In a tribute to Renaissance "misfits" like painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo, ceramicist Bernard Palissy, and writer François Rabelais, Curnier Jardin's performance takes the form of singing tableaux vivants, in a humorous and eccentric "journey through the Renaissance".
This eccentric, humorous woman once offered the girl a cigarette after a family meal, making her feel "as free as a visitor at the table".
LONDON — On the morning after the night before, the overwhelming conclusion at home and abroad was that London pulled off a spectacularly quirky, eccentric, humorous and sometimes baffling celebration of Britishness for the opening of the 2012 Olympic Games.
The novel is eccentric, rambling, humorous, touching.
In the work of the artist Jeff Koons, for instance who makes nothing but has things, from kitsch figurines to giant puppies composed of flowers, made for him this postmodern rejection of the handmade or authentic is given a weirdly comic tone, at once eccentric and humorous.
The eccentric and humorous knockout slugger Derrick Lewis picked up his ninth win in ten bouts in a come-from-behind performance against Alexander Volkov, earning him a title shot this month on a card that needed a main event.
Charles is an intelligent, artistic and lonely young man whose mother died in his youth, and whose father is an eccentric and sardonically humorous scholar.
Bentham's (admittedly eccentric and somewhat humorous) ideas about "auto-iconism" can also be understood as an attempt to find a secular substitute for the rituals and practices of conventional religion.
Calloway was an energetic and humorous entertainer whose performance trademarks included eccentric dancing and wildly flinging his mop of hair; his standard accoutrements included a white tuxedo and an oversized baton.
He's seen as stylish, slightly eccentric, gentlemanly, outspoken, and humorous.
