As regards eccentricity: funny how certain artists are that way.
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This isn't folksy eccentricity; it is white supremacy and misogyny.
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Black and sexy has blossomed into a celebration of eccentricity.
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Here, Ryder's original eccentricity feels fully revived in adult form.
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Jeannette is a gloriously shameless instance of art house eccentricity.
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What would London Fashion Week be without a bit of eccentricity?
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Then there is the eccentricity of so many of the players.
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I experiment judiciously, and Cunningham, who favored bold eccentricity, got it.
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The eccentricity of Ukrainian politics should not obscure some important achievements.
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I like his eccentricity — he doesn't look like someone who conformed.
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He inspired with his persona and celebration of eccentricity and originality.
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That's almost an eccentricity in today's politics, like wearing a monocle.
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When collecting strives to become objective, the eccentricity veers into obsession.
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American culture, and the version portrayed by DiCaprio, is of "eccentricity"
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Depending on the bearer, it can denote creativity, maturity or eccentricity.
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An eccentricity close to 1 means the ellipse is similar to a line (high width and low height), while an eccentricity close to 0 means it is similar to a circle (width and height roughly similar).
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Outside the United States, he and Ms. Scott Brown were known for their addition to the National Gallery in London, which opened in 1991 and was acclaimed for eccentricity in a country where eccentricity is prized.
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He's outwardly prickly but secretly empathetic, grounding Kit's willful eccentricity and optimism.
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This six-song EP overflows with hooks, noise, eccentricity, and juvenile defiance.
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However, as Scorpios get older they come to appreciate their father's eccentricity.
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Eccentricity and charm abound in this documentary about the rare book world.
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These days, parades around the world inspire exuberance, pride — and often eccentricity.
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Much of Mr. Jasperse's "Hinterland" is a study in eccentricity and peculiarity.
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The show is part ivory-tickling, part audience-flirting, and all Goldblum eccentricity.
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The month closes with Mercury meeting Uranus, the planet of electricity and eccentricity.
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On some level I admire "Better Call Saul" for its eccentricity and patience.
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With the ballast of his marriage removed, Macon immediately tips into serious eccentricity.
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LONDON — Jack Thorne has no shortage of ways to characterize his own eccentricity.
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Symbolized by the Water Bearer, Aquarius is known for eccentricity, intellectualism, and humanitarianism.
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He is a business tycoon prone to obscene conduct, malicious speech and eccentricity.
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The finished product, in all its glorious eccentricity, is out of this world.
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Nor are the designs one-of-a-kind projects that veer toward eccentricity.
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It's the perfect Eurovision marriage of eccentricity, sugar-rush jitters, and pop songcraft.
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But that eccentricity, the gameplay transitions that happen across any given stage, isn't unprecedented.
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Maybe not, but it does emphasizes his work as more than just an eccentricity.
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Their sensibility—blending fine art, glamour, sensationalism, eccentricity and sex—runs parallel to his.
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"There is something exquisite in the mix of eccentricity and beauty," Ms. McGrath said.
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Amidst all the eccentricity, the minimalism of a suit felt like a welcome statement.
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When you head to a flat Earth conference you expect… shall we say, eccentricity.
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Goldstein has been accused of eccentricity, and he is happy to dress the part.
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"Cinema Play House" chronicles a slowly-dying culture known for its eccentricity and originality.
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The cast members refrain from over-signaling their characters' eccentricity, which is a blessing.
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D.I.Y. broadcast mediums like Instagram have ushered in a golden age of personal eccentricity.
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Eccentricity is a quality that can take on wildly different connotations based on its context.
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The ragged eccentricity of the film itself suggests a different explanation of its ignominious fate.
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She has bags of charisma, and shows all the humour, bravery, intelligence and eccentricity required.
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As long as the statue is perfectly upright, the eccentricity of the loads is tolerable.
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Still, the dynamism of their play, and the depth and eccentricity of their resources, impressed.
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Kimberly said she was struck by the texture, rawness and pleasing eccentricity of the wines.
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Each reflects a movement toward pocket-size eccentricity and charm masking high-test pop perfectionism.
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Here, she looks at their relationship to people, with a fond eye for human eccentricity.
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I was at first baffled and then intrigued by the eccentricity and audacity of Evans.
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While Dr. Kane says that an eccentricity of 30 to 40 percent is the upper limit, Sean Raymond, an astronomer at the University of Bordeaux in France, has argued that even a planet with near 60 percent eccentricity might be able to support life.
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Today, as in the past, writers are drawn to the freedom, exuberance and tolerance of eccentricity.
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On the one hand, it's a document that's been grown in the shubbery of pop eccentricity.
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Cavell once defended Ludwig Wittgenstein's stylistic eccentricity in terms that easily be used for Cavell himself.
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The researchers behind the Gemini observations said their data showed an eccentricity of at least 3.
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It's a moment of cultivated eccentricity, to be sure, but also something of an artist statement.
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There have always been artists isolated by poverty, mental illness, racial discrimination, physical disability, or eccentricity.
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English eccentricity is a cliché, and I say what follows aware of the perils of stereotypes.
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Such single-mindedness, which is hoarded eccentricity, is easy to dislike—it so isn't like us .
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It's a sign these products, far from being a just-for-vegans eccentricity, are going mainstream.
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But it's the others swirling around him that give this ballet its air of mystery and eccentricity.
