Sentence examples for peculiarities like from inspiring English sources

Peculiarities like the remains of fossilized monkey puzzle tree that the Victorians called Whitby Jet and used to make mourning jewelry turn up again suddenly, ready to be back in style.

Its size has made it full of peculiarities, like the rubber shock absorber that softens the buffeting of the wind, and elevators whose movements are tracked by a worm screw instead of a computer.

One was Shail Upadhya, whose work as a Nepalese diplomat is perhaps less memorable than his penchant for polka dots, Pucci prints and other assorted peculiarities, like a self-designed floral-print coat made from his retired sofa.

The newspaper he built was full of idiosyncrasies and peculiarities, like the use of line drawings on the front page instead of photographs, the heavy use of peppy news briefs in lieu of stories, the not very funny daily cartoon cornily titled "Pepper... and Salt," the right-wing editorial page, and the goofy human-interest story in the middle of every day's front page.

The detailed sections on feet and spurs and, especially, combs make one ponder about the adaptive and evolutionary purposes that lead to peculiarities like, say, the comb of the Minorca black hen, something like a many-fingered red rubber glove abandoned on her head.

On display in the History Room is an array of the Oneida Community's inventions, like the Victor mousetrap and the lazy Susan, as well as some of their peculiarities, like the knee-length dresses-over-pants costumes that the women wore.

All of which is a tribute to the life-like peculiarities of the tennis-scoring system whereby sudden death and perpetual extension are inextricably paired.

I have certain peculiarities and sensitivities, likes and aversions, shortcomings and strengths.

With examples like this it is easy to see the force of Kotkin's argument that Russia's problem since 1991 has been a "problem of institutions" and not "some supposed 'cultural' deficiency or peculiarity" -- like the common Western prejudice that the Russians are inclined to criminality.

Although this generation, on average, has its peculiarities--like every previous generation--it also has virtues that rarely register in the popular accounts.

It is well known that for some potentials, such as, e.g., the 3D isotropic harmonic trap [ 14, 16, 18, 19, 34, 35], the heat capacity has a cusp-like peculiarity as it passes through the critical temperature while for the 1D quadratic potential it is a smooth function of T [ 16, 18, 35].