Sentence examples for eccentric son from inspiring English sources

Its humour and quality – and the hunt for a pygmy hippo by the eccentric son of a Mexican drug lord – ensured it caught their imagination.

Harry Partch (1901-74), theccentricic son of Presbyterian missionaries, became a wanderer in his own country when he embarked on a hobo freight-train trip from California to Chicago in 1941; the result, "U.S. Highball" (Nonesuch), is a journey both to the interior of America and to the interior of his mind.

The eccentric son of the fashion designer Dame Vivienne stopped traffic this time last year by parading a "chain gang" of fetishist models (think leather bondage gear and plenty of whips) through central London to demonstrate against a ban on extreme pornography under the Criminal Justice Act.

Durst, 60, the eccentric son of New York real estate mogul Seymour Durst Seymour Durst, is accused of killing his 71-year-old neighbor, Morris Black, then dismembering the body and throwing it into Galveston Bay in September 2001.

On the cusp of the baby boom, an otherwise ordinary couple named Louise and Minor Carson brought forth into Dallas a trio of peripatetic and eccentric sons.

The eclectic film-maker's last fiction feature was the eccentric My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done in 2009, and he has concentrated on documentaries in recent years, with Cave of Forgotten Dreams, about the Ardèche cave paintings, and Into the Abyss, a study of Texas's death row.

Mirman is the voice of Gene, the eccentric, goofy son, on "Bob's Burgers".

Mack worries about how her husband's desertion will affect her gangly, eccentric teenage son, Buzz (Charles Grounds), but he is mostly concerned with losing his virginity.

The most extraordinary one was his great-uncle Ambros Adelwarth, who was butler, traveling companion, lover (it was said) and doppelg* nger to Cosmo Solomon, the eccentric gambler son of a powerful banking family.

Their father, a self-styled eccentric and the son of Jewish immigrants, was a linguist and English teacher; their mother was an alcoholic homemaker with thespian aspirations.

Both Vincent's "holiday " and the hometown life he leaves behind are filled with eccentric characters:the son who is making a glider to fly over his town;the priest who spies on women the inhospitable Venetian relative posing as a rich man.