Sentence examples for idiosyncratic quality from inspiring English sources

"English medieval art has an idiosyncratic quality that is quite different from art from the Continent.

No? Surely their lack of impact on the wider scene is a sign of their distinctiveness and idiosyncratic quality.

It is a signal of his book's elevating idiosyncratic quality, however, that in addition to this, Majd also visits a less pious household in Qom, where the author twice gets baked by smoking opium, and where he reflects memorably on the social meanings of his host's addiction.

I like things that are pretty and fairy-like, but then they have an idiosyncratic quality to them, like Miss Havisham's wedding dress.

Even so, the album did not sell well, possibly because of the "idiosyncratic quality" of its ballads and the paucity of reviews.

They evidently valued the idiosyncratic qualities of furniture made in the Connecticut River Valley.

The article then outlines an alternative strategy in which social-cognitive personality systems are tapped in a manner that is sensitive to the potentially idiosyncratic qualities of the individual.

Furthermore, the discovery of these idiosyncratic qualities are best teased out and examined through an inductive and contextually focused approach that utilizes qualitative and ethnographic methods.

In its place are Holiday's distinctive jazz timing and idiosyncratic phrasing, qualities as singular as fingerprints.

The tiny four-cylinder engines with their adventurous Skinner Union carburetors ran on an idiosyncratic schedule, and quality was so poor that parts flew off regularly.

There's an idiosyncratic high-pitched quality to her voice, a weird squeakiness and showy inflection, that have led to descriptions of her as "Björk meets Róisín Murphy while possessed by the ghost of Billie Holiday" or even "Portishead meet Piaf".