Word: peculiarities
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...states threatening to sanction Switzerland for refusing to share information about E.U. citizens' bank accounts "We worship at the feet of J.K. Rowling." Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com CEO, on how the Harry Potter books helped the company make its first profit in a year of dot.com disaster "I feel very peculiar asking customers to give me love." Takashi Uchida, shop owner in Yamato, Japan, on problems with his town's new local currency, the love
...multiple layers of shading. And yet, strikingly, she sometimes pays no attention to such traditional techniques as foreshortening or horizon lines. More strangely, rather than the usual black and white she has chosen a bizarre color scheme that evokes mint chocolate chip ice cream. Like suburbia itself, this peculiar mix of the natural with the oddly artificial takes some getting used...
...Professor of Psychology Ken Nakayama’s invitation “to the supporters of Sharon’s policies to join us in an open debate.” They argue as if one cannot oppose them and Sharon. Nevertheless, I have no reason to think such peculiar reasoning is shared by all signers. More importantly, I readily acknowledge that the signers known to me personally are not people to be suspected of conscious bigotry of any kind. Thus, I fully endorse Summers’ view that there is no intentional anti-Semitism in this campaign...
...game's comprehensive vocabulary, Nihal is a "cricket tragic"?a man irredeemably obsessed. In the past 15 years he has missed more wedding anniversaries than he has international cricket matches played in Colombo. His life revolves around the game and its peculiar colonial customs. He never attends a match without a packed lunch of egg sandwiches, the crusts neatly sliced off by his wife. He happily shares the sandwiches with bemused business associates. "I often do business at the cricket," he says. "The Americans like to do business on a golf course. I like to do business while watching Murali...
From where does the power spring? As C.S. Lewis, who was once smitten by it, asked, is it the Prince or the Poem? Is it the fierce deliberation of one man’s mind that gives it its peculiar flavor, its unmatched intensity, and its startling command of the intellect of the great intellects who devour it? Or is it the beauty of its poetry that seems to penetrate each neuron of the brain...