Example sentences for: idiosyncratic

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

  • Flirt (Gk. phlért ) is no longer a person who indulges in harmless dalliance but a lover, male or female or the love affair itself (more often than not, illicit); hula hoop means leotards; nylon is the transparent kind of plastic; shocking, used as a plural noun (Gk. sókin ), means off-color or risqué stories; and Texas , as in the sentence, It has become texas, means out of control, maniacally chaotic and violent (though this may be an idiosyncratic use by a small group of people).

  • The Second Coming of John McLaughlin John McLaughlin is both celebrated and notorious for ignoring the week's Top Washington Issues and instead discussing his own idiosyncratic topics.

  • It is not interesting to be engrossed with oneself and socially idiosyncratic.

  • Though less original and not as fully realized, these books reminded me of a pair of recent literary appreciations: Hermione Lee's mammoth biography of Virginia Woolf, and Alain de Botton's idiosyncratic, obsessive How Proust Can Change Your Life . All four books share a playful disregard for the rules that usually govern high-minded "intellectual" biographies.

  • Though the museum doesn’t possess any of the master’s finest works, it does have two good examples of his “Blue Period” (1903), as well as The Harlequin (1917), and the idiosyncratic Las Meninas series, which provides a fascinating view of Picasso’s innovative and deconstructivist approach to his subject.


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