For Christmas 2013, Kew created something extremely odd, eccentric, arty and magical.
Royals and socialites were always welcome on the B.D.L., and of course the odd eccentric — up to a point.
Last season, Byer also brought back some whimsical miniatures by the eccentric James Waring, including the campy and odd "Eccentric Beauty Revisited," a brief, charming solo inspired by Nijinsky's exotic novelty piece "Le Dieu Bleu".
The great tradition of British painting is not the secure museum art we assume but a difficult, odd, eccentric phenomenon, never entirely understood or wholly liked by outsiders and, most interestingly of all, never considered simply as art.
It is also unclear whether this continuum should be extended to include the possession of isolated "autistic traits" — peculiar, intense preoccupations and fixations, often combined with relative social withdrawal or remoteness — such as one encounters in any number of people conventionally called "normal," or seen, at most, as a little odd, eccentric, pedantic, or reclusive.
The name on the inscription for this last battle was changed from Volgograd, which the city has been called since 1961, to its wartime version only last year.What is surprising about Russian perspectives on Stalin is not that the odd eccentric town council has made an official bid to rehabilitate him, or that a couple of others want to erect statues in his honour.
"There are only odd eccentrics.
Western Aleutian Technical College of Whale Husbandry vs. 2,130,293-to-1 Odds Your Last Remaining Eccentric Pick takes its best shot at breaking into the Sweet Sixteen in what is destined to be this tournament's Cinderella story.
I've played … more characterised people, people who are slightly odd or eccentric".
With its mix of odd villains, eccentric aristocrats and fashionable London settings, Sherlock can draw on a Chinese fondness for a storybook version of Britain.
Romesh Gunesekera Nicola Barker's Darkmans (Fourth Estate) is the sort of book I usually avoid: 800-plus pages, odd font, eccentric spacing.
