Nor can one deny that there has been considerable eccentricity in his treatment of his son. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
A circle is an ellipse with zero eccentricity. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
His eccentricity is kind of admirable but I'd much rather listen to Daniel Johnston. From Wordnik.com. [Anyone else disturbed by this?] Reference
I have no patience with the so-called eccentricity of genius. From Wordnik.com. [A Fool and His Money] Reference
(Independent) recalls the eccentricity of The Cars and the immediacy of Big Star. From Wordnik.com. [Insomnia Radio: Indie Music Network] Reference
The ellipse can have any eccentricity, that is any measure of deviation from a circle. From Wordnik.com. [SYMMETRY AND ASYMMETRY] Reference
The first cyclical variation, known as eccentricity, controls the shape of the Earth's orbit around the sun. From Wordnik.com. [Causes of climate change] Reference
I think underneath all the so-called eccentricity, which I think is just a mask, there's a very true person. From Wordnik.com. [Bono On Bono]
The eccentricity is part of the fascination. From Wordnik.com. [Genius Within – Glenn Gould « Anglican Samizdat] Reference
Paddy, could you provide some instance of Burrage's "eccentricity"?. From Wordnik.com. [Sound Politics: The tragedy of the Alexander Court: A dozen years of appalling, liberty-destroying rulings] Reference
I agree, an odd little effort but had a kind of eccentricity that endeared. From Wordnik.com. [P-E-P-E] Reference
Enveloped in legend, the reputation of the newcomer for "eccentricity" had preceded her. From Wordnik.com. [The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert] Reference
She was occasionally suspected of that "eccentricity" which, in. From Wordnik.com. [Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of Home] Reference
We have not misunderstood your I'centricity (as opposed to eccentricity which is cool). From Wordnik.com. [CHE > Latest news] Reference
"In America they put people in jail for that kind of eccentricity!" exclaimed Florence. From Wordnik.com. [Love, the Fiddler] Reference
I loved to fall into the common rut, and had a whole-hearted terror of any kind of eccentricity in myself. From Wordnik.com. [Notes from the Underground] Reference
As Jeff said above, the aura of intelligence is a major factor, but there's a kind of eccentricity there that's very appealing. From Wordnik.com. [In Contention] Reference
"eccentricity," Lucy determined to make this point clear. From Wordnik.com. [A Room with a View] Reference
"eccentricity" is common among them; insanity is much rarer. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion] Reference
'eccentricity': a greater-than-normal reliance on stereopsis. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
'eccentricity', even my 'Asperger's syndrome', can, he thinks, be put down to lifelong face blindness. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
"i like Lib Dem 'eccentricity', yet do you think Lib Dem are really different to Labour or Conservative?". From Wordnik.com. [Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk] Reference
'eccentricity' consists in steadily adapting myself to the scientific spiritual, as well as scientific material, laws of the. From Wordnik.com. [Ardath] Reference
Beneath the eccentricity, Rose is something of a moralist. From Wordnik.com. [Last-Minute Reprieve] Reference
His propensity for tearing up is not merely an eccentricity. From Wordnik.com. [Presidential Moisture] Reference
It is thus with every case of defect or eccentricity of person. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
It seem that writers do have some freedom to exercise eccentricity. From Wordnik.com. [Do I Want to Be a Writer ?] Reference
Extremism and eccentricity have no place in the new political order. From Wordnik.com. [Right? Left? Center!] Reference
Researchers stress that AS isn't just a clinical term for eccentricity. From Wordnik.com. [Asperger Syndrome: Autism's Shadow] Reference
Which wins out on Beck's new CD, Odelay: his pop instinct or his eccentricity?. From Wordnik.com. [A Winner, Baby] Reference
One major new work is wildly peculiar, even by Finchian standards of eccentricity. From Wordnik.com. [Exhibit review of Spencer Finch's 'My Business, With the Cloud' at the Corcoran] Reference
And here especially, the eccentricity, the nuttiness of Southern culture shines forth delightfully. From Wordnik.com. [The Arts Games] Reference
Psychological eccentricity is no longer the topic of Tate's narrative melodies, but collective tragedy. From Wordnik.com. [Poetry: What Does It Accomplish?] Reference
This eccentricity gets results: Oberlin graduates have more Ph.D. s than alumni of any other liberal-arts college. From Wordnik.com. [AMERICA'S 25 HOT SCHOOLS] Reference
(Maybe eccentricity, maybe his demanding private life: he has two sons, born in 1972 and 1978, with cerebral palsy.). From Wordnik.com. [In Praise Of Midlife Crisis] Reference
Fashion may be worth £21bn annually to the UK economy, but London fashion week continues to thrive on eccentricity. From Wordnik.com. [Hounds hit London fashion week as Mulberry bags outshine gladrags] Reference
The audience consisted mostly of long-time patrons, of those accustomed to the artist's eccentricity, his insistence on mystery. From Wordnik.com. [Magnum Opus] Reference
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