It's why Solomon suggests that we are drawn together in our various peculiarities — and, in that sense, his book sheds some useful light on the limits and the power of modern identity talk.
Most of our many physical peculiarities are in one way or another associated with our upright posture, a feature with a long, well-documented history.
Most of our many physical peculiarities are in one way or another associated with our upright posture, a feature with a long and complex history that is elegantly summarized by Harcourt-Smith (this volume).
Despite its peculiarities, our Calamari Safari was a resounding success.
22 Notwithstanding these peculiarities, our estimates were of the same order of magnitude with respect to those using more usual approaches.
Our case's peculiarities are represented by the patient's lack of provenance from an Alpine area and by the absence of rapid growth, behavior that diverges from most of the cases described in literature.
"The peculiarities of our market, our tendency to be over-bespoke, and the [relatively small] size of it, mean that we fail to get the technology that our people deserve," said a participant.
Two American peculiarities made our national etiquette diverge from that of other nations.
Researchers have been pondering the peculiarities of our birth and its evolutionary significance for quite some time.
Despite its cheeky tone and somewhat facile approach (bits, like a chapter on Roman history entitled "The Gossip Column," seem flippantly sexed up by an anthologist in search of an audience), the book makes you think about our own civilization's peculiarities.
