Sentence examples for peculiar notion of from inspiring English sources

Secondly, the "cataclysm" theory depends on a peculiar notion of "normal": that the Democrats lose no seats, or even gain them.

If this seems a peculiar view for a religious person to hold it is perhaps because we in the west have a peculiar notion of religion.

But the twins and everyone else shown here are slaves to a peculiar notion of status, one that has nothing to do with money or success.

"It's a peculiar notion of fairness," said the Republican economist Douglas Holtz-Eakin, to tell affluent Americans, "You fund all of the government, and we're going to hit you harder".

Earlier this month, it was the turn, in a U.S. drone stroke in Libya, of a Tunisian terrorist called Abu Iyadh, who also spent years in Afghanistan at bin Laden's side, thanks to Mullah Omar's peculiar notion of hospitality.

Linked with this idea of the potentially destructive power of passionate will, emotion, and thought is Balzac's peculiar notion of a vital fluid concentrated inside the person, a store of energy that he may husband or squander as he desires, thereby lengthening or shortening his vital span.

Like the small-town troupers in "Guffman" and the dog-show competitors in "Best in Show," the pickers and chirpers of "A Mighty Wind" are immune to embarrassment and utterly devoted to their own peculiar notions of artistic accomplishment and show-business glory.

What I'm trying to say is, King Tut ran off to pursue his peculiar notions of happiness between the muscled thighs of our Pilates instructor.

Peculiar notions of bravery and nobility can blind you to danger.

His 1984 book, "Eccentric Lives and Peculiar Notions," told of one man who devoted his life to proving the world was flat, and another to proving it was concave.

This anthropocentric viewpoint has shaped much of western philosophy, finding expression in Descartes' dictum that animals are unfeeling machines, and Immanuel Kant's peculiar notion that human personality is the source of all that is truly valuable in the world.