Sentence examples for personal peculiar from inspiring English sources

Above all, Ruiz i Altaba says, it's a question of choosing what you want and being consistent: "It's going to be a personal, peculiar choice, and one has to stick by it".

I had been doing cartoons on and off since I was a kid, but didn't think that anyone would like them, because they were very personal and peculiar.

Mr. Emanuel, the former White House chief of staff and a veteran practitioner of campaign imagery and messaging, found himself in a packed basement meeting room here, required to answer — under oath — a long day of fierce, pointed, personal, sometimes peculiar questions from Chicagoans who believe he should not be allowed to run for mayor.

Chancellor's laugh was more than just a peculiar personal affect.

It would not, however, be a panoramic public novel, but an intimate and peculiar personal history, of the kind I have always liked to write.

The most visible casualty so far could be Gene A. Cretz, the ambassador to Libya, who was recalled from his post last month after his name appeared on a cable describing peculiar personal habits of the Libyan leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.

If the instinctual nature of the Bush-Baker enterprise makes it difficult to sort out the question of influence, so does the peculiar personal fit between the two men.

Because, if not wanting a family makes a woman a ball-breaker, wanting one makes you "needy" - as if it were a peculiar personal neurosis, and not an important societal function.

Then, as time went on, Ayers became more like a relative than an interview subject or a source – a person Lopez took on, a little out of obligation, and a little out of a sense of peculiar personal fulfilment.

It not only drove me to locate tremendously worthwhile writing by people like J. G. Ballard, Samuel Delany, and Thomas Disch but also determined that I looked at certain other things — writing by Italo Calvino, Don DeLillo, Angela Carter, and Robert Coover, music by Talking Heads, paintings by de Chirico — according to a peculiar personal index.

That it might have been "the pivotal moment, the turning point that set in train the fateful sequence of events that would eventually lead the world into depression," is in no way trivialized by Mr. Ahamed's emphasis on Norman's peculiar personal style.