Sentence examples for know peculiarly from inspiring English sources

But in 2014, my kids know peculiarly little about their favourite bands.

Fans of David Lean's film, a portrait of repression known to inspire peculiarly rabid loyalty, might cry "Heresy!" at the above description.

He did one very bad thing that we know about, one which seems peculiarly inconsistent with his elevation of empirical reason as a partner to faith.

Scientists do not know why melanomas can behave so peculiarly.

All you need know is that Before I Sleep is a peculiarly inspired sequel to The Cherry Orchard, haunted by the unquiet spirit of Firs.

We know that Graeme Swann, after his extraordinary mid-tour retirement, peculiarly portrayed as a selfless act, will not reappear.

"Partouze" is a peculiarly evocative word, nearly onomatopoeic: if you happen to know both French and English it sounds like a coupling of partout ("everywhere") and "ooze" - Millet's preference exactly.

I did not know it then, but that trip was my initiation into friluftsliv – the peculiarly Norwegian fixation with "open-air living".

In a wartime fund-raising pamphlet for the Marie Curie Hospital, writer Vita Sackville-West emphasized the special role that medical women could play in cancer care as friends and confidantes to their patients: [The hospital] exists to minister to peculiarly feminine ailments; and no one but a woman can know what they mean.

Very little that we know about the main characters is conveyed by dialogue, so they come to seem peculiarly isolated from each other.

True, publishers everywhere know the seasons that are best for business, yet "la rentree litteraire," or literary return, seems peculiarly French because it is not good for business.