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  • We make facsimile versions of what we think are good shows. we try to make gritty and real shows that shun cheesy sentimentality and present cold hard fact. what we miss out on is honesty, and the kind of idosyncratic script writting that someone like Simon David, Aaron Sorkin and Joss Whedan can deliver.

    Is Sky Atlantic bad for British television? | Debate 2011

  • How about the George Foreman grill, or anyone of the wildly successful idosyncratic ideas that makes life interesting?

    Matthew Yglesias » Fun With Tax Deductions 2010

  • As Guardian columnist and idosyncratic tory Simon Jenkins noted, the architectural profession may realised that the modernist project was an ugly failure: "The best line on Tuesday was from the RIBA's president, Sunand Prasad, that his profession had put behind it the postwar obsession with ugliness, traffic and grandiose planning as so much 'car-bungle'".

    Archive 2009-05-01 Burke's Corner 2009

  • As Guardian columnist and idosyncratic tory Simon Jenkins noted, the architectural profession may realised that the modernist project was an ugly failure: "The best line on Tuesday was from the RIBA's president, Sunand Prasad, that his profession had put behind it the postwar obsession with ugliness, traffic and grandiose planning as so much 'car-bungle'".

    Charles and the soulless architecture of Modernism Burke's Corner 2009

  • As you'd expect the result is fabulously idosyncratic, what with Ken Branagh doing his usual not totally convincing American accent see also Celebrity and a music track which seems have wondered in from another film.

    Feeling Listless - "Taking the credit for your second symphony." 2004

  • Reply yeah, as you go up the corp. totem pole, it is harder and harder to be irreverent or idosyncratic.

    quick note on the googlebar - Anil Dash 2003

  • Rolling Thunder: an idosyncratic performance, featuring a drum intro, and then breaking into a full-blown arrangement, replete with horn section.

    The Annotated "Playing In The Band" Robert Hunter 1971

  • The greatest thinkers have been too intent on their subject to admit of interruption; they have been men of absent minds and idosyncratic habits, and have, more or less, shunned the lecture room and the public school.

    The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin John Henry Newman 1845

  • An anxiety-inspiring method of repeated violent action, employed by (semi -) clandestine individual, group, or state actors, for idosyncratic, criminal, or political reasons, whereby

    Army Rumour Service 2010

  • An anxiety-inspiring method of repeated violent action, employed by (semi -) clandestine individual, group, or state actors, for idosyncratic, criminal, or political reasons, whereby

    Army Rumour Service 2010

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