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The second half of "the story progresses" also features another Tanowitz eccentricity: four guest artists, all male.
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This time, though, designer Alessandro Michele's eccentricity came back fighting, and the Italian designer nabbed the lead.
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Still, the humour and eccentricity of Mr Lynch's own reminiscences and observations are the book's main pleasure.
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" He maintained, however, that he wasn't taking on these different roles "for an eccentricity or an aberration.
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Marshall wanted this new Mary to have a signature eccentricity, like the flowers the original Mary wears.
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Image: Southwest Research InstituteWhen changes in axial tilt and eccentricity combine properly, Mars has an ice age.
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Mac Dre unapologetically celebrated his eccentricity, and that attitude extends to the Bay Area's rap scene today.
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When Mark Zuckerberg builds a six-foot fence around his Hawaii property it isn't an endearing eccentricity.
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To that end, Lagerfeld constantly pointed at the many ways to get power: money, connections, eccentricity, appearance.
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Coaches came and went in those early years, while McLaughlin cultivated a reputation for ire and eccentricity.
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The musical returns to the eccentricity and silliness that got readers on board in the first place.
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Every eccentricity, every mechanical oddity, every inconvenience of the Dreamcast generation of videogames is here, fully intact.
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"The eccentricity of language was something that my ear really took to," she said of Stein's writing.
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Furthermore, if the eccentricity of the original machine was valuable, isn't something lost when it actually works?
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The only problem with a field this crowded, however, is that eccentricity becomes commonplace and idiosyncrasy mainstream.
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How could all of that energy and brilliance and eccentricity exist one moment and not the next?
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More myth than man, Karl Lagerfeld had willed his fantasy of Parisian-flavored decadence and eccentricity into existence.
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These stories tend to dramatize his eccentricity, his torment, and his obsessive devotion to the act of painting.
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But on this front, though the venue strives for eccentricity, it is part of a much larger trend.
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After that, there were four more solo Atlantic crossings, in crafts of various sizes and degrees of eccentricity.
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Something about Zamalek's geography, and its old-money residents, seemed to draw out an Egyptian flair for eccentricity.
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In particular, astronomers are trying to ascertain C/2019 Q4's eccentricity, or how extreme its orbit is.
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As the Willkie (originally Willcke) family took root in Indiana, they earned a reputation for eccentricity and vanguardism.
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"The Club" accurately recreates a milieu keen on character, egged on by the English taste for unashamed eccentricity.
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I used to find him sly, but what is far more striking now is his impulsive, elusive eccentricity.
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For all of President Trump's political eccentricity, the man delivers a fairly conventional State of the Union address.
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Both vision and eccentricity abound in Katchadourian's wonderful exhibition Ification, her first with the increasingly noteworthy Fridman Gallery.
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The panels are so bright that they're almost lurid, but they capture the vivid eccentricity of Gaudí's creations.
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Depp is convincingly vulnerable and forlorn, all while maintaining the Hatter's otherworldly eccentricity, and Wasikowska has the requisite grit.
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Like everything else about Surfer, I'm not entirely sure it added up to anything more than well-intentioned eccentricity.
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Its dour eccentricity gives "Hardcore Henry" a potency above and beyond that of standard-issue show-off action fare.
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De Middel approached this story of eccentricity and obstinacy by showing people in spacesuits made of colorful "African" fabrics.
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Bill Lambrecht, 81, a neighbor and friend for more than 30 years, dismissed her clutter as a harmless eccentricity.
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The easiest way to play into the trend is to carry a handbag with an air of luxe eccentricity.
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Stars Hollow's small-town eccentricity and over-the-top charm feel deliberately removed from the rest of New England.
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And "The Man Who Killed Don Quixote" does have pleasing traces of his patented eccentricity and cheek, if nothing else.
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Each day highlights a different place, marvel, eccentricity or other oddity drawn from the popular book of the same name.
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For all the eccentricity of their beliefs, nobody has ever seriously accused the Jehovah's Witnesses of preparing to use force.
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During the 2016 campaign, aides would go to Schiller to understand a quirk or eccentricity about the billionaire-turned-politician.
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I would have been fine in a more 'conventional' gown, but our producers really wanted Amy's eccentricity to shine through.
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It was an entirely practical approach, but, like most adaptations to the work of intense thinking, it read as eccentricity.
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His book has none of the energy or eccentricity of previous literary sports obsessionists, like Frederick Exley ("A Fan's Notes").
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This year's slate of 52 exhibitors, most hailing from New York, promises to maintain the fair's aura of classy eccentricity.
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These moves, and "Joanne," too, serve as an overcorrection to the garish eccentricity of "Artpop," her last album, which flopped.
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Cornell worked mostly in series, spinning obsessions with Renaissance portraitists and film stars into microcosms of Victorian anachronism and eccentricity.
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Rediscovery Bruce Goff's midcentury houses across the Midwest are symbols of both a heartland-born eccentricity and a distinct Modernism.
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The clothes kept pace with that eccentricity: royal blue turbans, a multitiered black pagoda hat and colorful patterned head scarves.
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Critic's Notebook Ilya Khrzhanovsky's films "Degeneratsia" and "Natasha" are part of an undertaking whose eccentricity and grandeur border on folly.
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I'm not gonna pretend I get the weird fascination with Elon Musk's eccentricity, but you know what, this made me smile.
