Sentence examples for peculiar figure from inspiring English sources

"Anna was a very peculiar figure in journalism.

Antigone, for example, is a peculiar figure; her own judgment is often not as keen as it might appear.

Writer answers, telling them what a peculiar figure he has and how he thinks it will defy even their fitters.

He is, in many ways, a peculiar figure: a loner with no particular congressional following, whose run for president in 1988 faded as disconcertingly as his famous eyebrows.

The curators do not sanitize Degas, who was by all accounts a prickly and peculiar figure (even without getting into his known anti-Semitism or his suspected celibacy).

Mr. Gilbert, who won the Yale Younger Poets Prize in 1962 for his first book, "Views of Jeopardy," and the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2005 for his fourth, "Refusing Heaven," was a peculiar figure in the contemporary poetry world in the sense that he wasn't exactly in it.

At the front door the owners passed under a glazed terra-cotta frieze of peculiar design, with figures eating, reading and sleeping — apparently after a couple of jugs of wine.

In presence of CO2 the temporal variations of the gravity field caused by changes in the average fluid density (Figure 10) show a peculiar pattern.

The sequenced putative ori regions of some Wolbachia strains present a peculiar pattern of binding sites [see Figure 1 and Additional Table 1].

This encounter led Ebenstein on another journey through Europe, to document as many similarly peculiar Venus figures as possible.

In spite of a peculiar, hard to figure scenic design, tt rates a detailed analysis and appreciation of every scene.