an afterword to this collection of eccentric short stories – or rather, short stories about eccentrics, for the stories themselves are entirely faithful to the good old-fashioned conventions of the form – Louis de Bernières addresses the nation.