How To Use Idiosyncratic In A Sentence

Though never quite managing to hit commercial paydirt, Glasgow-born singer/songwriter John Martyn has carved out an acclaimed career by purveying an idiosyncratic mix of rock, folk and jazz.
In some ways, the self-taught writer could be called the Southern godmother of feminism, an autodidactic intellectual who carved out her singular role as a woman to be reckoned with on her on terms, in her own idiosyncratic ways, in the most hallowed and male-dominated coven in the country--the Halls of Congress--a generation before Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton emerged on the national stage. Jeff Biggers: "Office Holders Are Desperate": 180 Years Before HuffPo, Anne Royall's Wicked Blogs Held DC Accountable
But, you wouldn't know by looking, because he's an abrasive, arrogant, off-kilter man trying to make his idiosyncratic way in academia.
Stuff which is rather too much for most people, is an acquired taste which appeals to the lopsided and idiosyncratic. Times, Sunday Times
It is difficult to evaluate different systems because they are traditionally idiosyncratic depending on their particular area of specialisation.

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An idiosyncratic use of spacing and punctuation has been part of this writer's equipage for several books, but here she uses these devices more subtly; the use of colons and brackets no longer feels daring, but necessary.
Along the way Gray offers idiosyncratic commentaries on Chaucer, Pepys, Gibbon, Milton and Burns.
Her use of the word is idiosyncratic, and while some may object that its elasticity and multiform character makes it suspect, others may find it a helpful way of conceiving of historical inquiry.
They do not hesitate to dress idiosyncratically, speak dramatically and in general cultivate affectations that would be bizarre in most other professions.
More specifically, there are signs that the photographer put an idiosyncratic and skeptical spin on his appropriation of various graphic tactics and values.
Expecting the idiosyncratic, the bizarre, possibly the androgyne, they were disconcerted when confronted with what THE IMAGE OF LAURA
Empathy here has been reframed as emotion that is "idiosyncratic" -- personal -- a danger to reason. George Lakoff: Empathy, Sotomayor, and Democracy: The Conservative Stealth Strategy
He was no fan of the writer, perhaps in part because he saw in him an image of his own romantic emotivism and self-conscious idiosyncratic bluffness.
And that, as much as its unlikely origins, sums up the idiosyncratic charms of a unique golfing venue.
Penn does a marvelous job in fleshing out the little idiosyncratic elements of his character.
In any case, rules, whether variable or categorial, and the idiosyncratic marking of forms in the lexicon, are not available options in a Cognitive Grammar.
But the real star of the show is Shetland itself, with its stunning landscape and idiosyncratic way of life. Times, Sunday Times
Instead of ink, Woods made all the prints with two fat layers of near-primary-colored gloss enamel paint, an idiosyncratic printing process that contributed to the show's impact.
In retrospect we can see LeÅniewski's obsession with the fine detail of axiomatics and his rejection of semantics as conditioned by his own idiosyncratic development and the predominant research interests of the 1910s and 1920s. StanisÅaw LeÅniewski
They're just so idiosyncratic and quirky - and yet, they're also still being made.
The special history of literary transcendence is ultimately unintelligible and idiosyncratic; its meticulous particularity, a refusal of judgment.
He composed using chance, coincidence and idiosyncratic connections. Times, Sunday Times
Welcome to the idiosyncratic world of Boothby Graffoe - the guitarist comic who lulls his audience into a false sense of security before jolting them with well-aimed barbs.
Since the binding of signifier to signified is non-essential — such that a cigar may just be a cigar — and is often even idiolectic and idiosyncratic — such that what is significant to the advocate, A, may be significant only to them — the conventionality of semantic associations must be taken as a standard of approximate objectivity in order to distinguish the uncoupling of conventionally-accepted pairings (as, say, where the advocate is highlighting a well-established symbolism of anti-Semitism) from the rejection of idiosyncratically-asserted couplings (as, say, where the advocate is reading a pepper mill as a phallic symbol); the former constitutes insignification while the latter is simply a denial of significance. Arguing With Geeks 8
He evangelized for an idiosyncratic version of Henri Bergson's creative evolution, stripped of the Frenchman's lucubrations on space, time, duration, memory, and mind.
