Sentence examples for peculiar mark from inspiring English sources

They are reeled off, often dutifully and without the angled inflection to reality that the critic Michael Wood has noted as the peculiar mark of Rushdie's talent.

Spielberg's vision of a quaint and virtuous monarchy, a seemingly permanent touchstone of dignity in a world where temporal rulers come and go with fluctuating values and standards, is a peculiar mark of self-justification, self-congratulation, and self-interest.

This is not a peculiar mark of mysticism, demurs Alston, since quite common in science, philosophy, and religion.

Dissection had been added to the Murder Act of 1752 to inflict "further terror and a peculiar mark of infamy".

These views, rather than his peculiar taxonomies, mark his importance for later authors.

Our Loch Ness monster DNA came from a piece of smoked salmon with a peculiar bite mark that one of Scotland's top biologists insisted was not of human origin.

The inclusion of "super-realist" sculptures of the 1960s and 70s, much of it by artists represented by the peculiar Nicholas Treadwell Gallery, marks the return of the repressed, or rather the return of works I had hoped never to see the first time, let alone again.

E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet On Thursday, however, the Great Hall of the People returned to its full orthodox splendor, if only for a few hours, for a peculiar ritual to mark the arrival of the new Standing Committee of the Politburo, the group of seven men who will lead the People's Republic for the next ten years.

On Thursday, however, the Great Hall of the People returned to its full orthodox splendor, if only for a few hours, for a peculiar ritual to mark the arrival of the new Standing Committee of the Politburo, the group of seven men who will lead the People's Republic for the next ten years.

Famous for tripping out audiences with his musically minimalist contraptions under such monikers as Sonic Boom and E.A.R., Kember's band, Spacemen 3, have left a peculiar and lasting mark on English rock and roll history.

The Timbers featured in the NASL in the 1970s and since those days have maintained the peculiar ritual of marking each goal with a chainsaw-wielding fan, aka Timber Joey, slicing a circle of wood from a tree stump.