These novels offer peculiar versions of history, concerned mainly with marginal people who end up, despite their natures, in the middle of big doings.
Paradoxically, the suggested Americanisation would almost certainly diminish the Booker's prestige in America, where at present the prize is treated with that peculiar reverence Americans offer all things British.
As with his larger musical works, Charles Ives' songs occupy a peculiar position that offers a bridge between Old World classical art-song traditions and the more demotic, folksy New World modes, but charged with the questing experimental spirit that characterises his entire output.
The peculiar cathode design offered greater flexibility on size and shape of the sample.
It begins by giving us the names of "the twelve" and then presents us with a number of instructions and peculiar warnings Jesus offers to the disciples as they are sent on their mission to proclaim the Kingdom of God.
The peculiar political conjunction could offer an elusive chance during a convulsive period in the history of the Middle East.
For Schottenheimer, the N.F.L. and life offer a peculiar twist: the Chiefs, whom he coached for 10 seasons, visit on Sunday.
Former radicals, ageing hippies, Drug Enforcement agents, feminist martial arts experts, businessmen with Mafia connections, Japanese private investigators specialising in 'karmic adjustments', salvage men, FBI agents and in one of the book's running jokes a community of the undead, all offer their peculiar perspectives.
Features peculiar to laser technology offer some advantages over more traditional processes, but, like all processes, it has its limitations.
The same epistemic procedure is invoked, as well, to offer a peculiar alternative to the characteristically Buddhist view that awareness is inherently reflexive (that all awareness, that is, involves svasaṃvitti, or "self-awareness").
