Why else would Dostoyevsky take such pains describing the examining magistrate in "Crime and Punishment?" Porfiry Petrovich "was a man of about 35, of not quite medium height, corpulent and even paunchy, clean-shaven, with closely cropped hair on a large round head which bulged out rather peculiarly at the back.
Unemployment is around 15%. Argentina is peculiarly at risk from external shocks, like this week's global stockmarket gyrations, because of its unusual, currency-board monetary system.
In a capital city, with clever, independent-minded, day and weekly-boarding pupils, Westminster was peculiarly at risk from student rebellion and the easy availability of drugs.
The Jarawa are peculiarly at risk because they live so close to a holiday resort, but dozens of other extremely remote groups are also in danger.
Among painters, only early Stella seems echt minimalist, because the work is so desolatingly objectlike, though Mangold's dry, shaped paintings, infused with denatured color, feel peculiarly at ease in both shows.
I would say millions is either 3 or 5 million (consider muffins: if you had one muffin, you would have "a muffin". If you had two muffins, you would have "two muffins". If you have three muffins? You have "muffins". Four muffins? Peculiarly, at four, it tips over into "a pack of muffins". And at five? We are back round to "muffins" again. Muffins for millions.
The novel, he contends, is peculiarly adept at exploring this contradiction, because as a form it is created with the premise that it can contain material life (bodies, space and time) while also remaining only an immaterial collection of words on a page.
The cool light filters between the tree trunks at this peculiarly still hunting hour.
Peculiarly, even this hypothesis is based on only a few studies, usually retrospective.
(Bloomberg) At Sea "I suppose it to be a peculiarly English thing, this intense, near-painful fondness for the ocean that surrounds us".