The decor is tastefully minimal, largely reliant on dark woods and subdued upholstery, though it avoids lapsing into the prevailing cliches of the self-conscious boutique hotel with some appealing idiosyncratic touches.
While I've already sampled a wide range of only-in-Austin gastronomical delights, I've caught but one film so far, Monkey Warfare [site], a perfect opener, as it's as casually idiosyncratic as the festival itself. GreenCine Daily: Austin Dispatch. 1.
The Italian admits that his management style is idiosyncratic. Times, Sunday Times
It seems almost a truism that the array of beneficial fitness effects must depend idiosyncratically on the biological details of an organism and its environment.
But his determinedly idiosyncratic approach was evident quite early on. Times, Sunday Times
In this epic but essentially unfinished and barely readable work he used a highly idiosyncratic form of language, which he claimed to have reconstructed. Times, Sunday Times
He developed an idiosyncratic, instantly recognizable style that combined figurative expressionism with influences from Klimt, Schiele and Austrian Art Nouveau.
Mild Red stayed true to its trademark of uneven necklines and hemlines, idiosyncratic tucks and darting and the mixed media of wools and wovens
Michelangelo's highly idiosyncratic style of painting
The high the latest fashion that autumn winter series contains clarity is delicate divine marrow, the outside indelicacy of firm independence shows meticulous woman idiosyncratic.
That's the awful irony of the dynamic: that the stubborn, idiosyncratic, self-possessed auteurs getting stiffed in their coffins wouldn't want these nitwits to finish their careers for them.
Throughout the show's run, a succession of ministers and opposition spokesmen sported an array of shirts, in shades ranging from daring yellows through reckless pinks to idiosyncratic olives, taupes and teals.
Such a commission was unignorable, but left no time for 'sleeping images', for idiosyncratic work powered from within. The Times Literary Supplement
After all, it's hard to see how un - could be plausibly reanalyzed as a mere intensifier; more likely this is an idiosyncratic sort of haplology, where the form unpacked stands in for ununpacked.
At 19 he moved to London where he developed his idiosyncratic style while busking in the London Underground.
I did feel pressure to make the movie personal and idiosyncratic, even if it meant being uncommercial or making some viewers scratch their heads and go, ‘What the hell was that?’
While there are several fine left-of-center sites, the blogosphere currently tilts right, albeit idiosyncratically, reflecting the hard-to-pigeonhole politics of some leading bloggers.
Romantic relationships have been presumed unsusceptible to a structure of rules, perhaps because of the widespread belief that love is the most intimate and idiosyncratic of human emotions.
This suggests that idiosyncratic morphological information (e.g. whether an adjective is declinable or not) is accessible in the course of a syntactic derivation.
The rich, painterly textures and sober use of color in his "matter paintings" lent a moving solemnity - the critic John Russell referred to their "seignorial dignity" - to works that "seemed to have been not so much painted as excavated from an idiosyncratic compound of mud, sand, earth, dried blood and powdered minerals. NYT > Home Page
To this end, she mines the unlikely genre of amateur portraiture, not the legacy of the modernist avant-garde, creating idiosyncratic works, as alluring as they are critical.
There's been some talk in the past few years about ‘avant-garde’ poetry and the sacred, and about the potential concordances between idiosyncratic compositional approaches and spiritual practices.
The Divine Comedy is primarily Neil Hannon, an idiosyncratic, vaguely fey Brit who does a mean impression of Thom Yorke doing a mean impression of Cole Porter.
