Sentence examples for human idiosyncrasy from inspiring English sources

Watkins was expert at human idiosyncrasy and character.

Sometimes in the novellas there's a danger that the schematic will overwhelm the free play of human idiosyncrasy, leaving us with something that feels glib and contrived.

Biro's single genius is his awareness of this human idiosyncrasy and his ability to exploit that characteristic of the art-world élite.

What makes "Utopia" such indispensable theater is Mr. Stoppard's full-hearted embrace of the flux and chaos of history, along with his youthful delight as a student of human idiosyncrasy.

To Koosha, sounds have their own weight, color, geometry, texture and human-like idiosyncrasies.

What's lacking is the human passion and idiosyncrasy that would set fire to all this theatrical tinder.

Anna Karenina, Prince Myshkin, Emma Bovary, Gustav von Aschenbach are human characters with idiosyncrasies and individuality – but their tales are complicated by the presence in them of impersonal myths.

As the strategic calculus shifts to territory won or lost and casualties suffered, a new idiosyncrasy in human decision making appears: our deep-seated aversion to cutting our losses.

For one thing, like Darwinism itself, it posits that characters operate from a small set of shared drives -- whereas novels interest us because they emphasize the idiosyncrasy of human behavior.

Chekhov and Dostoyevsky taught her the idiosyncrasies of human behaviour, Rilke filled the emptiness that religious faith could not.

But winning a board game is a trivial task compared with understanding the complexities and idiosyncrasies of human speech.