Sentence examples for peculiarly on from inspiring English sources

He was peculiarly on edge, while his brother looked to be settling in comfortably enough in a low-key start.

While fostering old resentments from Mr. Seinfeld's boyhood in Massapequa, on Long Island -- apparently he hasn't been as generous to the local high school as have the Baldwin brothers, who also grew up there; this book also harps peculiarly on the Jewishness of the Seinfeld family.

Second, we show that its power depends peculiarly on the variance of QTL effects.

In some places immense monolithic boulders of diorite are peculiarly piled on top of one another.

Certainly the man's own upbringing on the Isle of Wight reads like a peculiarly anglicised take on the Ripley tale.

I say "peculiarly" because, on the face of it, Waiting for Godot is one of the most iconically incomprehensible plays of the modern era.

They are also peculiarly dependent on summer internships, offered between the first and second years, as a way for students to secure full-time jobs once they graduate.

"The very idea of a bridge, of course, is a form peculiarly dependent on... spiritual convictions," he wrote to Waldo Frank in 1926.

And many of the remainder are boarded up, their owners victims of a foreclosure epidemic that has fallen peculiarly hard on poor, minority, communities.

Matt Wolf of The New York Times panned the original run with statements such as "a potential dance sensation seems peculiarly short on actual dance" and "But a dream ballet late in the first act and various set pieces later seem, in terms of actual choreography, oddly pro forma for Bourne... ..

Politicians need a quick corridor story to sell their country's virtues, and David Cameron has landed on a peculiarly ill-informed one.