She had become, in the idiosyncratic words of her husband (English was not their first language), "a happy cat".
A former radio personality named Lee Abrams was brought in as "chief innovation officer", where hepeppered the staff with stream-of-consciousness memos, some of which went on for 5,000 typo-ridden, idiosyncratic words that left some amused and many bewildered.
This year, "The Bridge" feels lived in and idiosyncratic; the word "organic" springs to mind, though you won't find the down-and-out Marco Ruiz eating kale any time soon.
Then one day last week I heard about a free shopping service called Respond.com, where shoppers can type in the most idiosyncratic, finicky words they can think of to describe the specific product or service they want (www.respond.com).
It is run by a family for whom the word "idiosyncratic" might have been invented and who employ staff in the same spirit.
In Old English manuscripts, punctuation is idiosyncratic; to denote word divisions, writers tried a variety of strategies: dots, spaces, "camel case" (that is, using capital letters rather than spaces ToMarkTheBeginningsOfNewWords).
He has a lot of the style down pat: the flat American vowels, the choice of accents, the idiosyncratic distribution of words in a jazz singer's phrase and the held notes that begin straightened and harsh before blossoming into a vibrato.
Transcription cannot do justice to his idiosyncratic pronunciation of a word like "gratuitous," or "ethical," or "Xbox".
Welcome to the Great White Way!") and a theatrically ironic eye roll (almost a whole head roll), Tracy recognizes that Brooke is a character, in both senses of the word — an idiosyncratic, overflowing, even overwhelming personality, and someone made to be represented in a work of fiction.
If this sounds an idiosyncratic definition of the word "Democrat", that is because the Supreme Court has ruled that the Democratic Party is, in effect, a private club; it can seat, or refuse to seat, whoever it damn well likes.All the same, it is hard to know why the Arkansas Democrats are going to all this trouble.
