Sentence examples for jokes eccentric from inspiring English sources

Its dense texture, thicket of literary references, medical terms, mordant jokes, eccentric images and myriad preoccupations are not there simply to drive you crazy (though they might) or show you how smart Mr. Kaufman is, or make you feel clever for catching its allusions.

Throwaway jokes and eccentric visual effects (including a trippy sequence by the Dutch animator Rosto) propel a story that weaves faith, creation and cruddy commodes into a psychedelic riff on sex roles and class structure.

King's Quest has made a stunning episodic return, with a host of eccentric characters, jokes and heart.

Search for some funny, yet eccentric science jokes.

There were the days when he won $100 off Todd Hundley, joked around with the eccentric Bill Pulsipher and took what he estimated were a million swings on the back fields.

(To those who have read the book, it registers as an in joke that Tripp's eccentric Jewish in-laws are now proper Yankees who live in a house that is "a great place to wake up on Christmas morning").

Alexander Waugh's running joke about this long-suffering and eccentric woman is that she actually preferred cows to people.

Bedrooms were not particularly private places in medieval Europe, and wanting to relieve yourself unobserved might be considered as eccentric as wanting to crack jokes in utter solitude.

A little man, interested in the arts, the sciences, and technology, an able courtier and a magnificent host, he was eccentric, given to malicious practical jokes, and a terror to his wife and children.

Every sentence seems to be on the point of curling into a joke; characters are forever spawning a host of eccentric offspring.

It is the labor of the great joke collectors — a few brilliant, polymathic, and sometimes eccentric men — that has made us aware of such continuities in the nether regions of civilization.