He was a generous man who showed unfailing kindness to junior colleagues, offering them his idiosyncratic insight into the world of academia. Times, Sunday Times
The jagged geometry of supersmooth Europa; the idiosyncratic surfaces of the other orbs floating serenely in space; the pristine interstellar vacuum; the inscrutable emptiness of intergalactic space, that immense, echoing, absolutely featureless void enveloping the spinning galaxies: it all serves as a perfect philosophical mirror image, reflecting back the quandary of the species, the limitations of human knowledge. A Space in Time
Secondly, rating agencies assumed that any losses on housing prices would occur idiosyncratically. Flexibility, Please : Law is Cool
Nor does she swamp the material with idiosyncratic, personal embellishments.
Further, if students believe the criteria to be implicit, then they may see assessment as some sort of lottery in which they experience inequable treatment from idiosyncratic staff.
It was one of the many idiosyncratic tasks that went with close protection of a highly idiosyncratic personality. The Bullet Catchers
The second risk is called idiosyncratic, or specific stock risk. CNN.com
It's very important to me that I write idiosyncratically for the instruments that I'm writing for, because essentially there's a lot of work in the violin repertoire or the piano repertoire that I feel as if I'm not interested in learning, simply because there are some technical aspects of it that just make it difficult to play. Daniel J. Kushner: Ecstatic Music Festival Interview #4: Owen Pallett
As such, his writings express the digressions, meanderings, meditations, ruminations and speculations that characterise a singular, idiosyncratic mind at work.
In the East, the West, and the South the two are neck-in-neck, but Pawlenty hails from an idiosyncratically wine-averse region — a region largely inhabited by people who can trace their ancestry back to the Central European “beer belt”. Matthew Yglesias » The Wine Track
This is the second of the re-formed band 's idiosyncratic outings. Times, Sunday Times
His fans long ago came to terms with the intensely coded, idiosyncratic and bizarre thing that is Dylan.
The views presented here are an eclectic rather than an idiosyncratic choice. Democracy and its Critics - Anglo-American democratic thought in the nineteenth century
When the movie Wayne's World was released in Latin America, a lot of the film's American idiom and idiosyncratic language didn't translate well, if at all.
While it’s true that viruses and bacteria can cause gastroenteric symptoms such as diarrhea, cramping, etc. in your case I would be that it is an idiosyncratic reaction to Slimfast or one of the ingredients therein. I’ll see your ketoacidosis and raise you a renal failure | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
According to the "Postcards from America" Tumblr, these items "combine to represent the idiosyncratically American character that defines this project. Elana Estrin: Book Chronicles "Postcards From America" Road Trip With Magnum Photographers
Rather a kind of idiosyncratic ordering has been sought in relation to the place and task, as opposed to the ready-made orders of type and technique.
The image of Gitanes-puffing, beret-clad Monsieurs enjoying a game of pétanque in the Provençal sunshine is about as idiosyncratically-French as it gets.
He was already beginning to develop an idiosyncratic and flamboyant style of dress.
But from these idiosyncratic beginnings the artists move outwards. Times, Sunday Times
She is warm, funny, idiosyncratic and a dedicated people watcher.
From Dr. Johnson to Winston Churchill, it is the idiosyncratic individual who stirs their imagination, not some unpalatably abstract truth.
Instead I stumbled across a treat, with Kerry O'Keeffe and Terry Alderman idiosyncratically but judiciously analysing Australia's fall from grace and applauding the tourists' mettle and verve. Aussie cricket commentators have been a breath of fresh air on air | Rob Bagchi
The author has a distinctive, idiosyncratic style that draws you in and keeps you reading.
It's an idiosyncratic formula, arrived at in haphazard fashion. Times, Sunday Times
This blithely idiosyncratic, almost dialogue-free animated film concerns an old lady's quest to recover her grandson after he is mysteriously kidnapped during the Tour de France.
She sees him as idiosyncratic, traditionalist, and with a gift for combining political shrewdness with a sense of self-promotion and opportunism.
