The fact that Aeneas, as a Trojan, represented an enemy of the Greeks and that tradition left him free after the war made him peculiarly fit for the part assigned him i.e., the founding of Roman greatness.
As long ago as 1879, a guidebook to New York noted the prevalence of Italians in the restaurant trade, "a business for which their natural politeness renders them peculiarly fit".
Yesterday Mr. Stern praised Mr. Ohnesorg's imagination and creative energy, noting that he was leaving to take a role with an important orchestra "that peculiarly fits his talents with their need".
I mean that I was peculiarly fitted to "get the good out of" the convent and the Seminary, not because I was more gifted or cleverer than my classmates but because, thanks to Garfield's plebeian incentives, I was an intellectual by the time I reached Annie Wright.
Hartley writes that language is "one species of algebra," and algebra "nothing more than the language … peculiarly fitted to explain quantity of all kinds" (OM 1, 80).
He seems peculiarly well fitted to speak on this subject, being the sponsor of a lad named Willie Baxter, who has taken us safely through two major wars without any previous military training whatsoever.
That, of course, is a peculiarly literary conceit, which seems only fitting for a people that have historically been literary above all else.
Roy Jenkins, in his 2001 biography, sums up the view that prevailed for the bulk of Churchill's career: There are lines of attack to which some politicians, whether or not they are "guilty as charged," are peculiarly vulnerable because they seem to fit in with their general character and behaviour.
Now in its third location, in a stall at the Essex Street Market, it is still presided over by the peculiarly surly genius of chef Kenny Shopsin, whose hundreds of crazy creations somehow fit onto one double-sided sheet of a menu.
Darkness and horror inspired deeply personal, highly expressive art in a variety of styles, all of which fit under the umbrella of symbolism, as long as they embodied its peculiarly gloomy state of mind (2 ).
