Sentence examples for peculiar just from inspiring English sources

The comment that I found so peculiar just kicked off this whole idea for Liberty Heights.

Over the last decade, J. Robert Lennon's literary imagination has grown increasingly morbid, convoluted and peculiar — just as his books have grown commensurately more surprising, rigorous and fun.

In case (b), (sound) waves are different from processes and are peculiar just because waves move, as individual substances do.

It is not alone in making this transformation.The reality TV show "Big Brother", which starred supposedly ordinary (but actually very odd) members of the public, spawned "Celebrity Big Brother", where the contestants were just as peculiar but better-known.

This perhaps too has been part of its love/hate struggle with the literary world; for some people it is just too peculiar, but even those that may like it may never come across it simply because it defies classification and easy journalism.

Note that the names of other sciences are similarly peculiar: "physics" just comes from the Greek word for nature, and "chemistry" derives from "alchemy" (an Arabic word).

US critics have already hailed it as a classic, with Michiko Kakutani in the New York Times comparing it to Toni Morrison, Victor Hugo, Jorge Luis Borges, Franz Kafka and Jonathan Swift and the Washington Post's Ron Charles announcing: "The canon of essential novels about America's peculiar institution just grew by one".

I can sense this peculiar event just over halfway into most novels: all those random elements that I ordinarily love suddenly begin to act rather oddly: they stop fizzing, they begin to unify, to all move in the same direction, hurtling towards the same fixed point with great force.

He's well aware that a Hollywood movie is a peculiar hybrid not just a work of art or even also an object of commerce, but also, whether he'd want it that way or not, a part of world culture and an avatar of soft power and his film both offers hints about why he has declared himself ready to retire and why he can't quite get himself to do so yet.

A peculiar object just discovered beyond the orbit of Mars could be the survivor of an asteroid collision.

As a direct implication of the peculiar features just described, the properties of freely suspended membranes neither correspond to those in bulk nor to a simplified scenario where the structural relaxation peak is merely shifted towards lower temperatures.