Sentence examples for peculiar hold from inspiring English sources

The fear of submerging an electronic calendar has a peculiar hold on the paper-ites.

Box scores illustrate the symmetry -- what Schwarz calls baseball's "double-entry personality" -- that perhaps helps to explain baseball's peculiar hold on its fans.

The more I thought about it, the more I thought it was interesting how much I was thinking about it — and the more sharply I perceived that small or worthless gifts seem to have a peculiar hold on my imagination, drawing me to a wide range of writers with a similar outlook.

Scholars are still debating whether Shakespeare wrote "Henry VIII" solo or in collaboration, but the sordid saga — adultery mixed with church-state double-dealing — continues to exert its peculiar hold on modern audiences.

He didn't want to work too hard though, and finding that, with his languid smile and ability to exploit weakness, he had a peculiar hold over women, he established a harem on Martin Luther King Drive.

Whatever tragic and ironic turns U.S. and Southern history took thereafter, it did so without the "peculiar institution" holding it back.

These peculiar experiences can hold a positive potential [ 17].

Many of them had only recently discovered an interest in their origins and some, it seems safe to say, held peculiar ideas about where their forebears had come from and what impelled them to leave.

Philip K. Dick's admittedly peculiar but passionately held worldview and the gnosticism it embodies does more than explain what some call the dystopian turn in science fiction from the 1960s onward, it also gives us what has arguably become the dominant mode of understanding of fiction in our time, whether literary, artistic or cinematic.

Now Rialto Pictures is re-releasing the movie in a new print (it opens on Friday in New York at Film Forum and in Los Angeles, and then in other cities later this fall), providing a chance to speculate on the nature of its peculiar appeal, which holds up remarkably well.

Butler, in his privately printed "Mr. Butler's Statement," put the blame for the breakup of his marriage on his wife's "peculiar" views: "She held that marriage should be companionship on equal terms -- partnership, in which, if both partners agree, it is well; but if they do not, neither is bound to yield".