Sentence examples for peculiar life from inspiring English sources

Handel's opera "Orlando" has had a peculiar life.

She fully understood how odd people are, and how peculiar life is, how jarringly unsettling.

binotata's peculiar life cycle may have unfolded as a consequence of the two-dimensional architecture of its nests.

By the time he did his A-levels, by a correspondence course, "I was leading a very peculiar life.

The peculiar life cycle of the freshwater eel was almost tailor-made for the harvest season, and for stockpiling food for the winter.

American officials say there is much they do not know about the last years of Bin Laden, who was shot dead by Navy Seal commandos last Monday in his third-floor bedroom, and the peculiar life of the compound.

Nabokov, in a great, dogmatic essay on it, saw the book as a phenomenon of a peculiar "life-generating syntax", in which Gogol's sentences called up a world which could be capriciously developed or abandoned.

It may simply be denial, my own way of dealing with the peculiar public life of the memoirist, but my words, hundreds of thousands of them by now, feel somehow like the opposite of self-revelation.

The anecdotes become reflections, and the reflections have their own peculiar fictional life because we sense something beyond them, something we're not being told because Hernández doesn't know it, or doesn't want to know it.

There was a notable increase in yellow-and-black spines near the business-and-finance shelves, which prompted a groan from Tennant ("How many times can you do a cartoon about exchange-traded funds, or something, you know?") and then some reflection about his peculiar professional life.

Maybe the things we think are essential are really just peculiar to life on Earth.