Sentence examples for peculiar notions from inspiring English sources

Crawford is beset by some peculiar notions, especially when the subject conflicts with his own feelings.

chosen by Shami Chakrabarti "I used to comfort myself with the belief that it was only certain individuals and their peculiar notions that spoilt things for the rest of us.

The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett I used to comfort myself with the belief that it was only certain individuals and their peculiar notions that spoilt things for the rest of us.

And lest those of us from America and other technologically advanced countries become too smug in believing that we are liberated from the peculiar notions identified in the article, we need to recognize that many girls here grow up either uninformed or misinformed about the menstrual cycle and feel the same kind of shame or embarrassment about their periods.

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.

One of the more peculiar notions she's picked up from these papers is that bar codes are marks of the devil.

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.