As hot chocolate and bubbly warmed our bellies, you could see a mutual knowledge in each other's eyes, a hint that we were fulfilling a promise that could only be realized through this peculiar journey alone.
All Slavic languages are synthetic, expressing grammatical meaning through the use of affixes (suffixes and, in verbal forms, also prefixes), vowel alternations partly inherited from Indo-European, and consonant alternations resulting from linguistic processes peculiar to Slavic alone.
If it is true that, as Arendt once observed, "in the works of a great writer we can almost always find a consistent metaphor peculiar to him alone in which his whole work seems to come to a focus," then her thought is certainly focussed on the image of distance or separation.
Initially I read just to please myself: the happy odd person left alone with his peculiar subjects.
But the greatest film stars have a talent peculiar to the screen alone.
He did his scientific work in isolation, and scribbled his manuscripts in a peculiar mirror writing he alone could read.
It's an attitude that isn't peculiar to German sensibilities alone, but has a European resonance.
Next morning, I woke early and brought a friend over to mine; there was little point in us suffering this peculiar day atomised and alone.
But in "Never Swim Alone," a peculiar theater piece by a Canadian playwright, Daniel Mac Ivor, at the SoHo Playhouse, the two designated buddies try to drown each other as they dog paddle through the troubled waters of life.
