Sentence examples for once eccentric from inspiring English sources

What were once eccentric creations have become polite and well behaved.

An expanding network of bicycle lanes is slowly making parts of LA friendlier to two wheels, turning a once eccentric form of transport almost hip.

In the work of the artist Jeff Koons, for instance who makes nothing but has things, from kitsch figurines to giant puppies composed of flowers, made for him this postmodern rejection of the handmade or authentic is given a weirdly comic tone, at once eccentric and humorous.

Having worked such wonders with Belleville Rendezvous, Sylvain Chomet invests Tati's unwordy but strangely weighty manuscript (a response, apparently, to his guilty abandonment of an illegitimate daughter) with a sense of innocent melancholia which is at once eccentric, moving and strangely magical.

As Bertrand Russell wrote, "Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric".

The mathematician-philosopher Bertrand Russell once said, "Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric".

Those who made a political career out of insulting fellow Europeans are conducting the negotiations, drawn from that once-eccentric clique of Euro-lunatics John Major called "the bastards".

Who knew the once-eccentric dresser who made waves at fashion shows would morph into such a pared-down lady so quickly?

Once the eccentric hobby of the wealthy, orchid growing "has become a national obsession," according to Walter Off, son George Off, who started growing orchids on the family farm in Linwood in 1927.

Even so, ESPN's rise is evidence that betting on people's appetite for sport, which once seemed eccentric, has paid off.Scenes from a marriageThe marriage between sport and broadcasters, though long and successful, has been changing in a number of ways.

Mark Fidrych was once considered an eccentric for talking to baseballs.