Sentence examples for were eccentric for from inspiring English sources

The person who ordered it, the New York businessman Charles Levine, stipulated special options that were eccentric for the day – a body by Carrosserie J. Saoutchik, a disappearing top and burgundy lizard skin seats and interior door panels, among them.

In a study on four cyclists, the contraction was eccentric for the biarticular ankle plantar flexors (gastrocnemii) in three subjects [ 39].

The roles he took in these productions were eccentric and usually reserved for low comedians.

It is bizarre that the Republicans and so many commentators are acting as if these citizens are eccentric nuisances for insisting on the basic principle of American democracy.

Radial velocity surveys found exoplanet orbits beyond 0.1 AU to be eccentric, particularly for large planets.

The book is not easy to read, for its organization is eccentric: following journal entries for 1959, for instance, we revert jarringly back to a fragment for 1951, listed by the editor as Appendix I.

He spent the summer as a shepherd — not a shepherd of souls, no, a shepherd of sheep, and not to show off or to be eccentric but happily, for love of the earth and the grass.

He spent the summer as a shepherd not a shepherd of souls, no, a shepherd of sheep, and not to show off or to be eccentric but happily, for love of the earth and the grass.

As Bertrand Russell wrote, "Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric".

The mathematician-philosopher Bertrand Russell once said, "Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric".

Longfellow's new landlady had earned a reputation for being eccentric and often wore a turban.