In recent years, charitable status has been recognized for organizations with purposes as idiosyncratic as promoting excellence in quilting and educating the public about Huey military aircraft.
From this standpoint, we might judge as "poetry" any combination of text, audio, and/or video that produces a reflexive reaction having to do with the purpose and function of our idiosyncratic relationships with language.
Other than "write well," I think writerly purpose should be fairly idiosyncratic.
The moderating impact of the shopping context is tested, demonstrating in which way the relationship between activity and demand-specific motivation is more idiosyncratic in nature than the interrelation of purpose and activity-specific motivation.
Our analysis thus flips the conventional notion of 'best-practice transfer' on its head: Instead of asking 'how well' an innovation model has been implemented, we analyze the differences among the three importations to reveal the idiosyncratic ways in which each country imagines the purpose of innovation.
"Genres come not from scientific theory but from the ad hoc and idiosyncratic labels that record companies attach to music for marketing and publicity purposes," says Levitin, author of the best-selling book This Is Your Brain on Music.
They are betting that this year represents the beginning of a boom in a new class of computing device — things like shrunken laptops called netbooks, personal G.P.S. navigators and handheld game systems, as well as an expanding array of idiosyncratic gadgets that connect wirelessly to the Internet for every conceivable purpose.
Our third purpose is to examine whether any omitted variables or idiosyncratic shocks account for the failure of spending to fall after a tax cut.
Consideration of QOL appraisal can help to address the problem of how broad or narrow the assessment needs to be, particularly in domains that are more subject to idiosyncratic interpretation (general health, social support, spiritual fulfillment, or sense of purpose).
I'm not sure what Landline's larger purpose is, other than being a showcase for its three great, idiosyncratic female leads (John Turturro also stars as the father of the film's chaotic house).