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Eccentricity was the norm: He recalls hearing explosions boom from one property, where, it emerged, a family of human cannonballs lived.
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It would be some time before he would again link his eccentricity and cinephilia so neatly to a popular American myth.
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Branson is well-known for his jet-setting adventures and eccentricity, such as dressing as a butterfly to run a marathon.
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Its writers have always been allowed to pursue rabbits down rabbitholes, with newsiness sidelined in favor of passion, eccentricity, and humor.
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Sellers never strikes a false note, as he exhibits the kind of naïveté that the film's other characters mistake for eccentricity.
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"But if you think of traditions that don't change rapidly," she added, her hometown is a wonderland of anachronism and eccentricity.
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We were remembering our own childhoods and the specialness of birthdays, and celebrating the eccentricity of family life and its rituals.
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These designers, who are Bulgarian and Portuguese, "combine a whimsical eccentricity with a real couture finish and detailing," Mr. Noisette said.
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In fact, several recent studies have shown that a planet's eccentricity can be nudged fairly high before that world becomes toxic.
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Related: Group Show PHREEEK MAGNET Celebrates Eccentricity in the Extreme Trip On Church with Photo Series 'Acid Mass' The Trump Art Dump
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Nope, that's just Aquarius season, stargazers, imbuing us all with a little extra quirk and eccentricity from January 20 to February 18.
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Fifty years of paint on canvas, and if there was anything you came to expect, it was the eccentricity of his vision.
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How heartening to renew acquaintance with the uninhibited and adult eccentricity that BalletX, a company devoted to new choreography, seems to encourage.
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SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son once stoked Adam Neumann's eccentricity as a CEO; now, Son believes Neumann has gone too far, CNBC reports.
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Despite the eccentricity of the works on display, the juried nature of the exhibition is perhaps more unconventional than the art itself.
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And it's not only about eccentricity, though "Untitled" has many wonderful baubles that come out of nowhere and yet fit just fine.
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For many, summertime in New York City means a trip to Coney Island, that noisy, playful, idiosyncratic waterfront slice of Brooklyn eccentricity.
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It helps to enjoy the eccentricity and precocity of Ms. Sherman-Palladino's dialogue (everyone is precocious in her shows, even the elderly).
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He entered the House of Commons in 2010, where his eccentricity and his penchant for obscure oratorical references were often on display.
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Mr. Johnson has previously weathered one scandal after another, building a buffer from his aura of chronic absent-mindedness and posh eccentricity.
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Mr. Johnson has previously weathered one scandal after another, building a buffer from his aura of chronic absent-mindedness and posh eccentricity.
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The most encouraging sign is that, for all of Kim Jong-un's brutal eccentricity, he generally acts in his own self-interest.
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RELATED: Meryl Streep attacks Trump in Golden Globes acceptance speech The Globes appreciates eccentricity, while the Academy Awards skews toward higher brow fare.
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Its actual shape is an ellipse, and the elongation of this ellipse, a property called its eccentricity, oscillates over the course of time.
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Instead it explores how his mix of precocious talent and eccentricity proved captivating, particularly for the artists who were among his biggest fans.
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The line, with Kanye, between eccentricity, performance art, and any actual underlying insecurities is never clear — which is exactly how he likes it.
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My support for a one-state solution went from being a harmless eccentricity to a view utterly at odds with most Jewish opinion.
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He remains an extreme case, so inward as to be a bit alien, ensconced in his eccentricity like Don Quixote in his armor.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists have unlocked some of the genetic secrets of the weird and wondrous seahorse including its exotic eccentricity of male pregnancy.
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Lit from above, each still life gains a dramatic, painterly feel, further transforming the banality of the food items into relics of eccentricity.
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Prior versions of many songs have more bite and eccentricity; for Los Lobos, these are hospitable singalongs in an extended Pan-American family.
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People engage a deeper level of interest in us not through their eccentricity or flamboyance, but because of the quality of their humanity.
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Her contrary motions and eccentricity generally keep things intriguing, though at the cost of intermittently making you worry if she's lost her way.
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In 5003, the world of cinema finally seemed to embrace the director's eccentricity as part of her genius and activism, not at their expense.
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The eccentricity of the creative process knows no bounds, and the most random of inspirations can lead to some of our most treasured works.
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Price: $20 Whether or not you know their music, you might as well familiarize yourself with the endearing eccentricity of Harry and the Potters.
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To win Eurovision is to find the sweet spot between camp and sincerity: just enough politics, just enough eccentricity, just enough pan-European appeal.
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One panel is a comical lineup of the odd characters who once peopled the streets of Cork; witty paragraphs convey each person's defining eccentricity.
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I would travel with him through many poor acting decisions, abandoning him only when his eccentricity became a flimsy cover-up for alleged abuse.
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He hasn't been around long enough to be told how to behave, or to learn best practices from his peers, so eccentricity it is.
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In contrast to his suburban surroundings, his studio is a candy-colored, joyful ode to eccentricity — and an accurate representation of his own aesthetic.
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I am a native New Yorker, in a family of waning Italian heritage, so my opinions on barbecue have been treated as an eccentricity.
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Distinguishing between those situations isn't an eccentricity exclusive to a mythical self-serving left: It's the moral distinction behind an entire genre of literature.
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In Hong Kong, Alvin Leung is known as much for his eccentricity as he is for being the man who's constantly pushing culinary boundaries.
