Sentence examples similar to exactly peculiar from inspiring English sources

"They were just peculiar women".

Writing in Kid from the start (once I had figured out exactly what peculiar dialect of age-five-but-hyper-educated Kid he would start) was what helped me invent not only what thoughts would occur to Jack but what their zigzag sequence of association would be.

And another question to go with that: what exactly is its peculiar attraction?

Since Jay-Z is also the president and C.E.O. of Def Jam, it is a peculiar, if not exactly unprecedented, event (Herb Alpert co-founded A&M records in 1962 and had hits on the label throughout the decade).

It is important to investigate the consolidation processes exactly, which are connected with peculiar properties of the sintering of nanoparticles with a small grain size and high specific surface area.

In the introduction to this same volume, Russell Goodman offers a more measured, less pessimistic assessment that gets Cavell's peculiar professional status exactly right: "Cavell occupies a curious position in all the fields in which he works: he is at the same time a major figure and one whose work people do not quite know how to use" (p. 3).

Its institutional status is peculiar: It isn't exactly part of the executive branch, but it isn't exactly independent, either.

Wild talk of the "Fourth Reich" is so peculiar, because it is exactly the fear of being too authoritarian that leads to half-solutions and unworkable ideals like Tuesday's agreements.

And where exactly do they come from, these peculiar objects we call books?

But A(H1N1), in addition to sounding like an affliction peculiar to R2D2, does not exactly trip lightly off the tongue.

HOUSTON — It has been exactly a year since the Giants avoided the peculiar vertigo that has marked their recent history.