The anchor pointed out his marked resemblance to a grown-up Tintin (a fine example of the peculiar phenomenon of scholars coming to resemble their subjects over time, as owners do their dogs), and it was a comparison he seemed happy to take as a compliment.
Fear of this battlestation.'"I realise this was a tongue-in-cheek dialogue, but it seems an example of the peculiar American propensity for hyperreality that no one in the discussion stopped to consider that "Star Wars" is fictional, and that the only thing it can be expected to reveal is the nature of its American creators' and audience's conceptions of warfare and politics.
The final ten lines of Frost at Midnight were chosen by Harper in 1928 as the "best example of the peculiar kind of blank verse Coleridge had evolved, as natural-seeming as prose, but as exquisitely artistic as the most complicated sonnet".
But for an example of the particular and peculiar kind of injustice by which the music business is riven, one need only compare the relative renown of Greg Jacobs and Tupac Shakur.
Beautifully written, Gomorrah is an example of that peculiar Neapolitan genre, the "essay-novel".
The first Globe, based on the skeleton of the original Theatre of 1576, was unique not just as the most famous example of that peculiar and short-lived form of theatre design but because it was actually the first to be built specifically for an existing acting company and financed by the company itself.
Another unsettling example of this peculiar interweaving of national and commercial interests is a spot from the New York office of McCann-Erickson, part of the McCann-Erickson Wofld Group division of the Interpublic Group of Companies, for the Travel Industry Association of America.
The EcoReco M3 is not the first motorised kick scooter, but it is doubtless one of the more capable and finely crafted examples of this peculiar animal – and, at $999 in the US, one of the more expensive.
Fig. 2 Almost 11,500 poorly constrained or phantom seismic events (1964 1979) have been removed from the ISC Bulletin as part of the Rebuild project, for example, note the peculiar arc of non-tectonic nature, starting at the mid-Atlantic ridge and continuing from South-West to North-East Africa, through the Arabian peninsula, Himalayas, South-East Asia, Indonesia and as far as New Zealand.
Additional genomes from ecologically diverse diatoms will bear these issues out and show, for example, whether the peculiar evolutionary histories of T. pseudonana and P. tricornutum account for some portion of the unusually large genomic divergence between the two species [ 6].
It was a classic example of the way Brand approached the peculiar assignment he accepted when he became the fourth N.C.A.A. chief in 2003.
