Sentence examples for peculiar success from inspiring English sources

Her "Funny Girl" anthem, "Don't Rain on My Parade," is still the battle cry for an endless procession of star-struck girls; when they stand up in piano bars and yowl, "I'll march my band out, / I'll beat my drum!" in Streisand's melismatic way, they can pretend that her peculiar success story is theirs, too.

The peculiar success of Harry and the Potters has led Paul to "sense a growing affection for us amongst other musicians" and at home.

Even when the show plays a bit with the truth, it's an excellent primer -- sometimes unintentionally so -- on Mr. Trump's peculiar brand of success.

I don't want her in my beer commercial.' " In fact, actors argue that commercial work is peculiar in that success can lead to a lack of work, because an actor can be overexposed.

Yet "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" is a book of wonders — an untamable American classic in the same line as "Leaves of Grass" and "Moby-Dick," a book whose failures of measure and common sense are necessary to its peculiar kind of success.

Hollywood hates party crashers and, like the British upper class, has peculiar customs that preclude success by the uninitiated.

Another peculiar dish was a success, playing the earthiness of fried sweetbreads against the bittersweetness of charred broccoli and the bracing spiciness of pickled cauliflower, and tying it all together with a suave hollandaise infused with smoky ham.

The "previous condition of the intellect, and not the single fact, is really the main and peculiar cause of the success.

That phenomenon explains its peculiar dynamic and striking success.

That attitude may be what makes Taffer's success so peculiar.

While a Republican advocating a governmental monopoly as the best way to insure success sounds peculiar, one need only understand that the New Space revolution threatens the construction of an unnecessary and overpriced new NASA rocket in his home state.