Hannah attracted critical acclaim with his first novel, "Geronimo Rex," which was nominated for a National Book Award in 1972, a book that established him as a serious literary talent capable of stringing together tender, haunting sentences where peculiar words whir around each other, colliding unexpectedly.
However, these whole sentences are peculiar insofar as the relevant presentations have contents of judgment as their objects.
This inordinate use of the life sentence is peculiar to us.
Concepts are obviously subject to the type-token distinction, which enables one to understand otherwise peculiar sentences such as John's concept of God is different from Mary's.
"For example, we often use nonspecific verbs, 'He went to town.' In Algonquian, you have to tell the mode of travel, 'He walked to town.' " The peculiar sentence structure required changes in the Indian translation.
This sentence would be very peculiar when uttered out of the blue, or in any context where no salient person was under discussion who could be pregnant.
The enigmatic patience of the sentences, the pedantic syntax, the peculiar antiquity of the diction, the strange recessed distance of the writing, in which everything seems milky and sub-aqueous, just beyond reach – all of this gives Sebald his particular flavour, so that sometimes it seems that we are reading not a particular writer but an emanation of literature.
When he pronounced the sentence on Mr. Forrester he had a peculiar expression on his face due to the fact that, for the first time in some years, he had an erection as he spoke; he had an involuntary orgasm.
Lacey writes with a peculiar suppleness entirely her own; her sentences have a way of dancing around common turns and spinning off in strange directions.
While his sentence — which I will expand upon later — is peculiar, the ordeal that led to his receiving it is sadly too common.
