idiosyncracy

• “Yes, 'observed Charley;' but have you forgotten what we were pleased to term the idiosyncracy of Mr. Reed's French friend, Monsieur Bossieux who visited him last year?”

  The Rivals: A Chickahominy Story

• “Of course, this "idiosyncracy" of Obama and these others has a down side.”

  Hullabaloo

• “If his biggest "idiosyncracy" is feeling most comfortable batting first, his teammates haven't said much about it, largely because they have quirks and preferences of their own.”

  DailyHerald.com > News

• “But others justify their existence through sheer, giddy idiosyncracy and mindless excess.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Mixing and Maximizing

• “If real life involves some mess, idiosyncracy, memory and experience, then so too should decorating.”

  The Wall Street Journal: 10 Odd, Yet Essential, Elements of Style

• “Jane's most prominent quirk is sartorial: a fedora that executive producer Alexandra Cunningham is calling an "iconic idiosyncracy.”

  Critic's Notebook: NBC at TCA

• “The blog Un Boliviano en Argentina [es], written by Juan Vasquez, a Bolivian immigrant living in Argentina posts a cultural question that discusses the problem inherent to culture and idiosyncracy: un tiempo atras en una conversacion con unos compañeros, discutimos por un tema puntual dentro de la colectividad, q es la del trabajo infantil.”

  Global Voices in English » Latin America: The Problem of Child Labor – Part II

• “Regardless, I have nothing but fondness for everything I read prior to being made aware of that idiosyncracy, and I still remember finally cluing in (possibly via reading it somewhere else) that the Woof Writers were Wendy and Richard Pini.”

  We’ll myth you, Robert.

• “Choices dictate conversation, conversations dictate idiosyncracy and depth.”

  Too Much Fly Media?

• “Don't love the way history is taught: so that it leaches all the human idiosyncracy out of the stories and makes them a catalogue of dead numbers and dry anecdotes.”

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