A peculiar dialogue exchange occurs when someone tells Ash, "If you want someone to do whatever you want, whenever you want, you should find yourself a girlfriend".
Patrick Mulkern of Radio Times admitted he was unsure if he was going to like it with the "grungy setting, wacko characters and peculiar dialogue", but ended up "captivated".
Less successful is "The Memory Book," by Jerry Lucas (with Harry Lorayne), in which the authors "outline numerous memorization tactics, written in the form of a peculiar Socratic dialogue".
Cheap technological effects, fractured storylines, shrill and stilted dialogue in peculiar accents, over-the-top ensemble acting, cross-dressing, crowd control and violence, particularly to smartphones, are Trecartin's forte.
Scholz, whose most recent book was a collaboration with Jonathan Lethem titled "Kafka Americana," uses language that can be peculiar and Latinate, and his dialogue occasionally swerves toward the didactic.
The ensuing dialogue between the peculiar Oldfield and the lefty comedian Ballard didn't come close to clarifying that when the founding document was enacted in 1901, section 127 specifically provided: "In reckoning the numbers of the people of the Commonwealth, or of a State or other part of the Commonwealth, aboriginal natives shall not be counted".
Created with what Enoch Brater calls a "peculiar verbal strategy", it is a dialogue between characters called Ear, Mouth, Eye, Nose, Neck, and Eyebrow.
When the characters break into dialogue, however, they undergo a peculiar transformation.
When this voice, whom he has named Emma in homage to Austen -- peculiar for someone admittedly subliterate -- begins a dialogue with him, Max declares his love to her.
As the dialogue ping-pongs along, the audience courts the peculiar risk of listening too carefully.
Those are such peculiar dimensions, in fact, that many of Windows's own dialogue boxes don't fit.
