eccentrics
- plural of eccentric.
Example Sentences
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Eccentrics, New Agers, old radicals, they struggle to go beyond what the essayist Adam Phillips calls the “nostalgia” of “apocalyptic thinking.”
From New York Times • Jul. 27, 2021
Dr David Weeks, a neuropsychologist at the Royal Edinburgh hospital and the author of Eccentrics: A Study of Sanity and Strangeness, agrees.
From The Guardian • Nov. 20, 2018
Now and then, you read about people who have renounced modernity: Eccentrics who dress in Victorian clothes and live in houses where everything from the wallpaper to the lye soap dates from 1880.
From New York Times • Nov. 20, 2017
Diarmuid Gavin, who designed the Harrods British Eccentrics garden, says he mixed traditional themes with "a little bit of madness".
From BBC • May 23, 2016
There was nothing at least in this group I have loosely called the Eccentrics that disturbs the general sense that all their generation was part of the sunset of the great revolutionary poets.
From The Victorian Age in Literature by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