Last week some of the 87 staff were still unpacking crates and the creatives were faced with pristine white walls ready for all the doodles and idiosyncratic squiggles you'd expect in an advertising house.
Kiaer's idiosyncratic palette is filled with strong tonal contrasts, which add to the push-pull effect.
The differences are sometimes idiosyncratic, but they may also reflect deeper divisions of allegiance.
I think the love of trifle came only after I was allowed to drink alcohol and I hoed in after a few glasses of chardonnay when my weird, idiosyncratic eating behaviour slipped for a bit. Rum Balls and The Box « Write Anything
Yet his book is also idiosyncratic both in style and in some points of detail. The Times Literary Supplement
Each makes up a voice and an idiosyncratic map for its own city. Times, Sunday Times
Though elegantly acted and shot overall, Man on the Train works best in its minutest parts, little idiosyncratic touches that bring humanity and humour to the mounting corniness.
A passionate advocate for the avant-garde in both literature and film, B.S. Johnson gained notoriety for his forthright views on the future of the novel and for his idiosyncratic ways of putting them into practice.
It's wilfully eclectic and rampantly idiosyncratic.
She dabbled in the visual arts, published an idiosyncratic zine called What Are You Dealing With?
From the beginning his audience - and there was always an audience - were in thrall to his idiosyncratic and impassioned deliveries.
He has also succeeded in seamlessly weaving his subject's idiosyncratic way of expressing himself into a compelling literary narrative form. Times, Sunday Times
Individualistic and even idiosyncratic as Badri's style can be, no viewer can complain that his paintings are obscure or difficult to understand.
Some patients have an idiosyncratic response to cyclic antidepressants that are potent serotonin uptake blockers e.g., fluoxetine and develop a syndrome characterized by restlessness, hyperreflexia, myoclonus, insomnia, diaphoresis, nausea, diarrhea, and abdominal cramps. The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
Christianity fares very poorly according those standards; Buddhism somewhat better; and his idiosyncratic, "Dionysian" faith fares very well -- as he says, it is "the highest of all possible faiths. What is an Atheist?
With the destruction of the clockworks, that is, at the end of time, all rituals will be personal and idiosyncratic, serving not to unify a community/cult in a common cause but to link each single individual with the universe in whatever manner suits him or her best. Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
His black comedy and his portmanteau romcom Trivial Matters are both biting, complex, visually stunning and highly idiosyncratic works., his latest project, looks like a deceptively bouncy horror comedy. New York Press
Outdated voting mechanisms, a decentralised, idiosyncratic procedure, and the archaic electoral college have received comment.
All of these areas have contained the right blend of idiosyncratic factors of production.
On his own highly idiosyncratic terms, he revisits the conflict between Christian and pagan thought that marked Iceland's early days and carries out his own syntheses.
Will this highly listenable, 11-track collection do anything to change Cake from a cult band with a devoted audience to wise sages of idiosyncratic rock worthy of widespread attention and hosannas from the blogosphere? Album review: Cake, "Showroom of Compassion"
The only real problems are the puzzles, which are too reliant on notes you'll struggle to remember and idiosyncratic leaps of logic. Times, Sunday Times
Caesar salad in a tart, eggy dressing also has its own idiosyncratic style.
Or whether it was a beacon of false hope lit by the unique electricity of a motley group with an idiosyncratic manager. Times, Sunday Times
He dapples and sprays his canvas with sound, and the fact he is self-taught makes his music even more idiosyncratic and unique.
All that we have to show for nearly six decades of post-colonial art is a single monumental conspectus: an indispensable, if idiosyncratically argued, overview of art in India from the 1890s to the 1990s.
It is idiosyncratic to the individual carer, staff member, or nursing home.
This idiosyncratic arrangement served a loose colony of (doubtless whiffy) painters. Times, Sunday Times
Bonny Hicks appeared to me to be the paradigmatic example of an autonomous, free-choosing individual who decided early on to construct a lifestyle congenial to her idiosyncratic sense of self-expression.
