Sentence examples for idiosyncratic reference from inspiring English sources

In this week's issue and here online (see The Critics), Louis Menand discusses H. W. Fowler's "Dictionary of Modern English Usage," the idiosyncratic reference that grew out of the Oxford English Dictionary and became an esteemed work in its own right.

This week in the magazine and here online (see Fact), Burkhard Bilger, in "The Riddler," profiles Henry Hook, who has earned renown in the puzzle… In this week's issue and here online (see The Critics), Louis Menand discusses H. W. Fowler's "Dictionary of Modern English Usage," the idiosyncratic reference that….

Kuhn's unusual work showcases his desire to create an individual style of painting that lies between figurative and abstract, while being laced with idiosyncratic references to modern and popular culture.

Released this past July, the album is almost recklessly heterogenic: each of its 11 tracks has its own highly idiosyncratic frame of reference, from torch songs to New York's no-wave of the '80s to Parisian chansons.

Her best works function like brilliant collages, creating meaning through idiosyncratic constellations of references and concepts.

Sent to the local public library for research, I pawed through whatever weirdly idiosyncratic, random collection of "reference" books had been amassed on a particular topic.

The conversation has the typical tempo and jargon of Generations X and Y, although the references are idiosyncratic ("Your fiddle was made in 1717, too? Oh, my God, that's so weird").

At other times he has rejected Putnam's intuitions about reference as highly idiosyncratic folk intuitions with no role to play in a natural science of language (Chomsky 1995).

The play's idiosyncratic imagery, which includes copious references to birds and wind and fish, often defies clear interpretation.

These idiosyncratic approaches, and the relevant references, were mentioned and briefly discussed in Section "Literature review".

One thinks of Jean-Michel Basquiat, whose graffitied lists and diagrams absorbed an idiosyncratic range of high and low references into the hip-hop rhythms of the street.