Sentence examples for eccentric by from inspiring English sources

CHRISTINA, QUEEN OF SWEDEN: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric, by Veronica Buckley.

Mr. Severs was an English eccentric by choice, not by birth.

Even by those standards, however, Dr Penrose's ideas are regarded as a little eccentric by his fellow cosmologists.

The orbit is forced to be slightly eccentric by a gravitational resonance between Io and the Jovian moon Europa.

Apparently my great grandmother was always cutting things out of newspapers and was viewed as an eccentric by her children.

Here, too, the layout is eccentric by modern standards: the state bedroom adjoins the drawing room, and it was apparently quite normal to entertain visitors from your bed.

I'm old enough to remember when classmates and friends who were "different" were ridiculed by some but accepted as more or less charming eccentrics by most.

The richest man in the world?" What Grey Gardens does quite brilliantly is to present these two wild women at face value and then reveal them as they are: thoroughbred eccentrics, by no means as crazy as they look.

And when extraordinary things are done in unison, not just by one eccentric but by a large group, the effect is amplified.

What's your name?'" · Photographs taken from English Eccentric Interiors, by Miranda Harrison, published by Wiley Academy at £34.99.

It seems to be packed with videos about games, all of them accompanied by a slightly eccentric commentary by two young men.