Sentence examples for peculiar burden from inspiring English sources

There is a peculiar burden attached to being the USA basketball team, a pressure not just to win, but to win with a fitting grandiosity.

"Making carnival" is a phrase that recurs in Stahl's books; his peculiar burden is forever having to find his way toward even madder music than was playing on the St. Francis's twelfth floor.

And while Mr. Obama's advisers say he is entirely comfortable with his identity — as he has said, proud to be an African-American but not limited by that — he carries a peculiar burden as a presidential candidate: whether or not he calibrates his words, blacks as well as whites are likely to parse them for anything they might signal about racial issues.

Like any ambitious writer working in the nineteen-seventies and eighties, he understood the peculiar burden and gift of laboring under the shadow of Jorge Luis Borges — the master who, according to a famous remark by an Argentine critic, is "bigger than Argentine literature".

It was a bizarre fight to pick, and betrayed a cruel insensitivity to the experience of sexual minorities, who are born with the peculiar burden of disclosure, one that makes us "liars" until we correct the world's unfair assumptions about who we are.

There was Mr Ward, with his very adroit motion for inquiring into the peculiar burdens alleged to be laid on land.

All three guests are children of first or second generation immigrants and share the peculiar burdens of that heritage.

Then again, Christmas is often said to be "for" children, so perhaps no one is too young to shoulder its peculiar narrative burdens.

Indeed, Ms. Facchinetti's peculiar blessing and burden is not to follow Mr. Ford but to give retailers the unexpected: what they never knew they wanted.

Wheeled out before kick-off into the Siberian winds of west London, Brazil's in-house dancing girls had grinned their way heroically through a bikini-clad routine: and, in a way, this is very much the tone of these outings for Brazil's yellow-shirted buskers, for whom the ongoing "global tour" is a peculiar and increasingly unwanted burden.

But I knew what he made me feel, how I was drawn toward his peculiar authority, how his smile promised to take the burden of my life off my shoulders.