Marianne Moore invented and brilliantly employed a kind of free verse that was marked by a wonderfully sharp and idiosyncratic focus on objects and details.
Daljit Nagra picked Seamus Heaney's North "for its intensely lyrical and idiosyncratic focus on aesthetic resolutions to conflict", while Elaine Feinstein selected Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters, for creating "a new form of intimate poetry, quite different from Robert Lowell's confessional verse".
MIKE WALLACE, the Pulitzer Prize-winning co-author of "Gotham," calls "New York 400" (Running Press, $40) an "aide-memoire" — the equivalent of a family photo album by 16 historians with their own idiosyncratic focus on what the subtitle calls "A Visual History of America's Greatest City".
Led by Amy Poehler, the show was shamelessly idiosyncratic, focusing on the ennui of small-town politics and managing to find the funnies in planning regulations, while giving the world stars such as Chris Pratt, Aubrey Plaza, Aziz Ansari, Rashida Jones and Nick Offerman.
Viewed from Moretti's statistical mountaintop, traditional literary criticism, with its idiosyncratic, personal focus on individual works, can seem self-indulgent, even frivolous.
Boards, and companies' governance processes, are idiosyncratic; exactly how to focus on what's really needed in the next CEO will depend on the firm.
But where the Polish company tries to stand out from the crowd is with its focus on the idiosyncratic nature of each local European market by supporting a number of alternative payment methods.
Despite his early mainstream successes, Hornsby has pursued a more personal, idiosyncratic musical path, focusing on projects that sparked his creative interest, including collaborations with the Grateful Dead, Spike Lee, Ricky Skaggs, Don Henley, Ornette Coleman, Bob Dylan, Béla Fleck, Bonnie Raitt, Pat Metheny, and Robbie Robertson.
Developed by NBC executive Rick Ludwin, and produced by Castle Rock Entertainment, it was a mix of Seinfeld's stand-up comedy routines and idiosyncratic, conversational scenes focusing on mundane aspects of everyday life.
I wish, instead, to focus on what might seem an idiosyncratic angle.
