These peculiarly cinematic elements. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : peculiar happenings. ,the peculiar hobby of stuffing and mounting bats. ,an expression peculiar to Canadians. ,the peculiar properties of a drug. From Dictionary.com.
Fortunately for an answer to this question, air is as vital to change in the inorganic processes of nature as it is to those other changes which we call peculiarly life. From Wordnik.com. [Mars] Reference
Breakfast was an excitement shared in peculiarly by the Ancient. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 14] Reference
They've created new American characters as well, placed in peculiarly American settings. From Wordnik.com. [HBO's 'Little Britain USA' lends us lots of laughs] Reference
This central factor is indicated by the descriptive title peculiarly applied to modern industry, Capitalism. From Wordnik.com. [The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production] Reference
Its effect, peculiarly, is to magnify much of the nonsense on this subject that has cluttered the public mind for more than 40 years. From Wordnik.com. [A Knoll of One’s Own] Reference
And with those who are friends from other countries, so far as their traditions and experiences go, it is the same; but with our own kith and kin peculiarly it is so. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scout Movement] Reference
John Dumont -- its expression peculiarly arrogant and sinister. From Wordnik.com. [The Cost] Reference
A word peculiarly unwelcome to Marmaduke Nevile, who was an animal thoroughly social and gregarious. From Wordnik.com. [The Last of the Barons — Complete] Reference
From the center of the page stared a picture of John Dumont -- its expression peculiarly arrogant and sinister. From Wordnik.com. [The Cost] Reference
The poems embraced in the collection, have been written at all periods of my life, and therefore cannot be called peculiarly Western. From Wordnik.com. [The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems] Reference
The long association of the Air Force with the Army precludes any large body of custom and tradition that can be called peculiarly Air. From Wordnik.com. [The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2] Reference
There is I know not what of wild happiness of thought and expression peculiarly beautiful in the old Scottish song style, of which his. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham] Reference
Fielding, Smollett, and Goldsmith; but at the same time has given to his material an individual coloring and expression peculiarly his own. From Wordnik.com. [The American Family Robinson or, The Adventures of a Family lost in the Great Desert of the West] Reference
In his letter to Lord John Russell, the Bishop alludes to two of these decisions in terms peculiarly objectionable, while he omits all reference to the latter. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada] Reference
A name peculiarly appropriated to Aquitain and the ancient Narbonnese, which had long since exchanged their Celtic rudeness for the useful and elegant arts of Italy. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3] Reference
Moore was not surprised at it in reality, it is true; he only made-believe to be so, and that because Lord Byron was wanting in some of those virtues called peculiarly English. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Byron jugé par les témoins de sa vie. English] Reference
In possession of one of them was found a guinea, which the captain had no hesitation in identifying as a peculiarly-marked coin which he had carried about with him for many years. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of the Border Marches] Reference
Ireland was, unfortunately, such as peculiarly unfitted them to afford the required medical aid, on the breaking out of the epidemic. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines] Reference
The circumstances of Mrs. Yaverland's life were such as peculiarly to strengthen the tie between her and Richard. From Wordnik.com. [When Winter Comes to Main Street] Reference
147: 2, "the outcasts of Israel"; the designation peculiarly given to the Jews in their dispersed state throughout the world ever since the. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
Blair's politics of outcomes is not peculiarly British. From Wordnik.com. [The Essence Of Blair's Revolution] Reference
The idea of a drug that cures a specific illness is a peculiarly modern one. From Wordnik.com. [Antibiotics] Reference
That principle, Benedict XVI may continue, is not some peculiarly Catholic notion. From Wordnik.com. [The President and the Pope] Reference
Redemption and renewal are peculiarly American graces, and in 1996 Bill Clinton embodied them. From Wordnik.com. [Bridge To 2000] Reference
The kamikaze units were composed of volunteers, but in a peculiarly Japanese sense of the word. From Wordnik.com. [A Clear and Moving 'Danger'] Reference
The only way to explain how peculiarly everyone is acting is that they've all read Junger's book. From Wordnik.com. [Much Storm, Little Drang] Reference
The notion that countries should apologize for their wartime behavior is a peculiarly modern one. From Wordnik.com. [No Apologies] Reference
Those changes partly reflect signals from the world outside, and seem to be a peculiarly human adaptation. From Wordnik.com. [Getting Inside A Teen Brain] Reference
"This peculiarly calm self-loathing," Delbanco writes, "... was the opening mood of American civilization.". From Wordnik.com. [Do We Need Satan?] Reference
Historically Swedish biotech also got a boost from two other quarters -- one serendipitous, the other peculiarly Swedish. From Wordnik.com. [SCIENCE AND SAVVY] Reference
"Expecting a novel to bear the weight of our whole disturbed society," he wrote, "seems to me a peculiarly American delusion.". From Wordnik.com. [Jonathan Franzen picks up the torch for US literary tradition] Reference
If Andy Murray really is favourite for the US Open – a peculiarly British perspective – he is keeping his buoyancy in check. From Wordnik.com. [Andy Murray believes Roger Federer has 'lost a little bit' of his aura] Reference
Indeed, the female roles in "Basic Instinct" are so peculiarly conceived, you'd swear the men who made this movie had never met a woman. From Wordnik.com. [Kiss Kiss Slash Slash] Reference
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