For instance, the ZX81's idiosyncratic method of typing commands with a single keystroke – the result of the memory-saving method of using one-byte tokens to represent keywords – was presented as "eliminat[ing] a great deal of tiresome typing".
This is a family story distinguished by ghosts, gators, a wildly febrile physical environment ("our swamp got blown to green bits and reassembled, daily, hourly"), exceptional command of language and darkly idiosyncratic humor.
Yet when the play was staged at London's tiny Bush Theater in 2009, it was the idiosyncratic awkwardness of the damaged and damaging characters that commanded the critics' attention.
A close friend of and occasional collaborator with Yasujiro Ozu, Shimizu commanded a style as distinctive and almost as idiosyncratic as Ozu's, though pointed in the opposite direction.
Idiosyncratic in her classical silhouette but using her torso and arms with commanding flourish, she takes over the stage with bird-of-paradise allure.
In 1990, G.M. paid $600 million for half of Saab, and anted up $125 million in 2000 for the rest of the company, which has long commanded a small, loyal following in the United States for its idiosyncratic but stylish models.
The group has built its own idiosyncratic musical grammar, one in which each element stands on its own and commands attention, in gothic-electronic soul songs that are sometimes not much more than collections of hushes and gasps, brought together at an oozing pace.
Together Since Their Teens: Lowercase Minimalists The band xx has built its own idiosyncratic musical grammar, one in which each element stands on its own and commands attention, in gothic-electronic soul songs that are sometimes not much more than collections of hushes and gasps, brought together at an oozing pace.
The lack of consensus in approach to these idiosyncratic facts should not, however, obscure the solid allegiance the principles of New York Times Co. v. Sullivan continue to command in the jurisprudence of this Court.
People are idiosyncratic.
