Example sentences for: idiosyncrasies

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

  • According to a widespread belief, grade inflation took off during the Vietnam War era, in response to the idiosyncrasies of the Selective Service System.

  • Still, he's also supposed to have charisma and fascinating idiosyncrasies.

  • Visual creativity is driven by a variety of elements (social, political, cultural, intellectual, theoretical, aesthetic); an artist's physiology, by virtue of idiosyncrasies of the mechanics of vision, has more effect than the artist's psychology on his or her work.

  • Many of the recent life and work recaps emphasize Kubrick's famous idiosyncrasies: 1) his reclusiveness (though Time 's Richard Schickel was apparently an intimate); 2) his obsessiveness (he was known, wrote Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times , to call projectionists personally and complain about how his film was being shown in a particular theater); and 3) maniacal attention to detail (scores of takes were the norm).

  • Taking phylogeny and the idiosyncrasies of the Australian avifauna into account, southern species typically lay small clutches and have long fledging periods, and it is often difficult to predict their date of first laying or, indeed, whether they will lay in a particular year at all (Covas et al.


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