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Peter Sallis, a British actor, brought genial eccentricity to the voice of the cheese-loving Wallace in the "Wallace & Gromit" stop-motion animated films.
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It's the signal that Perfume Genius's ambition and eccentricity are broader than ever, and a demonstration that the music will live up to both.
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But what followed, in the beginning of the 20th century, was a blossoming of the worldly eccentricity we now associate with magpie English design.
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At Milan Fashion Week that February, the Italian brand introduced a new creative director, Alessandro Michele, whose style was all about eccentricity, romanticism, and ruffles.
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He and other writers, editors, and chefs made Southern food into more than an eccentricity—it was suddenly something worth talking about and paying for.
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His remark underscored an eccentricity of America's $3.7 trillion municipal bond market, which state and local governments routinely tap to raise money for public works.
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The living embodiment of Florida camp and eccentricity, and, ultimately, the only thing that, post–Dream House, would keep the state in my good graces.
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This lack of any bright line between pathology and eccentricity, Schwarz argues, has allowed Big Pharma to get away with relentless expansion of the franchise.
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Though the choreography seems at first to be another example of BalletX eccentricity, it abounds in clichés and draws attention to its own deliberate unmusicality.
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Even the album's cover art explicitly channels the mind-set of teen-agers and twentysomethings who, liberated by the Internet, spurn labels and celebrate eccentricity.
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Mayor Adam West is notable for his eccentricity, but also for the fact that he never mentions Batman — a kind of recurring joke by omission.
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It was directed by master of eccentricity Tim Burton, which should probably be the first big, flashing sign that it's really not meant for children.
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With the reality-based wing of his party decimated, Mr Johnson is a prisoner of a narrow clique that combines ideological fervour with personal eccentricity.
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Fini first became know (and photographed) due to her erotic and somewhat frightening eccentricity, which she exhibited with her costume-like clothing and theatrical behavior.
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As he sees it, it's a combination of eccentricity, genteel sportsmanship and competitiveness — but not at all costs — with a dash of humor and wit.
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Rather than turn out cardboard heroes and villains, he savors the eccentricity of his characters, in the sheer weirdness of our ingenious and idiotic species.
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It was an undertaking whose eccentricity and grandeur bordered on folly: a social experiment disguised as an art project, or perhaps the other way around.
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But while accuracy binds the trust between reader and contributor, eccentricity and elegance and surprise are the singular qualities that make learning an inviting transaction.
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An American astronaut, a Cameroonian girls' soccer team and an Afghan family crowd the New Ohio at this annual celebration of downtown experimentation and eccentricity.
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Here was the jolt of architectural eccentricity we craved, an improvised structure that looks like a few shipping containers crash-landed on top of a warehouse.
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I would use eccentricity as a weapon, wearing red lipstick, heels, hats, leather gloves, and extreme clothes—kind of like a femme fatale or a villain.
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But every once in a while, he'd let slip some of the eccentricity that's made him such a fascinating, humble hero to listeners around the world.
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Yet I am still plagued by this eccentricity of the loads: an impossible tension between the fantasies in my head and the realities on the ground.
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Its all-inclusive eccentricity symbolises the effect of the computer upon British music, in an intro which sees Victorians dig up a time-warped supersized dinosaur.
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Mr. Kantarovsky paints disconcerting, darkly funny scenes of lovers, mourners, children and freaks, and intensifies their eccentricity through unexpected contrasts of oil paint with drippy watercolor.
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"The Fog" is a fairly straightforward supernatural action film, predicated on a 19th-century shipwreck and the town that benefited from it, but not without eccentricity.
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Giant Art "Space Cadet" by Hidden Moves From the same series, this large-scale print from Welsh artist Rhys Owens captures gentle eccentricity that oozes cool.
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While pursuing his PhD at Stanford University, Gomez realized Pokémon might offer a unique way to probe this process, especially a visual theory called eccentricity bias.
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Mick does it again to a woman at an art gallery because she has slightly masculine features, and everyone laughs off his assault as an Australian eccentricity.
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It's too wordy for kids, not analytical enough for experts, too scholarly for casual readers, and too tepid for those who come to manga for its eccentricity.
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GEORGIA has been known for excess and eccentricity since ancient times, when it was called Colchis, the home of Medea and the Golden Fleece in Greek mythology.
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MANY WESTERNERS regard the Jehovah's Witnesses, handing out tracts on street corners or knocking on strangers' doors, as somewhere between a colourful eccentricity and a mild irritation.
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Related: Art Trends: Collages of Constellations Group Show PHREEEK MAGNET Celebrates Eccentricity in the Extreme We're Having a Very NSFW Art Show at the Museum of Sex
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Rather than just linger on as an eccentricity from a bygone age, though, the surviving Czech libraries are doing what they can to stay vibrant and relevant.
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Here was an excitingly original, strikingly ambitious novel about, among other things, genius, the costs of eccentricity, and the loneliness lurking in the possession of immense intelligence.
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To realize the eccentricity of 20jazz, the aesthetic of GvB, how deeply they were digging, that opened up a new universe, rabbit holes of blogrolls and forums.
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Nobody made boots like Mr. Carroll — he handcrafted them for seven presidents and Pope John Paul II — and nobody embodied Texas eccentricity and individualism like Mr. Carroll.
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This applies not only to the emblem itself, but to the next phase of design for the fashion house led by Michele and his fiercely charming eccentricity.
