He has also eliminated the tale's cruelty, sending the peculiar "duckling" on a quest to find out what he really is rather than on an escape from insults.
All of which has created a new quest in a peculiar summer: the need to fully escape a city and return refreshed and changed, but not broke.
In its quest to be as peculiar and anti-mainstream as possible, however, early freak-folk music bordered on exasperating.
He transformed his particular part of south London into a place of shadows and loss, of restless questing and melancholy longing, achieving a peculiar kind of urban pastoral.
But we all know it's a jungle out there, and there is a sort of Quixotic quality in Rovira's quest, because he comes from a very peculiar latitude on Earth, a Caribbean island trapped in a political limbo.
Poets and philosophers have long been attuned to the fact that the quest for immortality drives much of humanity's peculiar ways.
It's the kids' obsessions and their peculiar limitations as human beings that matter to her; also, the quest and the goods themselves.
In its quest for an original take on Baum's evolution, "The Real Wizard of Oz" uses a peculiar geographical structure, with the book divided into five sections that are also essentially chronological.
In such peculiar circumstances, another strategic life-insurance stake fuels the escalation of both egalitarian solidarity and synergistic competition, the quest for differential merit remaining a daily necessity so as to eventually win preferential assistance in times of collective hardship.
In recent weeks, the quest for the seat that Senator Peter G. Fitzgerald, a Republican, will leave open has taken a series of peculiar turns.
