The idiosyncratic pictures that thrive at Sundance — the Ozarks drug tale "Winter's Bone" won the festival's grand jury award for drama last year (and, incidentally, was directed by a woman) — are a world away from what works at the mall: special effects, superheroes, sophomoric comedy.
As noted by Drees (1990), Hawking's approach is just one among several competing attempts to incorporate quantum effects into relativistic cosmology, and we are not compelled to accept its idiosyncratic metaphysical picture.
What the film does, though, is use these incidents to build an idiosyncratic but insightful picture of Lawrence, played indelibly by Peter O'Toole in his debut role: a complicated, egomaniacal and physically masochistic man, at once god-like and all too flawed, with a tenuous grip both on reality and on sanity.
He has developed an idiosyncratic approach, painting in black, white and greys, often basing his pictures on images found in old books and magazines, creating a palpable sense of time and an uncertain nostalgic aura in his pictures.
His feed is an idiosyncratic mix of pictures of labradors and game birds interspersed with sweary exchanges of fire.
Rather, it's a kind of hushed folk, in which Wagner's mumbled vocals and idiosyncratic lyrics sketch a picture of a world that is significantly more shadowy, tenuous, and romantic than our own.
Reviewing Jorge Luis Borges's "The Book of Imaginary Beings" in The New Yorker in 1970, George Steiner wrote: Like Lewis Carroll, Borges has made of autistic dreams — of a private condition that is exotic and idiosyncratic to a degree — pictures, discreet but exacting summonses, that readers the world over are discovering with a sense of perfect recognition.
In Study 2 we rule out an alternative explanation that children simply favor pictures containing their idiosyncratic preferences by discovering that 6 year olds, but not 4 year olds chose a picture they mistakenly believed contained their idea, over a picture that contained their idiosyncratic preferences.
