Sentence examples for peculiar conventions from inspiring English sources

The use of spoken dialogue linking this powerful work's musical numbers categorized it, in the peculiar conventions of the time, as an "opéra-comique".

Whatever the variation, there is a peculiar convention in tarte flambee: Each wedge is rolled from the wide crust end to its point, and the rolls are eaten end to end.

The Senate was then, and is now, a clubby place governed by its own peculiar rules and conventions.

One sometimes thinks of prodigies as embodiments of peculiar genius, uncorrupted by convention, impossible to replicate or reëngineer.

This convention is not peculiar to the 2-order; it is one of the axioms of an additive valuation in higher algebra.

And the international waters where most wrecks lie are peculiar too: nominally governed by the United Nations convention of the law of the sea, but actually hardly governed at all.

It's a film so gleefully peculiar, so brazen in its disinterested in convention or meeting audience satisfaction, that it sort of takes up residence in its own atmosphere.

When quizzed days later, those with perfect scores earn a virtual award proclaiming, "I'm Peculiar" — the company's proud phrase for overturning workplace conventions.

Edward Lear is even more of a puzzle: a strange, itinerant figure whose restless imagination and peculiar mind put him at odds with much of Victorian convention.

On the day of the weigh-ins, at the Memphis convention center, I asked one of Tyson's trainers, Stacey McKinley, about the peculiar arrangements.

In fact, Gingrich's N.A.A.C.P. gambit — and his rather quaint conviction that the organization's annual convention might be ground zero for transforming the African-American community — has a specific and peculiar history.