From their faces, hands, and clothes they emanate the rich color, almost like warmth, peculiar to compacted humanity.
Rather, the book tells of her joining European colleagues (Nicolas Sarkozy and Gordon Brown) in asking each other if it is only to him or to her that the American president seems so "peculiar, distant, and short on warmth".
After reading them, I sat down and wrote a piece about the two men's very peculiar exchange, commenting on its unexpected warmth despite their acute differences in temperament.
Poussin may have gone down in British reputation as a cold, calculating artist of little warmth, but this is a vision of peculiar delicacy and feeling.
It seems both peculiar and somehow fitting that the first real ray of comic warmth in the production should come courtesy of one of Shakespeare's most famous melancholics, the vagabond philosopher Jaques, played with sly and subtle wit by the terrific British actor Stephen Dillane.
Boyle promised a ceremony with which everyone would feel involved; he said, "I hope it will reveal how peculiar and contrary we are – and how there's also, I hope, a warmth about us".
The pet serpent becomes a peculiar character in its own right, its reptilian coolness and shedding of skin reflecting Bekim's progressive loss of his own warmth.
