Life is a series of seemingly throwaway moments strung together in a peculiar tapestry, and Linklater has captured it beautifully.
Because the shop was emblematic of that peculiar Italian institution known as La Faccia: i.e. presenting the best face possible.
In the semifinals, she was in a peculiar position for someone of Jeopardy!
The remainder is “peculiar” motion: movement of galaxies as dictated by the presence of matter nearby.
“When I first met Ed, I thought he was a peculiar guy, but when I got my hands on the book, it was masterful,” Osse said.
He dwelt on the childhood of Philothea with peculiar pleasure.
The physique of the true fashionable is peculiar and characteristic.
Of all the chickens on the place this was his peculiar property.
He thought, too, of the lean face and the peculiar, set eye of Dozier.
She was indeed a peculiar girl—the more the pity for the many that made her so!
mid-15c., "belonging exclusively to one person," from Latin peculiaris "of one's own (property)," from peculium "private property," literally "property in cattle" (in ancient times the most important form of property), from pecu "cattle, flock," related to pecus "cattle" (see pecuniary). Meaning "unusual" is first attested c.1600 (earlier "distinguished, special," 1580s; for sense development, cf. idiom). Related: Peculiarly.
