Concepts are obviously subject to the type-token distinction, which enables one to understand otherwise peculiar sentences such as John's concept of God is different from Mary's.
But there are also valid sentences peculiar to Kaplan's logic of indexicals.
This inordinate use of the life sentence is peculiar to us.
Hannah attracted critical acclaim with his first novel, "Geronimo Rex," which was nominated for a National Book Award in 1972, a book that established him as a serious literary talent capable of stringing together tender, haunting sentences where peculiar words whir around each other, colliding unexpectedly.
Not only is the work barren of plot or narrative drama, but Gaddis also deploys a peculiar, disconcerting prose idiom: sentences that use a jumpy splice technique to recreate the state of mind of a dying man who is dosing himself with the oral steroid prednisone.
However, these whole sentences are peculiar insofar as the relevant presentations have contents of judgment as their objects.
This sentence would be very peculiar when uttered out of the blue, or in any context where no salient person was under discussion who could be pregnant.
Lacey writes with a peculiar suppleness entirely her own; her sentences have a way of dancing around common turns and spinning off in strange directions.
But when we heard Stott deploying that peculiar east coast accent in which some sentences pitch and fade in unexpected places we knew he could only have been a Fifer living in the Shortbread City.
Thinking on this peculiar fact, the Minister got stuck on a sentence: I am further from my village now than I have ever been.
