Sentence examples for peculiar emotion from inspiring English sources

In his November 8th, 2010, review, David Denby writes that "Fair Game" is an effective political melodrama that induces a peculiar emotion — the bitterness generated by an old anger that has faded into dull exasperation and now flares up again".

"Fair Game," the story of Valerie Plame, Joe Wilson, and the Bush Administration, is an effective political melodrama that induces a peculiar emotion — the bitterness generated by an old anger that has faded into dull exasperation and now flares up again.

The pomp surrounding a traditional funeral, the arcane rules governing the style of drape that covers the coffin, the ornaments which may be displayed on it, even the uniforms of the attendants who wait with the corpse while it lies in state, are all designed to heighten and draw out this peculiar emotion.

All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art".

In an essay from his book entitled "Art" just over a hundred years ago, Bell wrote, "The starting-point for all systems of aesthetics must be the personal experience of a peculiar emotion.

Looking for advice, he started posting on a Web site, Living Donors Online, and he discovered that many donors had to deal with peculiar emotions after surgery.

Truss highlights the importance that Gibbons places on detachment as a necessary adjunct to effective writing: "Like many a good doctor, she seems to have considered sympathy a peculiar and redundant emotion, and a terrible waste of time".

"The orchestra successfully presented the peculiar attraction and diverse emotion of music pieces of Mozart through exquisite rendition and truthful representation," the agency reported.

The answer lies in music's peculiar ability to touch the emotions, particularly sadness and a sense of loss.

He writes in the foreword that the connectedness among these figures shows "how little has altered … when it comes to that peculiar behavioral disturbance which causes every emotion to be transformed into letters on the page".

In addition, there is the use of facial expression to portray a variety of specific emotions that is the peculiar achievement of the Vladimir-Suzdal school.