Example sentences for: eccentricity

How can you use “eccentricity” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The arrival of a pre-adolescent girl, inteligible to share a boy's room, threw a spanner into the works (and probably confirmed beliefs in English eccentricity).

  • Perhaps his most engaging eccentricity was the way he reared his dog: he apparently brought it up to think of itself as a cat, to the point where it even used its paws to wash its face.

  • The richness of language, image, and imagination all contrast with her austerities and stringencies: Nothing could be further from the beloved middlebrow notion of Dickinson as a charmingly dotty, fey spinster or wistful girl, all eccentricity and repression.

  • Both size and eccentricity acted as a differentiator, as well as encapsulation by or nearness to sinusoids (clear space).

  • Even critics who can't stand the film are impressed by Carrey: "His performance is a brilliant, almost terrifying impersonation" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). The critics' main bone of contention is that the film makes no attempt to explain the source of his eccentricity: "Mr.


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