Sentence examples for peculiar powers from inspiring English sources

"I would like, above all, to recall the technique of his right hand," wrote Chailly, praising what he said were its peculiar powers.

The result is an extraordinary group of figures, some of them 10 or 12ft tall and all of them with peculiar powers of kinesis.

Here are the Westcotts upon first discovering the machine's peculiar powers: Jim turned to another station, and the living room was filled with the uproar of a cocktail party that had overshot its mark.

Exercising what Barbara Packer calls "her peculiar powers of intrusion and caress" (P, 443), Fuller became friends with many of the transcendentalists, including Emerson.

In an interview with MoMA curatorial assistant Michelle Millar Fisher, Baker described first noticing the peculiar powers of a flag in 1976, on the Bicentennial of the United States, when processing the omnipresence and immediate legibility of the American flag.

He acknowledged the peculiar power of music to express many nuances of the emotions.

It was the combination of distribution and programming that gave Sky its peculiar power.

The creepy types are haunting, he believes, due to their "peculiar power of attraction".

A concrete title affixed to an abstract piece of music has peculiar power.

My confusion spoke to the peculiar power of women in the classroom.

Many duplicates beautifully convey the peculiar power of handwriting, threatened with extinction in the digitised age.