Sentence examples for peculiarly as from inspiring English sources

He was dressed peculiarly, as he had been on the road — in a yellow helmet, a flaglike blue cape with white stars on it, and denims — and the crowd at once joined him in singing: "You've got to move when the spirit say move, Move when the spirit say move.

The serial imagery is peculiarly compelling, as is the time-lapse film, beamed on to a wall in a continuous loop.

We're a self-absorbed species, and one wrinkle of our self-absorption is our tendency, reflected in our art and entertainment, to believe that there's no passage of human existence as fraught with perils and as peculiarly significant as the one we just so happen to be going through.

TO FOREIGNERS, few things seem as peculiarly British as the habit of sending young children away from home to school.

One can make a case for transcriptions on modern instruments and even for ensembles as peculiarly appointed as the one assembled for the madrigals.

And while the bottom of the jaw is lined with thick, close-set teeth, it is as peculiarly narrow as it is long, like a protuberance designed for probing.

China has a world-leading knack for churning out copies and counterfeits, and the release of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" last month prompted a surge of peculiarly Chinese imitations as well as a quickie unauthorized translation.

Manchester United fans were peculiarly quiet, as if resigned to the club's fate as a foil to Barcelona's legacy.

Worse, I felt peculiarly dull, as if part of me was no longer alive.

We know that Graeme Swann, after his extraordinary mid-tour retirement, peculiarly portrayed as a selfless act, will not reappear.

It is a mutual performance of sorts, and peculiarly vivid, as if one could enter and alter a film.