Sentence examples for peculiar personalities from inspiring English sources

Inevitably, presidential campaigns take on the peculiar personalities of the candidates themselves.

But its more significant, if not wholly convincing, achievement is to connect the unevenness of their policy-making performance with the ups and downs of their peculiar personalities.

Picking up a piece at a booth could set off a mini-lecture about the historical forces and peculiar personalities that shaped the original design, the enduring mysteries surrounding its production and survival, and maybe why its price is so reasonable.

But this is a film full of peculiar personalities whose often contradictory points of view make its fabric and whose expression is its poetry.

Frustratingly for some and magnetically for others, our peculiar personalities can't be packaged or predicted, and our eccentric friend groups are too motley to label.

"What's striking is not just that there a few peculiar personalities that account for so many death sentences, but that their overzealous support for capital punishment comes paired with underzealous commitment to the rules and regulations that promote fairness and accuracy," Rob Smith, senior research fellow and director of Harvard Law's Fair Punishment Project, told The Huffington Post.

Kotkin proposes a series of interlocking arguments to explain the Stalinist outcome: the conspiratorial rigidity of Bolshevism; the state's total domination of life in the absence of private property; the peculiar personality of Stalin; and the pressures of geopolitics.

Von Blumenthal said he suspected that the announcement was more of a publicity stunt, in keeping with what he described as the "peculiar" personality of SolarWorld chief executive Frank Asbeck.

What seizes us, more than the actual breaking of the code (since, to be honest, it's almost impossible to understand how that was done), is Turing's peculiar personality – his mixture of decency and diffidence, his complete (and therefore hilarious) inability to tell a joke and the obsessive way that he rouses himself from his academic civility to do whatever it takes.

Underlying Gibson's reaction is his peculiar personality.

Given John's sweet but peculiar personality, Reed decided to meet John in Alabama and see where the story could go.