Sentence examples for idiosyncratic figure from inspiring English sources

His cookbooks, a shower of James Beard Awards and his PBS television series "The Kitchen Sessions With Charlie Trotter" made him a national, if somewhat idiosyncratic, figure.

Scarpa cut an idiosyncratic figure in mid-20th century Italian design and architecture, and not only because he rarely worked outside Veneto.

Today, she has already appeared on GMTV, and faces an afternoon of hobnobbing with the suits at her UK company, Polydor, where she must cut an idiosyncratic figure alongside the likes of Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Hear'Say.

Mr. O'Neill "has been an idiosyncratic figure," in the view of Mr. Destler, who said of Mr. Lindsey, "The skepticism about him as a policy manager hasn't been rebutted".

Love is as likely to look to the street as it is to the catwalks for inspiration, and Grand is an idiosyncratic figure with a huge following within the industry, but champions a less orthodox approach to fashion.

He was also something of an idiosyncratic figure, an artist who taught himself to paint from a manual and did not share the literary pedigree and interests of more traditional Chinese ink painters.

Carson remains a master of idiosyncratic figures, delivering metaphor and simile casually and suddenly, while keeping her language idiomatically oddball.

You don't get the sense of diverse idiosyncratic figures chafing against one another, which still comes across in the 1962 film version.

"It's All Relative," in fact, appears to be on to something good in the O'Neils and Philip and Simon, all four idiosyncratic figures who provide the show's cheeriest moments.

But his crusade also succeeded in making the Republican Senate caucus much more interesting — thinning the ranks of time-servers, and elevating rising stars like Marco Rubio and idiosyncratic figures like Rand Paul.

Both authors are fascinating, indeed idiosyncratic figures, and each has played a role in the events of the last three years: Fouad Ajami, a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, has been a regular White House visitor as an unofficial adviser to the Bush administration.