Sentence examples for peculiar calm from inspiring English sources

One of the birch trees in the courtyard looked as if it was trying to touch its toes, but there was a peculiar calm to the wind-tossed night.

Kerry's Spirit of Life centre, deep in the unspoilt Mani region, is on a rather smaller scale, but when we arrive there after a long drive through the stunning mountain scenery, a peculiar calm hangs over the place.

It may seem peculiar that I am calm while others in my life are suffering.

Down in Charleston, S.C., the elite's sense of the best English involved peculiar archaisms like "cam" for "calm" and "gyardin" for "garden".

(It's a peculiar car).

IT WAS a peculiar case.

The children's mother, long dead, recognized her son's peculiar gifts from the beginning: "He was beautiful and calm, he knew things".

In the act of responding so prodigiously to what he sees, recalls, and broods upon, this calm, solitary, pilgrim-like narrator performs a peculiar act of compassion toward world-and-self, one that extends a lifeline of hope".

Pietersen was badly missed by Kumar Sangakkara at leg gully in an innings combining the authoritative with the peculiar, but he and the dependable Trott played out the rest of the day in relative calm.

Why peculiar?

Shigenobu enters, looking peculiar.