Sentence examples for merely a peculiar from inspiring English sources

But there is little agreement on whether the group was a genuinely sinister collection of officers or merely a peculiar clique.

But in the succeeding generations this view radically changed, and what was once seen as merely a peculiar institution came to be regarded by John C. Calhoun and others as a "positive good," crucial to the Southern way of life.

It's just a peculiar, interesting phenomenon.

But timing is a peculiar thing.

Now it is merely a dusty, vast and peculiar landscape with roads in place and most buildings as yet unbuilt.But experts say it stands a chance of becoming what promotional videos and brochures boldly portray.

But anonymity gives Chatroulette a peculiar appeal.

The peculiar alternating behavior of essentiality of a gene can be regarded as merely a fact of no particular importance other than as an explanation of the longevity of genes that appear nonessential.

In McCarthy's lexicon, Taft was not merely wrong, he was in the enemy camp and was showing a "peculiar affinity for Nazism".

Whether she is a believable, if peculiar, character or merely a convenient, exotic cipher is an open question, but Harrison imbues her solitary silence with a stately air of self-possession.

A museum of the New North or the New East would be merely peculiar, but here the term "New South" has a venerable heritage, recalling unrealized hopes and great expectations.

Simon Kuper, writing for The Financial Times, says Drogba's memoir takes on a peculiar emotional tone when the striker discusses his former manager, "the book's tone shifts from merely overwrought to cheap romantic novel".