Sentence examples for peculiar pair from inspiring English sources

It synthesizes Ms. Sikander's curatorial musings a little too antiseptically: there's an ornamental border, a gated landscape, traces of calligraphic writing and a peculiar pair of hybrid bird-human creatures.

The peculiar pair have also popped up, by name or reputation, in plays, television shows and films, as well as in the horror and crime genre — from Stephen King's "Salem's Lot," in 1975, to Linda Fairstein's "Lethal Legacy," published last February.

Most peculiar pairing so far: Daryl Hall with the hipster party rockers Chromeo.

Certain of Costello's exasperated comments to Paul — "I did not ask for you" — imply she has no more control over their peculiar pairing than does he.

A more peculiar pairing is ex-Special Neville Staple and ex-Damned drummer Rat Scabies, who have collaborated on a Staple solo album, The Rude Boy Returns.

Fourteen years ago, one looked on askance at the peculiar pairing of Liam Neeson and Tom Hollander, both wildly miscast in central roles that fall here to Rupert Everett and Freddie Fox, as Wilde and Bosie, respectively.

David Stubbs 6.10pm, BBC1 In which another group of eager, prize-hungry members of the public endure not merely the indignity of falling over repeatedly in front of a national Saturday teatime audience as the peculiar pairing of Ashley Banjo and Zoë Ball look on, but doing it accompanied by persistent, facetious quips by Sue Perkins.

She and Blomkvist make a very odd pair indeed — picture Angelina Jolie teamed up with a young Robert Redford — but their peculiar chemistry is what fuels this novel, particularly as Mr. Larsson loses control of his messy, increasingly implausible plot.

Paper reference: Lior Shamir and John Wallin, "Automatic detection and quantitative assessment of peculiar galaxy pairs in Sloan Digital Sky Survey," Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 443(4), 3528-3537.

She told the Guardian: "She's just been caught in the middle of something peculiar that the pair of us don't even understand".

Daniel Barenboim's visit to Carnegie Hall with the Chicago Symphony has been a study in peculiar juxtapositions: Mozart paired with Bruckner, Elliott Carter sharing a program with Falla, and, for the finale on Monday evening, Pierre Boulez's "Notations I-IV" and "Notation VII" set beside the Mahler Fifth Symphony.