Abrahamian views the eccentric scene with a witty eye.
Its masters can promise consumers more choice, but mass marketing leaves less room for dissident views or eccentric tastes, and discourages any leisure that does not involve spending.
Other phenomena such as lipid rafts, exosomes, or unconventional secretion seem to have divided the protagonists into camps of believers and skeptics who consider each other's views too eccentric to even engage.
A gifted young person who chooses to become a mechanic rather than to accumulate academic credentials is viewed as eccentric, if not self-destructive.
Though the word "vegetarianism" was coined only in the 1840s, Stuart shows how Western civilization evolved through the values and views of eccentrics, missionaries, doctors, poets and philosophers, all of whom fervently went the way of no flesh.
Senator Bob Graham of Florida was hurt by his habit of filling diaries with mundane aspects of his day, a practice some in the Gore campaign worried would be viewed as eccentric.
(Smith) ★ MoMA PS1: Ryan Trecartin: 'Any Ever' (through Sept. 3) This game-changing show of seven related videos, viewed amid eccentric seating arrangements procured mostly from Ikea, reflects the combined imagination of a supertalented young artist and his band of merry, cross-dressing pranksters.
(Johnson) ★ MoMA PS1: Ryan Trecartin: 'Any Ever' (through Sept. 3) This game-changing show of seven related videos, viewed amid eccentric seating arrangements procured mostly from Ikea, reflects the combined imagination of a supertalented young artist and his band of merry, cross-dressing pranksters.
It was an unusual choice, but I never looked back, even though at one point I came to feel that computational biology and bioinformatics were viewed as eccentric and unorthodox.
From a layman's point of view these eccentric boxes seem like artefacts from futures past – both anachronistic and modern.
