Sentence examples for peculiar character from inspiring English sources
William is a peculiar character.
THE peculiar character of Saparmurat Niyazov, the president of Turkmenistan, has often been compared to Stalin's.
Guarantees have a peculiar character: the more convincing they are, the less they are likely to be invoked.
Consider, next, the peculiar character of the president's domestic conservatism.A big-government guyThis is one of the most conservative politicians ever to inhabit the White House.
His smaller work on the peculiar character of the prophets Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam ("The Bezels of Wisdom")—became even more popular.
A large part of the war is verbal, and we sometimes wonder how much of its peculiar character is shaped by verbal accidents.
Granted, it cannot be easy to make these peculiar characters seem both fully human and convincing embodiments of spiritual forces.
In the 95-minute "Mummenschanz," playing at the Skirball Center, Slinky-like tubes, sluggish blobs and lots of other peculiar characters populate dozens of unconnected skits.
The presence of these peculiar characters quickly becomes a destabilizing force in the lives of the family next door, a model of bourgeois interracial achievement.
And the Olympic sports I've seen up close often nurture a rich subculture of peculiar characters: rising stars, wily veterans, dopers and cheaters, has-beens, never-weres, vulpine agents, arrogant federation heads, wealthy supporters and creepy hangers-on.
And in PORTOBELLO (Scribner, $26), that warm feeling extends to the colorful market street in London's Notting Hill where some of the city's most peculiar characters tend to gravitate.