One of the most colorful and idiosyncratic expressions of American folk art is the hooked rug.
He was a generous man who showed unfailing kindness to junior colleagues, offering them his idiosyncratic insight into the world of academia. Times, Sunday Times
But Barker? as the show's know-all, know-nothing pawnshop assistant, dispensing gnomic advice about women and America? appears in almost every episode and is (alongside fellow standups Kristen Schaal and Rhys Darby) one-fifth of the idiosyncratic quintet that made the show so kookily enjoyable. Arj Barker: Landing of the Conchord
Of course, that comes with certain idiosyncratic positions — not so good on gay rights, very good on the right to kill foxes for fun. Matthew Yglesias » Institutions Matter
Thompson was no fan of Orwell, perhaps in part because he saw in him an image of his own romantic emotivism and self-conscious idiosyncratic bluffness.
In some ways, the self-taught writer could be called the Southern godmother of feminism, an autodidactic intellectual who carved out her singular role as a woman to be reckoned with on her on terms, in her own idiosyncratic ways, in the most hallowed and male-dominated coven in the country -- the Halls of Congress -- a generation before Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton emerged on the national stage. Jeff Biggers: "Office Holders Are Desperate": 180 Years Before HuffPo, Anne Royall's Wicked Blogs Held DC Accountable
Outdated voting mechanisms, a decentralised, idiosyncratic procedure, and the archaic electoral college have received comment.
Bonny Hicks appeared to me to be the paradigmatic example of an autonomous, free-choosing individual who decided early on to construct a lifestyle congenial to her idiosyncratic sense of self-expression.
As such, his writings express the digressions, meanderings, meditations, ruminations and speculations that characterise a singular, idiosyncratic mind at work.
The real question isn't groupware vs . the intranet. Rather, it's how best to meet idiosyncratic customer needs.
They inhabit some idiosyncratic space between harmony and modality, neither more one than the other.
This is perhaps where most readers depart company with Bloom, concluding that his kind of reading is finally an idiosyncratic and insular one, Bloom himself seated aloft in his own peculiar aesthetic empyrean. Principles of Literary Criticism
Were the architects inspired by sculpture when they designed the idiosyncratic form of the Seattle Public Library?
While Tuttle's art is offbeat and idiosyncratic, it is also very much mainstream.
Such a reading allows us to acknowledge the basic problem with mapping Blakean images in America to historical referents — namely (to paraphrase Saree Makdisi) that the more specific we are in mapping, the more we seem to make obscure the prophecy of the poem — but at the same time this reading moves us beyond the alternative strategy of reading the poem as simply an example of "the idiosyncratic world of Blake's vision. Introduction
Where Mr. Calderazzo is a versatile bebopper who can play in many styles, Mr. Connick's keyboard work is as idiosyncratic and endearing as his singing, steeped in the Crescent City masters like his hero, James Booker . The Jazz Scene: Pay Attention to the Words
It's an idiosyncratic formula, arrived at in haphazard fashion. Times, Sunday Times
It remains to be seen whether Irish television can prove a sympathetic home for more idiosyncratic talents than that.
Forget about all the psychotic blabber and idiosyncratic ramblings about visions in his head.
Tom Phillips presented a typically idiosyncratic arrangement of 40 sheets of Minutes from RA meetings on which he'd doodled quite exquisitely.
All that we have to show for nearly six decades of post-colonial art is a single monumental conspectus: an indispensable, if idiosyncratically argued, overview of art in India from the 1890s to the 1990s.
Is joy, in contrast to sorrow, a more individual, idiosyncratic emotion about which generalisation is inappropriate?
Zeroing in on the word "contraception," many commentators have taken delight in pointing to surveys about the use of contraceptives among Catholics, the message being that any infringement of religious freedom involves an idiosyncratic position that doesn't affect that many people. United We Stand for Religious Freedom
Forty years later, Barrow takes The Queue and uses it as a highly idiosyncratic maypole around which stories of the brothers' childhood, adolescence and early adulthood cavort and whirl. Animal Magic: A Brother's Story by Andrew Barrow – review
That is, idiosyncratic behavior may develop adventitiously.
