Sentence examples for peculiar anecdotes from inspiring English sources
With Aubrey, Mr. Powell shared a fascination with genealogy, peculiar anecdotes and gossip.
To push the analysis in a new direction, he considers a rather peculiar anecdote about the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein.
In these peculiar breast-feeding anecdotes it is not always obvious where the analogy lies.
Also tells various uses of oranges & anecdotes of peculiar uses and customs connected with oranges.
Hoffman's book, based on the Atlantic article, is structured around anecdotes from Erds' peculiar life, but it is less a biography than a highly successful popularization of number theory and its history.
The anecdotes become reflections, and the reflections have their own peculiar fictional life because we sense something beyond them, something we're not being told because Hernández doesn't know it, or doesn't want to know it.
The prose in "Looking for Lincoln" often has this kind of pedantic fortissimo, but the sustained raking and display of anecdotes and artifacts — an effort that feels almost archeological — has a peculiar cumulative force.
They are flatly sketched from anecdote, but the unencumbered clarity of their portrayal has a peculiar appeal: the fat, self-indulgent Hermann Göring, drinking champagne and hoarding stolen art; the small-eyed soullessness of Heinrich Himmler.