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Popcast One of the unexpected byproducts of the streaming era is how a certain tier of artists — already famous, prone to eccentricity — have doubled down on albums.
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Everything he does, it fits his brand because he's built for himself such a profound and valuable eccentricity that, y'know, whatever, sure, that sounds like Snoop Dogg.
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While these two phenomena are hard to model, we found that they are bounded by a ellipse of a particular shape, having a high eccentricity equal to 0.8.
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It was a meaningless eccentricity from a showbiz candidate going nowhere, a sign of the unreality of his campaign and of his own strange place in American culture.
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Camp Century was a perfect example of Cold War paranoia and eccentricity: an improbable outpost that was expensive to build, difficult to maintain, and unpleasant to live within.
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There are usually fewer than four colors in each drawing, but each one is representative of the joie de vivre and eccentricity that permeates de Castelbajac's fashion career.
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"My childhood was very Glass family," Grahm says, using the term, correctly, to mean not a coven of intellectuals but a show-biz family that encouraged spiritual eccentricity.
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An example of British eccentricity you might say, but Sarah Dunning, Chief Executive of Westmorland—the family business who own and run the services at Gloucester—believes otherwise.
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In an enterprising and marketable twist, this European production tapped Shia LaBeouf -- an actor with a reputation for eccentricity -- to play John McEnroe, the tantrum-throwing tennis great.
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The fact that this planet has such a high eccentricity speaks to some difference in the way that it either formed or evolved relative to the other planets.
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Tell someone that you cannot drive, and they respond as if you had confessed an intimate eccentricity, like needing to be walked on with high heels before bed.
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Happy is the moment when I pour dozens, hundreds, of bright little tubes, cylinders of cozy British eccentricity, into the bottom drawer on the right of the sink.
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Instead, it is a license for eccentricity, building a new generation raised almost exclusively on misfit elders, rappers who were (and sometimes still are) maligned for their unconventional approaches.
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It speaks of collecting fragmentation against scattering and loss, but also of futility, eccentricity, astonishment, admiration, awe, and a kind of dazed submission to the abundance of the world.
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Alt-J: Relaxer (Infectious/Atlantic) Caring about indie consensus in 2017 means pondering bands who mistake eccentricity for notability and consider divergence from received form reasonable evidence for talent.
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Sibylla, the book's narrator, is an American single mother living in London, a woman of undoubted brilliance and eccentricity who is trying to raise her prodigiously clever son, Ludo.
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The 40-year-old Israeli-born entrepreneur was also known for his eccentricity and for embracing a New Age philosophy, heavy on self-healing and showy concern for sustainability.
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It's also much more difficult to achieve, for creating a compelling space demands a real sense of eccentricity, as well as a genuine lack of desire to be liked.
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London Fashion Week's most talked moments This year London's fashion week delivered impressive collections that blended eccentricity, intelligence and politics, with notable nods to women who embody feminist views.
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With a quirky résumé that includes two documentaries about the Westboro Baptist Church, the British journalist and filmmaker Louis Theroux has proved himself a seasoned chronicler of human eccentricity.
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I would like to convey the drama and power of this legend — its eccentricity, even the implicit humor — and, not least, how it has evolved and been reinterpreted over time.
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And while proudly uncommercial eccentricity might be an ironic fit for pop music, once named for its inherent popularity, it seems to be doing just fine for Carly Rae Jepsen.
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It's possible you have already heard of Vormann and his incredibly joyful eccentricity, but I stumbled upon him merely this afternoon, and he has already made my life measurably better.
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Popular thanks to his charm and eccentricity, Johnson had been expected to put himself forward to succeed David Cameron as prime minister in the event of a vote for Brexit.
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The David's superfame struck me as another eccentricity of the loads: the tension between the actual statue — the original physical thing, unique in the world — and the statue's ubiquitous image.
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Nevertheless, it's the music that allowed him to assert his eccentricity in a safe space, reclaiming his weird and simultaneously mocking those who saw that as his only defining feature.
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To resist convenience — not to own a cellphone, not to use Google — has come to require a special kind of dedication that is often taken for eccentricity, if not fanaticism.
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What the ordinary person might interpret as a con game or sheer lunacy, the heavily credentialed investor, with his TED Talk understanding of things, will reliably regard as brilliant eccentricity.
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Even so, we both knew this guy was running headlong into a swarm of unbearable eccentricity back in 2016, and clearly nothing I say now will fundamentally change that course.
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The leading players here — notably Stark Sands, Billy Porter and Annaleigh Ashford — pick up on the trademark Lauper mix of sentimentality and eccentricity, but each makes it his or her own.
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The eccentricity of style on the internet allows me to be as bold as I please without worrying about it being too much or if it's going to be viewed favorably.
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Sure, they're the sign of innovation, the future, and eccentricity, but the fact is they are Fixed signs (like you!), which tells us that they are all about steadfastness and solidity.
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A catchall term for the work of self-taught artists isolated from the mainstream by poverty, mental disability or eccentricity, "outsider art" is more of a sociological phenomenon than a genre.
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Eccentricity and consistency don't always get along, and Bouley is a slightly eccentric restaurant, as Frank Bruni noted the last time it was reviewed in The New York Times, in 2009.
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This band enjoys an extraordinary rapport with its audience and concerts are communal celebrations of a very particular kind of music, but also of eccentricity, idiosyncrasy, joy, pleasure and, essentially, freedom.
