Word: peculiare
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...Zedong puts it, China's history is largely a history of its peasants. In such a peculiar setting, freedom is doomed. Those who don't treat the interests of the peasants seriously would see themselves lose everything in the end. Poor and uneducated as the peasants are, when they unite to fight for their own rights--not the human rights in the Western sense, but the basic rights to live by--they form a formidable force that is capable of dethroning any government with a military force ten times stronger...
...object turned out to be peculiar. It's half as massive as Jupiter, but orbiting closer to 51 Pegasi than Mercury is to the sun. That means its surface temperature is 1300ūC, hotter than a blast furnace. Still, it is a planet. "I was a little schizophrenic about it," says Marcy. "On the one hand, we had been scooped. But I also felt euphoric that humanity had entered a new era in which new worlds were going to be subject to exploration...
Christianity faces a peculiar problem in relation to the Incarnation. Was this event unique in the universe, as official doctrine insists, or did God take on alien flesh too? Is Christ the Saviour of humans alone, or of all intelligent beings in our galaxy and beyond...
This injunction is peculiar and hard to disobey, given the gradual development in Western art of the maker overwhelming the made. Michelangelo became "Michelangelo" because his contemporaries, and then posterity, recognized the genius displayed across the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and in such of his statues as David and Pieta. A similar process transformed Shakespeare into "Shakespeare." In both cases, magnificent achievements led to posthumous idolatry...
...Juror, who also wrote The Silence of the Lambs), but you still have to play by thriller rules. When, for example, Annie boldly sashays up to the Mafia capo to have a little chat, we need to understand how she knew he would be in this particular and peculiar place--a cemetery, not some social club in Little Italy--at just this moment. Or when the Teacher needs to car bomb the mobster's limousine, we need to have some hint of how he gained access to it when the last we knew they were miles apart. For that matter...