But on most of these songs he recalls no one so much as Missy Elliott, who also works the eccentric edges of hip-hop, using dashes of sexual whimsy and a keen gift for rhythmically savvy melodies.
The specimens with eccentric and edge columns are those having geometrical eccentricity and whose results are compared with those obtained for specimens with central column to study the effect of column eccentricity.
The first group included three control specimens with central, eccentric, and edge columns, respectively.
Experimental results demonstrated that the flexural ultimate load carrying capacity increased by 33%, 37% and 67% for the tested specimens with central, eccentric, and edge column, respectively, when strengthened using CFRP sheets.
Their fashion, on the whole, was loud, eccentric, occasionally edging towards the insane.
She is a bit like the cool aunt you never had: a little eccentric around the edges, perhaps, but warm, smart and fiercely devoted to the cause.
Jon Pareles of The New York Times described Bad as being a "gleaming, high-tech dance record that's just a little eccentric at the edges".
A pricklier tone and a quicker pace to her rejoinders, coupled perhaps with some eccentric mannerisms to give edge to the role, would make Addy a more compelling character.
When he writes that, many years ago, Roudnitska told Ellena, his young admirer, to visit only when his clothes no longer stank of washing powder, you sense a fascinating world – rivalrous and eccentric – hovering at the edges of the page.
Mix is kept on edge by his eccentric landlady, who also has an intriguing connection to Christie.