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She became known for this eccentricity, for sweeping onstage in an elegant low-necked black velvet gown with a black leather bag, which she deposited beside the piano before she played.
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She portrays present-day Havana as a collision of past and present, of cultural influence and personal eccentricity, and the act of travel as a radical form of recontextualization and displacement.
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Peter Sallis, a British actor who brought genial eccentricity to the voice of the cheese-loving Wallace in the "Wallace & Gromit" Claymation stop-motion animated films, died on Friday in London.
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At a later moment, the book seemed to me to be about what a power move it is to be "eccentric" and how that eccentricity coerces others into serving your fantasy.
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I seek escapism and refreshment in wild travel or vivid autobiography, expressing the strongest sense of individuality (not mine) both in style and content, even to the point of extreme eccentricity.
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This was not only relevant as an eccentricity of prehistoric demography, but broadly consequential for the ongoing study of culture itself — of where new ideas come from and how they proliferate.
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That's been the B&O way since the middle of the 20th century, and the company's long string of successful and influential products would appear to confirm there's wisdom in its eccentricity.
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Britain's unwritten political order, as the writer George Orwell noted, has always cherished eccentricity; in many other democracies, a formal, constitutional right to free speech reflects long struggles against authoritarianism and theocracy.
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But others view the rise of the human remains trade on Instagram as more than a sign of eccentricity, particularly when Instagrammers take real human skulls and give them faux tribal makeovers.
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He brought a beautiful eccentricity to everything he touched, and his work inspired many of us to let our freak flags fly and not give a damn what anyone said about it.
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Maison Bertaux is British eccentricity in shop form, and at the heart of it is Michelle Wade, a former Saturday girl at the shop and owner of the business since the 1980s.
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Eccentricity is part of the DNA of the 2500 souls who choose — or get the chance — to live in a rural community smack in the middle of North America's fourth-largest city.
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The film shows Hughes in late middle age, ruling over the palm-trees-and-convertibles world of midcentury Hollywood, lurking in the shadows a lot and eventually devolving from eccentricity to lunacy.
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The difference is that Mr. Pritchett's world is enlivened by his cheerful embrace of eccentricity, while Mr. Trevor's London is drabber, sadder, a place of widows and widowers, blighted romances, unraveling relationships.
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JOHN B. MCLEMORE, "S-TOWN" The same charisma, melodrama, eccentricity and melodious runaway-train accent that drew the radio producer Brian Reed to McLemore's rural Alabama town hooked me on this podcast.
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"This collection finds the humor, and the beauty, and the pathos, and the sheer glorious eccentricity of the British way of dressing," Christopher Bailey, Burberry's chief creative officer said in a press release.
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So much so that all of the eccentricity of a Philip Plein show extravaganza, the line-up of a designer's celebrity cheerleaders, and even the street style peacocks are pretty much the norm.
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As such, it's easy for what they do to be misconstrued, and for their credibility to be overshadowed by eccentricity, humour, the fact that they are full-blooded, whole hearted, sweat-pouring entertainers.
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Mr. Yelland and Ms. Steadman are far less flashy and charismatic than Charles Laughton and Marlene Dietrich, who brought their personal magnetism and eccentricity to the same roles in the Billy Wilder film.
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A highlight of the new collection of loungewear from & Other Stories is this velvet chapeau, which, whether you're at rest or bustling about, will add a dash of Gucci eccentricity to your ensemble.
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As Vulture pointed out, the episode aired in 1991 before Jackson was facing allegations of child molestation, but he was certainly fighting off the idea that his eccentricity meant he was mentally unstable.
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In his first years on TBS, Mr. O'Brien still seemed haunted by losing "The Tonight Show," but his series now has the pleasing eccentricity of someone who doesn't care about ratings or expectations.
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And while the Klontzes (literally) wear their...eccentricity out there for everyone to see, most happy couples have funny foibles that they share every day to remind them that they're in it together.
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Mixing 1950s Disney and "The Triplets of Belleville," the stylized design and moody color palette are a welcome departure from current animation trends, and they add to the general ambience of surreal eccentricity.
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From the back benches, his eccentricity may have charmed, analysts said, but on the front benches of government it accentuated a sense that Mr. Johnson's government was reckless, arrogant and out of touch.
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A thin, bespectacled man of 53, Mr. Thomas had on wool trousers paired with a green corduroy blazer and blue cloth tie, and exuded an air of bookish intelligence and modest British eccentricity.
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The scene on a warm day—Frisbees floating, sunbathers dozing, those endless busloads of schoolkids—is a vindication of L'Enfant's original, bustling idea, a happy echo of America's largeness and its stubborn eccentricity.
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"Superstore," which is up first, stars America Ferrera of the much-admired "Ugly Betty," who plays the most competent employee at a megastore in St. Louis where ineptitude and eccentricity are the staff norms.
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But when the film shifts gears into traditional Marvel mode, it prompts a twinge of regret, because no fight sequence can live up to the eccentricity that runs through the rest of the film.
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A more original politician than he appeared to be in 2016, when his upbeat Reaganite message found few takers, Mr Kasich's governing record reveals the same mix of intensity, single-mindedness and sporadic eccentricity.
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It's easier to be lenient of everything from mediocrity to intense eccentricity in a city where you and all your neighbors are held captive by a cruel deep freeze for half of each year.
