McPhee's style rests on images like that, the golden detail rescued in unfussy language, although sometimes he'll land an unexpected, even eccentric word choice – the "histrionisms" of Dr Graebner's dentist patter – like a drop-shot or slice.
Such stipulation does not identify any good reason for anyone to join Humpty Dumpty in his eccentric word usage.
Voynich is not a word from the book but, rather, the name of an eccentric book dealer, Wilfrid Michael Voynich, who bought the manuscript, in 1912.
His poetry was, in his own words, "eccentric".
Alumnae and teachers use the words "eccentric," "unimpressed by wealth" and "the most anti-debutantish of the girls' schools on the East Side" to characterize the school's ethos.
He pauses, selects a new word, "Eccentric".
I took on the word eccentric to describe myself.
His father was a true eccentric, an unabashed word experimenter in his own right.
It's a style that is, to use Amartya Sen's word, "eccentric" and beautiful, and entirely the Bengali middle class's.
The word "eccentric" has dogged British Sea Power since their debut a decade ago; five albums in, that quixotic oddity is more pronounced than ever.
