Sentence examples for peculiar lonely from inspiring English sources

The visitors find Wonka to be peculiar, lonely and acting odd at the mention of "parents".

For a friend, since I was a lonely, peculiar child who had trouble making friends.

"I quite often search for myself online," he says, "because I'm a peculiar mixture of lonely and arrogant".

But in a way the job they have is so peculiar and — perhaps — lonely that beyond the rivalry there's a collegial understanding that few others can enter into.

Lonely lone.

So did many other producers (that is half the story of Hollywood), but animation held a peculiar attraction for the lonely and the avid, who craved nothing more than pencil, paper, and peace.

Mr. Dehler's book, and the historian Stefan Bechtel's 2012 biography, "Mr. Hornaday's War: How a Peculiar Victorian Zookeeper Waged a Lonely Crusade for Wildlife That Changed the World" (Beacon Press), devote only a few pages to the Ota Benga exhibition.

Part of the draw for me (and, no doubt, for the countless others who visit each year) is the valley's remoteness and the peculiar air of excitement that being in such a lonely locale can inspire.

Perhaps he is too lonely to realise, but it's not a peculiar mixture if you ask me.

The narrator of "In the Miso Soup" (1997) is a tourist handler in Tokyo's red light district who can't tell whether a peculiar client is a serial killer or simply a typical lonely American man.

As with Limit to Your Love, there is a spareness to Blake's delivery, a peculiar otherworldliness that puts me a little in mind of Nick Drake; something lonely and desperate and beautiful to his tone.