Just take a look at some of Palin's infamous "word salads" -- as my friends in Alaska call her idiosyncratic manner of slinging phrases together -- and it becomes all too clear. Geoffrey Dunn: Palin No Longer Writing Her Own Script
A dramatic acute dystonic syndrome occurs as an idiosyncratic reaction early in treatment with phenothiazines, haloperidol, or metoclopramide.
Penn does a marvelous job in fleshing out the little idiosyncratic elements of his character.
Such suspicions will only be confirmed by Gibson's idiosyncratic logorrhea in interviews before a hostile press which can and will use everything he says against him.
But in their rush to save Christianity, some evangelicals have been guilty of all sorts of strained, idiosyncratic or obscurantist tactics: massaging or distorting the data, manipulating the legal system, scaring their constituencies and strong-arming those of their own camp who raise questions. Pete Enns: Once More, With Feeling: Adam, Evolution And Evangelicals
Whether discussing sewer scavengers or dustmen, beggars or prostitutes, he would begin by carefully noting their physical appearance and often idiosyncratic garb: The rat-catcher's dress is usually a velveteen jacket, strong corduroy trousers, and laced boots. Sociology most Dickensian
His operating model is thus entirely personal, and entirely idiosyncratic.
The Julie/Julia Project was an entry-by-entry accounting of her offsetting her workaday life by cooking her way through Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume 1, which is comprised of 500+ often idiosyncratic recipes like poulet poele a l'estragon (page 249), veau sylvie (page 357), and jambon farci et braise (page 394). Elissa Altman: Julia, Julie, Judith, and Me
English employs reflexive derivation idiosyncratically, as in "self-destruct"; Romance languages do the same with the Greek-derived prefix auto -. Page 2
But to my medically untutored mind, operations seem at least as idiosyncratic in their success and effects, and thus harder for markets to monitor in quality.
Her views on doctrinal matters seem to have been idiosyncratic to say the least. The Times Literary Supplement
In his Saturday night set, Dylan's voice was as good as could be expected - that is, a croak with zero range, but with most of the words delivered, and his phrasing as random and idiosyncratic as can be imagined. Expecting Rain
Other high points on the menu involve respectable fajitas made with Angus beef, and a wonderfully idiosyncratic fajita variant called the La Playa taco.
It came out very well, though it was fiendishly difficult - the house dates to the 1630s and has very idiosyncratic windows arranged with total lack of symmetry.
No matter what, there are some times that you reasonable be dressed to explain to everyone that you dire term insensible from everybody but that idiosyncratic person. Article directories Celibataire Urbaine
Bonny Hicks appeared to me to be the paradigmatic example of an autonomous, free-choosing individual who decided early on to construct a lifestyle congenial to her idiosyncratic sense of self-expression.
He clear vision, prophetic spirit and idiosyncratic musical style stand out in the Australian musical world.
The increase in political turmoil is making investors look more at the idiosyncratic risks of each emerging market," says Alex Bellefleur , a financial economist at investment bank Brockhouse & Cooper Inc. in Montreal. How to Play the Emerging Markets
Francis Towne was a landscape painter whose idiosyncratic style relied on economic and careful pen outlines and flat muted washes of colour.
Continuum of anomalousness: Gentle vs Intense, Orthodox vs Idiosyncratic, No sensory elements vs Clear 'hallucinations', Connectedness vs Loss of self, Transient vs Extended, Not paranormal vs Strong 'paranormal'. Planet Atheism
But those who have seen him at work say his idiosyncratic style is effective. Times, Sunday Times
They disaggregate volatility of individual stocks in three components: market related, industry-specific, and idiosyncratic firm-level volatility.
