Word: peculiare
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...surface, her gardener's journal is a casual, wandering set of two- or three-page mini-essays on mushrooms, ruby-throated hummingbirds and incense-sniffing ceremonies in Berkeley. Deep down, it is proof that attention and precision-savoring the small print of each moment-are no more peculiar to East than to West...
...think--it shouldn't be able to wake up, twist around, become aware of itself, and in doing so become an "I," but it does. Just like Gödel's mathematics, the mind is a strange, self-referential loop--it's a mirage, Hofstadter writes, but "a very peculiar kind of mirage ... a mirage that perceived itself, and of course it didn't believe that it was perceiving a mirage, but no matter--it still was a mirage...
...genitals with his hand,” Mailer said. Mailer also defended his accusation that Hitler was born of an incestuous relationship between his father and his father’s niece (who was also his father’s wife)—the source of this peculiar genital problem, according to Mailer. Never one to shy away from controversy, Mailer, who was famously arrested in 1967 for his role in demonstrations against the Vietnam War, answered many questions on the Iraq war. He had harsh words for members of the Bush administration such as Karl Rove...
...week since Drew Gilpin Faust’s appointment was first reported in the pages of The Crimson, conservatives inside and beyond Harvard’s gates have demonstrated a peculiar tendency to blurt out the F-word: feminist...
...their most eloquent interpreters to be the opposite of a good life. A careful reading of cases like these will show that, pace Tolstoy and the traditional model that he assumed, it is not only every bad life but every good life too that is remarkable in its own peculiar way. The student who learns to reflect thoughtfully on a wide range of such cases, and who learns to pursue his or her own life in the light of such reflection, will have begun to develop the tools necessary for aspiring to one of the good lives available...