My own husband, who is an anthropologist, finds my passion for cookbooks peculiar, something on the order of my addiction to thrillers and crossword puzzles.
On "a fine summer afternoon, soft and blue and unportentous", in 1966, "when skirts were extravagantly short", he "suddenly became aware that something peculiar was happening" to him; "barely able to breathe, I huddled against the wall of Balliol".
But it seemed to me by going around in this peculiar way that maybe something could emerge that was succinct as his clothes were, not a coffee table book but — it sounds pretentious — but a book for the bookshelf.
In this new case, though, the flutter in the starlight rises and falls in peculiar ways that suggest something big enough to block vast areas of light while being irregular enough in its transit to suggest something made and manipulated more than something dutifully following a near-Newtonian path.
It becomes clear that there is something peculiar and taboo about this area of the body.
"I am inclined to believe that there is something peculiar about the day itself".
The overall effect is to give viewers who have not been abducted a taste of what it must be like: the time inexplicably lost, the confusion over what "they" want with us and the nagging sense that something very peculiar, and not at all pleasant, is going on.
Small world, you keep thinking, and eventually it might occur to you that something deeply peculiar is going on here: the world of "Tom Bedlam" shrinks just when you'd expect it to be expanding to accommodate the enormous, grave events of 1914 to 1918.
It's during this scene that we noticed something peculiar.
If confirmed, our finding could indicate that there was something peculiar about Italy [5], [23], either in the B. primigenius stocks or in the Neolithic cattle breeding practice.