Here she manages five idiosyncratic and duly varied performances that will not be outshone by an almost continuous dishabille and brief nudity (mostly from the back) that would be enough to eclipse many a lesser talent.
Such suspicions will only be confirmed by Gibson's idiosyncratic logorrhea in interviews before a hostile press which can and will use everything he says against him.
Moreover, these goals are often highly idiosyncratic, scored from a chance rebound, or a fluky flick-on. Times, Sunday Times
Or take the case of Michael Graves's multiple proposals for an addition to Breuer's Whitney Museum," Mr. Semes continues, referring to the idiosyncratic 1966 structure on Madison Avenue. The Bias Against Tradition
In short, this is about as idiosyncratic as garage rock gets.
The aim of linguistic research is to discover the general rules, not to list the idiosyncratic and the irregular.
In his weird, idiosyncratic kind of way. Times, Sunday Times
Which leads to Howard's decisive conclusion, "The drums are always pretty pummeling and jungley, the vocals are kind of squirrelly and fluttery, and the guitars are idiosyncratic and bounce off of each other. Daily Vanguard RSS
Alongside recognizable amphorae, kraters and jars, we find some idiosyncratic and adventurous objects. The Times Literary Supplement
As a whole, these patterns of early modern thought help demystify subject positions that have frequently been perceived as either enigmatic or idiosyncratic.
They know how hard it is to appear so effortless, how well she conceals her intense reflection and labor in order to lead us into her idiosyncratic scatters of color and form.
O'Connor, for my taste, is the great artist of the group, with a purity and intensity of ambition that is utterly idiosyncratic and unaccountable.
In retracing Hegel's itinerary he is in a way making it less idiosyncratic, less the vision of a lone philosopher, and more a familiar sight.
An infuriating, idiosyncratic critic can’t help but be elegiac in cataloguing the history of film. The Reel Thing
Some patients have an idiosyncratic response to cyclic antidepressants that are potent serotonin uptake blockers e.g., fluoxetine and develop a syndrome characterized by restlessness, hyperreflexia, myoclonus, insomnia, diaphoresis, nausea, diarrhea, and abdominal cramps. The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
They said I was jumping down from my perch and turning myself into just another bloviator in the unregulated, highly idiosyncratic and often preposterously self-indulgent crowd of bloggers.
In contrast, an out-of-class semantic or verbal paraphasia is so far removed from the actual thing that the utterance seems idiosyncratic and the meaning is obscure: private word usage. The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
But alongside his prophetic insights were many idiosyncratic and sometimes silly arguments.
This space, crammed with knowledge and utterly idiosyncratic, is the real mirror to him. Times, Sunday Times
A trip up the Thames from Southend-On-Sea to the Houses of Parliament provides him with many fine opportunities to indulge in his own idiosyncratic brand of taradiddles and horseplay.
The typesetting of the book also jars, with line gaps between every paragraph and a rather idiosyncratic bibliographical layout. The Times Literary Supplement
Yet even they must honour the astonishing ingenuity with which he furnishes clues that tempt you in one direction when quite another is wanted; serves up idiosyncratic treats like his alphabetical crosswords, where you have to fill the answers into an unnumbered grid; or somehow gathers so many composers or cattle or cricket grounds into one puzzle that his customers gasp in wonder. In praise of … Araucaria | Editorial
Longer legs and great posture would be very welcome What makes your style idiosyncratic? Times, Sunday Times
One of the many distinctive and memorable features of the show was the musical score by Edwin Astley, which heavily featured the harpsichord and some very, very idiosyncratic "cool jazz" arrangements, ultra-heavy on the bongoes, making it on of the more memorable TV scores of the 1960's. Sounds for spies and Dangerous Guys!
Outdated voting mechanisms, a decentralised, idiosyncratic procedure, and the archaic electoral college have received comment.
But as boss of Securitas for 13 years, he has cannily plotted the group's growth by acquisition, first across Europe, then through America, doing things his own idiosyncratic way.
