Sentence examples for peculiar dead from inspiring English sources

While researching her previous book, "The Dead Beat" (about obituary writers), she noticed something peculiar: Dead librarians are more interesting than any other type of dead person.

But in "Intimacy" the characters inhabit a peculiar dead end in which they all behave cruelly to one another because there's nothing but blank walls on all sides of them.

The predigital video in the commission hearings brings its own peculiar sense of dead air, of an institutional present, lending the dramatic questioning and testimonials a hard, cleareyed directness.

Equation (4) is mass balance, expressed in the form of flux continuity, equation (6) is peculiar to the dead end configuration, equation (5) is the classical no-slip condition, and equations (7), (8) are consequence of the symmetry of the flow field around the pipe axis.

The story of architecture under the peculiar, now long-dead system that is today called (but never called itself) communism is generally considered a story of sad decline.

Edgar Wright's movie, generous with its gags, doesn't so much spoof the action-thriller genre as pay it prolonged homage, in the most inappropriate of settings; along the way, it finds time to anatomize, as did "Shaun of the Dead," the peculiar lusts and lunacies of modern England — or, at least, that part of it which tries to wish modernity away.

Edgar Wright's movie, generous with its gags, doesn't so much spoof the action-thriller genre as pay it prolonged homage, in the most inappropriate of settings; along the way, it finds time to anatomize, as did "Shaun of the Dead," the peculiar lusts and lunacies of modern England or, at least, that part of it which tries to wish modernity away. Anthony Lane (4/30/07) (In wide release).

Edgar Wright's movie, generous with its gags, doesn't so much spoof the action-thriller genre as pay it prolonged homage, in the most inappropriate of settings; along the way, it finds time to anatomize, as did "Shaun of the Dead," the peculiar lusts and lunacies of modern England or, at least, that part of it which tries to wish modernity away. A.L. (4/30/07) (In wide release).

The brain dead present a peculiar problem in that they are breathing corpses, which the President's Commission Report [ 1] attempted to explain as follows: 'When an individual's breathing and circulation lack neurologic integration, he or she is dead".

"Dead bodies were frozen in peculiar positions on the street," she recalled.

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