His choice of a non-educator, Cathleen Black, as schools chancellor felt idiosyncratic to many people.
At the same time, other images are magnetic exactly because they feel idiosyncratic and deliberately upsetting: They destabilize common standards of normality, ugliness, beauty and privacy.
We want each episode to feel idiosyncratic and diverse.
"It's not like Joe Schmo in suburban St . Louishas a ton of intrinsic, deeply felt, idiosyncratic opinions about the effect of CO2 in the atmosphere," David Roberts, the lead climate columnist at Vox, who has written extensively on political polarization, told me.
If Morris's version of declinism takes in the universe, Niall Ferguson's version, in his new, TV-series-accompanying book "Civilization: The West and the Rest" (forthcoming from Penguin Press; $35), feels oddly idiosyncratic.
Almost all of this – the refusal to date men who like the sea, the fear of wasting the music of Tom Waits on impermanent relationships – feels so idiosyncratic that it could only belong to Suttie, without ever seeming self-conscious.
While the other characters felt richly idiosyncratic, Don was a brand.
Some of his choices are typically poetic ("golden," "wind," "alabaster"), others speak to his scientific temperament ("astrolabe," "terraqueous," "sublunary," "alembic"), and others — the most appealing — feel purely idiosyncratic ("begrime," "diapason," "inspissated").
With their shivering gravity and groping movements, I felt those idiosyncratic chants like they would've resonated through these walls when conjured here hundreds of years ago.
With an eccentric, beguiling blend of detachment and empathy — the camera sometimes lurking like a spy, sometimes trailing along like a shy, devoted friend — Ms. Tsangari observes the curious activities of Marina, a 23-year-old in the midst of an identity crisis that feels both highly idiosyncratic and weirdly familiar.
