The ballets of George Balanchine make the peculiar natural.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, in the midst of its robust expansion, made the peculiar decision to cancel the amazing exhibition of Arshile Gorky, which allowed the virtually broke LA Museum of Contemporary Art to jump in and save the day.
In fact, his current website makes the peculiar argument that "in a broken world, the discovery of a genetic link would not prove that such a condition was God's intent.
Making the experience more peculiar still is the fact that the gentleman I contacted had passed away in 1990.
In each one, an odd element or circumstance makes the case peculiar to its time.
What makes the case peculiar is that Mr. DeLay wasn't accused of trying to get rich.
In 1860, two Canadians named James Bain (age 18) and John Campbell (20) made the quite peculiar decision to holiday in the northern wilderness.
Mr Potok calculates that America has about 600 hate-groups with between 100,000 and 200,000 members, a growing number of whom are overtly neo-Nazi.But this hardly makes the United States peculiar.
Wafting onstage as Glinda the Good Witch in an Eartha Kitt-ish sky-blue gown-and-turban combo, she bestows with an air of benevolent imperiousness the knowledge that Dorothy can click her heels and make the whole peculiar parade disappear.
It's made the somewhat peculiar move of reporting some of its financial performance, which has shown heavy losses, though Kosrowshahi suggests that the company would be able to dial back its investments (like international expansion) to get those financials in order as it looks at an IPO.
What makes the example peculiar is the use of lumped models as those extensively used in electrical engineering that resort to simplified models in place of complex description of other system parts.
