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  • What is amusing about Alidoro is the quirkiness of the menu, forty sandwiches with names like the Pacino, the Fellini, the Vivaldi, the Galileo, as though the owners were graduates of the Shopsin School of Culinary Idiosyncrasy.

    Avery Corman: New York Hero Sandwiches: Not Always Heroic Avery Corman 2010

  • What is amusing about Alidoro is the quirkiness of the menu, forty sandwiches with names like the Pacino, the Fellini, the Vivaldi, the Galileo, as though the owners were graduates of the Shopsin School of Culinary Idiosyncrasy.

    Avery Corman: New York Hero Sandwiches: Not Always Heroic Avery Corman 2010

  • Idiosyncrasy: different children learning the same language are exposed to different samples of sentences.

    Innateness and Language Cowie, Fiona 2008

  • Idiosyncrasy without thought seems to be a bit of a fashion statement these days, and that makes a solid, intelligent performer a rare commodity.

    Archive 2008-12-01 Patrick J. Smith 2008

  • Idiosyncrasy emerges as soon as Socrates begins to ask Ion about his technê (530b).

    Plato's Aesthetics Pappas, Nickolas 2008

  • Idiosyncrasy without thought seems to be a bit of a fashion statement these days, and that makes a solid, intelligent performer a rare commodity.

    Alfred Brendel's last concert Patrick J. Smith 2008

  • Chris Dillow in Stumbling and mumbling: Idiosyncrasy in house prices

    Today's Web Grab 2008

  • Chris Dillow in Stumbling and mumbling: Idiosyncrasy in house prices

    Comment Central - Times Online - WBLG: 2008

  • Chris Dillow in Stumbling and mumbling: Idiosyncrasy in house prices

    Comment Central - Times Online - WBLG: 2008

  • Idiosyncrasy is an important factor in the causation of delirium tremens, as is also the use of alcoholic beverages rich in fusel oil -- like the cheaper whiskeys.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

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