Facebook certainly chose a peculiar time to announce the imminent death of a platform (and dare I say, operating system) staple: the installation screen.
We can only speculate on the biological mechanisms underlying the peculiar time course of prenatal CPF effects on USVs.
It's a place so singular and remote that it has its own peculiar time zone, 1.5 hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time — though in truth it feels like it's hundreds of years behind: when it's 10 p.m. in New York, it's 1825 on Fogo Island.
The period between submission and announcement of results is a peculiar time.
This has been, as the mayor of London observed, "a peculiar election in peculiar times".
I have, admittedly, a very peculiar relationship with this time of year.
And we also get a sense, perhaps for the first time, of the peculiar gravitational force that has kept that immense asteroid belt of friends and admirers orbiting around White all these years.
But perhaps Nabokov, that prince of nostalgia, would have understood: leaving my books in the order I'd read them permitted me a peculiar kind of time travel.
If there is any lesson from British studies, it is that how the world works is a "peculiar condition of time and place", says Ethan Shagan, who recently took the baton from Vernon as director of Berkeley's centre.
In a way, you and I are also living with a peculiar sense of time.
Instead, it is created with his peculiar sense of time, one that recalls the leisurely, philosophic pace of an earlier age.