His idiosyncratic style fathered no new language of art in this country. Times, Sunday Times
At a time when most bookstores have enough floor space to sell station wagons or livestock, Query Books is one of the pleasant anomalies - a smartly and idiosyncratically stocked shop with more character than square footage.
They are reclusive and idiosyncratic, dwelling in exquisite mansions far from each other with their families and a select band of retainers.
Most languages can adopt theme-rheme structure idiosyncratically — as for English, we often use as for theme constructions — but topic-prominent languages use systematic changes in syntax or even dedicated morpological elements such as the Japanese clitic particle -wa to mark themes and to set them apart from rhemes. Archive 2008-02-01
The resulting image is compelling, perplex and idiosyncratic; a pagan Catholic Cirque du Soleil. John Seed: Matthew Couper: A Devotional Painter in Las Vegas
Mr. Koster's touring companions this year include Robbie Cucchiaro , 37, and Ian Ludders , 33, fellow Music Tapes bandmates who play a share of idiosyncratic instruments—trombone, euphonium, toy piano—between them. Singing Saw's Christmastime Tour
More than one high school girl has been dismayed to learn that the one boy she personally, idiosyncratically found "cute" is a general heartthrob. A Quiet Genius
Strathspeys, jigs, reels and hornpipes from various sources are all fed through Greenberg and McGuinness's loving, yet idiosyncratic arrangements.
The selection is idiosyncratic in other ways, too. The Times Literary Supplement
On the other hand, there were five artists from Bidyadanga, a remote West Australian community producing vibrant idiosyncratically coloured canvases, which have shot up in price in the past 12 months.
This superb (and idiosyncratic) Hebrew stylist has long been associated in the Israeli literary mind with Virginia Woolf, on two counts: the uniqueness of her poetics, and her thematization of women’s plight, on a scale previously unrivalled in Hebrew literature. Amalia Kahana-Carmon.
Bonny Hicks appeared to me to be the paradigmatic example of an autonomous, free-choosing individual who decided early on to construct a lifestyle congenial to her idiosyncratic sense of self-expression.
Here it sullies the work of an otherwise extraordinary, inspiring and idiosyncratic mind. Times, Sunday Times
However, despite the popular presentation, one wishes the historical presentation were more accurate and the theological issues, particularly ecclesiology, less idiosyncratic.
Always an idiosyncratic individualist, he seems to have introduced his own pronunciations for the names of players.
What we require of our modern spirituality is intimate content—the wisdom of usefully idiosyncratic thought.
When a lot of diverse people pursue their idiosyncratic interests, unexpected things happen.
“Unreasonable” is, of course informally defined and therefore arguable: as with the Argument by Insignification, conventionality may offer a standard of approximate objectivity by which significance can be deemed idiolectic and idiosyncratic, an eccentric invention, or validated as a more perceptive reading; ISMs will often lead to Import Artifices, but the subcultural semantic associations which lead to them may also legitimise significances within one community that another would consider spurious; accusations of Import Artifices should therefore be interrogated for evidence of a Subtextual Sensitivity Differential. posted by Hal Duncan | 1: 12 PM Archive 2009-03-01
The other type of risk is idiosyncratic risk, or risk that is unique to an individual in the market.
Whilst the palette remains as colourful, and the framing as idiosyncratic, as ever, the material he has worked with has grown gradually more mature.
As his manuscript swelled, the publishers became unhappy with its idiosyncratic style. Times, Sunday Times
Its trio of heroines are cute, with an active, aggressive edge that sets them apart from their vapid moe counterparts, and the Witches 'Realm has a whimsical, fairy-tale design that recalls the idiosyncratic visions of animators like Terry Gilliam and Tim Burton more than the standardized cotton-candy fluff of Petite Princess Yucie or Anime News Network
However grand or private or idiosyncratic a state of affairs I have in mind, I can go on hoping for it in the only way that remains possible to me.

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