Sentence examples for peculiar faculty from inspiring English sources

Here then is such a plan subsequent to the completed work, which now can be laid out according to the analytic method, whereas the work itself absolutely had to be composed according to the synthetic method, so that the science might present all of its articulations, as the structural organization of a quite peculiar faculty of cognition, in their natural connection.

With the aim of explaining how peculiar human faculties might be inherited from the simplest adaptive abilities of animals, the animat approach is based on the conception or construction of simulated animals or robots capable of surviving in more or less unpredictable and threatening environments.

Years ago, when I was teaching at Berkeley, I received a peculiar note circulated among faculty members by the head of the humanities center.

They are then treated as mere composites or offshoots of those other faculties: a peculiar kind of belief, or a vague kind of desire or will.

In Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Gulliver learns to be disgusted by "the faculty of lying, so peculiar to Yahoos" and becomes enamoured of the Houyhnhnms, talking horses who know no word for untruthfulness.

It's a beautifully judged piece, luring visitors into its kaleidoscope of peculiar narratives but not expecting them to check in their critical faculties at the gallery entrance.

Why peculiar?

Peculiar, indeed.

law faculty.

Terrifically peculiar).

Very peculiar.