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Again, the literary dangers are obvious enough—whimsy, sentimentality, grating eccentricity—and again they are short-circuited by Øyehaug's appealing, vigorous simplicity: The deer stood at the edge of the forest and was miserable.
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Their three-way culture clash is matched by the eccentricity of the fiendishly complex plot, which traces the families from the second world war to the present day via 1970s squat parties and 1980s protests.
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As a group of people obsessed with power and immortality, who view the working class as literal blood bags who have nothing else to offer society, their wealthy eccentricity puts even Peter Thiel to shame.
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Trump has placed himself in a vulnerable position with a vivid display of his eccentricity, his excesses and his uncertain financial resources, all of which add up to a diminishing opportunity to turn things around.
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Yaeger accurately captures what so many admired about Cunningham and his eye: He wasn't part of some exclusive, elusive group — nor did he want to be; he relished New York in all of its eccentricity.
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Except garish eccentricity is one of Lady Gaga's comfort zones, and that album's lack of success had more to do with overemphasizing the nonmusical aspects of Gaga's character than her lack of fluency with music.
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"And while the Klontzes (literally) wear their ... eccentricity out there for everyone to see, most happy couples have funny foibles that they share every day to remind them that they're in it together," Drexler observed.
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The spectrum has been stretched to the breaking point, and autism now sits astride a social fault line between what's considered normal and what's pathological, what's an eccentricity and what's in need of expert therapy.
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I didn't take him very seriously as a writer; as I saw it, Buchan's worldly success richly compensated for—and effectively obliterated—the eccentricity of his wanting to be a writer in the first place.
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A lifetime of extremely stiff defense and Grade A on- and off-court eccentricity has been abandoned to the wastes of basketball history, left to decompose with the rest of the marginal and the forgotten.
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In an industry that celebrates eccentricity, Ms. Wojcicki presents as exceedingly normal, bordering on boring, even as elements of her digital realm burst into the real world in forms that are increasingly grotesque and sometimes dangerous.
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The deal gives the company uncommon power over the marketing of the Games in the U.S. [The New York Times] In big tech news: • In an industry that celebrates eccentricity, Susan Wojcicki presents as exceedingly normal.
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He didn't just mock the obsession with celebrities; he teased them to their face, displaying studious indifference to the projects they were promoting and a smirking skepticism to their hints of pretentiousness, self-importance or eccentricity.
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But, until he became reclusive in recent years, he was known for spending hours teaching others to fish and telling fish tales — many of which, in further evidence of his eccentricity as an angler, were true.
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Intended to direct a dancer's focus toward inward sensation and liberate a dancer from visual conventions (no mirrors allowed in Gaga studios), it tends to produce an ostentatious eccentricity, a new convention that's artificial and distancing.
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The case, which was featured last year on a television program called "Posh Neighbors at War," became a litmus test of sorts for British tolerance of creativity and eccentricity, as well as a proxy class war.
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He possessed, in other words, many of the qualities once associated with the idea of a designer — drama, exaggeration, eccentricity, flamboyance — qualities that were traditionally excused in the name of artistry, or even expected and prized.
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We're all for glorious eccentricity, and whether that means pairing a tartan skirt with a check bomber or throwing a military jacket over a lace dress, this is just the inspiration we need for a closet refresh.
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He's an overgrown child whose "madness" mostly manifests itself as the kind of mass-market eccentricity that reassures parents nothing too crazy will happen, so their children can safely watch the film 100 times daily on DVD.
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But the damned fires of NBA athleticism and preparations strip so much eccentricity from the game—everyone is just so good—that lower level situations manage to preserve, and gleaning those fields can reveal some golden nourishment.
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And yet Fred's presence in my parents' life seemed to be an expression of something beyond mere eccentricity: As the days passed, I couldn't help seeing him as a late-in-life yank of the parental tether.
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"I think, with hindsight, I felt obliged to be something I wasn't — to be unusual and in line with a sort of English eccentricity that rules the roost here, although that is changing somewhat now," Ms. Packham said.
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For the more focused runners, the eccentricity of the race is impossible to ignore, but compared to other endurance events like Tough Mudder or Iron Man, it's more akin to fell running than a full-on obstacle course.
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As wildly diverse as these roles were, something about Wilder's measured, impeccably timed approach to eccentricity began to grow on his audiences, which now seemed ready to accept him as something more than just a versatile character actor.
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From the brand's conception, Mansur Gavriel's designers, Floriana Gavriel and Rachel Mansur, banked on combating the rise of eccentricity in fashion with simplicityand that good products are made better by becoming accessible to many, not just a few.
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In the seventies, when recycling came early to liberal enclaves like Burlington, Vermont, where I was, and Ithaca, New York, where Ammons lived, the humble household business of repurposing trash was seen by some as a Yankee eccentricity.
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Among the viral videos of Goldblum reading out Tweets from fans, the highlight of his summer 2018 media tour is a recent TV appearance for which he donned Prada's contrast print shirt with his signature eccentricity and nonchalance.
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And eccentricity is wonderfully the point: These dances (especially the solos) disclose vital human essences in fabulously odd ways, as the body hungrily travels in opposing directions, the leg advancing while the torso arches back or vice versa.
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The results support a theory called "eccentricity bias," which suggests that the size of the images we're looking at and whether we're looking at it with central or peripheral vision will predict which area of the brain will respond.
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"It was this super charming house, so yeah—a combination of some eccentricity that I got from my mother, my ex-wife, a little bit of the Parisian European thing, and then just things that I liked," he explained.
