A short story is by definition an odder, more eccentric creature than a novel: a trailer, a fling, a warm-up act, a bouillon cube, a championship game in one inning.
Ms. Schiff writes: A short story is by definition an odder, more eccentric creature than a novel: a trailer, a fling, a warm-up act, a bouillon cube, a championship game in one inning.
But while he was right to place himself in the couture tradition of Chanel and Balenciaga -- here and there with an extravagant sleeve or an evening wrap puffing off the shoulder -- the eccentric creature he was imagining still belongs to another time.
Eccentric creatures speak with the voices of real employees, testifying to camaraderie and mission, promising happiness to all who are prepared to drink deep.
Once a pretty place populated by eccentric creatures, Wonderland is now a dark, dangerous world, filled with monsters and gibbering children, where Alice must fight for her life as she heads toward a showdown with the Red Queen.
Without the focus on buildings and people, New York emerges as a wild place in plain sight, populated by eccentric creatures: Hangman's Elm in Washington Square Park; a Caucasian wingnut in Brooklyn; an eastern cottonwood on Staten Island; an American elm in Central Park, growing from the rocks along Literary Walk like some giant hand reaching skyward out of the earth.
She mentioned the names of a half-dozen eccentric women, birdlike creatures and deities less admired for their beauty than their captivating presence.
After extensive research in the the Coachella party circuit, we identified an eccentric kingdom of creatures inhabiting their natural habitat of lakeside private estates each with their own individual swag and personal connection to the festival.
Under the homogenizing hands of certain doctors, a creature of eccentric charms can be made to look positively plain.
Charles Balth, a Sag Harbor carpenter and contractor, began to make found-object sculpture after his retirement in 1973, when he was 80. His fanciful creatures and eccentric buildings were fashioned primarily from shells and fish bones collected along the shore of Noyac Bay and cemented with a mixture of plaster and glue.
We also find the only known skeleton of Nothronychus graffami, a plant-eating creature that looks as eccentric as its name suggests.