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There's so much weirdness and excess and eccentricity that it's still hard not to lean into the overmined, but still extremely rich writer's vein of just making lists that use the city as synecdoche for the extreme American surreal.
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Producer licensing—the process through which states approve agents and brokers to sell insurance—is mired in a web of state-by-state regulatory eccentricity that drives up the cost of compliance and, therefore, the cost to do business.
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By colliding TLC's "No Scrubs" with Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" and basking in the composite's zany eccentricity, Mouth Moods definitely feels like a stronger development in the series; Cicierega's software and sampling skills have each become more refined.
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Local fandom and infamy in Austin quickly spread to music nerds and arty types beyond, and cemented him as a figure that continued to generate more and more curiosity and praise for both his songwriting talent and fascinating eccentricity.
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And, when Dr Saleh compared the pattern of this oscillation, which is well-established back beyond 500m years ago, with that of his 100,000-year spikes of iron availability, he found that the spikes coincided with moments of maximum eccentricity.
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Thematic composition The Academy also appreciates cinematography that visually illustrates themes of the movie, such as the famous "bed of roses" shot from American Beauty, or this shot from The Aviator, which sums up its lead character's obsession, desperation, and eccentricity.
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While the movie definitely pokes fun at Florence's eccentricity, it also takes care not to be cruel, both paying homage to her legacy and exploring the human side of a woman who has been called the worst singer in history.
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And while there's been an outbreak of such surreal series, from "The Leftovers" to "Legion," the net effect of "American Gods" -- seemingly determined to dazzle with its eccentricity -- feels like nothing quite so much as an elaborate waste of time.
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"We've tried to create an interestingness that fits the scale and the community of King's Cross," the two firms noted in a statement released this week, of a project they say "couples clarity with eccentricity and anchors innovation with heritage."
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Andrew's costuming was charming for its balance of simplicity and prim eccentricity; her homemade-looking scarf and an overcoat shorter than her dress looked almost tawdry in a way that served to highlight her unusual aloofness for a female caretaker.
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Robot vacuums may have once seemed an eccentricity, but they now represent a non-trivial portion of the overall vacuum market – 20 percent worldwide, according to iRobot CEO and co-founder Colin Angle, who I spoke to at TechCrunch Beijing 2016.
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The Hills became more about over-produced drama, romantic relationships that never really went anywhere, and Spencer Pratt's eccentricity as it went on, but when it started, there was a lot more about the four young stars' education and careers.
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But during my five days on the Costa Chica, I was struck again and again by how different each of these countercultural enclaves — some of coastal Mexico's few remaining pockets of weirdness and eccentricity, artists and bohemians — are from each other.
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"Silicon Valley" has always been an inordinately smart series in regard to how the wealth swirling around the tech industry breeds a certain kind of eccentricity, one where privilege and riches can't obscure deficiencies in social graces and common sense.
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A Word With Whether lambasting racial inequity with his trademark eccentricity, or putting on a Jheri curl wig for a now-legendary parody of Rick James, Dave Chappelle has long been considered one of the most exciting stand-ups in comedy.
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The ambition and creativity is doubled in season two, with Dev (Aziz Ansari) temporarily fleeing to Italy in a lovely homage to Italian cinema and then returning to New York with a love letter to the city's diversity and eccentricity.
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The 55-year-old, famous for his messy mop of blond hair and disheveled style, has turned upper-class English eccentricity into a political asset in Britain and perfected a personal brand based on a comic talent and a seemingly shambolic style.
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As one more example of holy, disinterested eccentricity, take the figure of Maria Skobtsova, the cigarette-smoking Russian nun who lived among the down-and-out in Paris in the 1930s and was eventually executed in a Nazi gas chamber in 1945.
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Billed as "an intimate portrait of Hollywood royalty in all its eccentricity," the 95-minute film documented nearly a year of the Hollywood icons lives, leading up to Reynolds' 2015 acceptance of her Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award, which Fisher presented.
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The opening chords of "Thank You for Sending Me an Angel," an exuberantly silly rocket of a song, announce the specificity and eccentricity of their new sound: galloping drums, hyperactive picking, scratchy rhythm guitar, calmly echoey power chords overlaid atop the nervous base.
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Perhaps the best that can be said for his efforts is that, in rounds of emergency television interviews, arranged to discuss Mr Trump's latest rudeness or eccentricity, Mr Manafort was a more competent apologist for his boss than Mr Lewandowski had been.
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The pilot's most interesting relationship is between Ray and Maya, which is almost inverse parent-child: He's developed a stubborn independence from being in JJ's shadow, while she has a rebellious teenager streak that the first script sometimes pitches too far into eccentricity.
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Super 8 branch owners previously received no instruction other than to limit the art in each room to two pieces — and according to Mueller, "art" could mean wall works, sculpture, or even dried flowers, hence the decades of eclecticism and, at times, eccentricity.
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The eccentricity of HD 20782 b has been documented several times since its discovery in 2006, but, as the authors behind the current paper explain, gathering further information about the planet has been difficult thanks to its only slight changes in radial velocity.
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The dining room furniture stands out for its eccentricity, especially a cabinet that resembles a solid block of walnut burl and is outfitted with two wide bands of patinated iron (Dalbet again) that provide legs, wall attachments and a big exposed hinge.
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It's at once a homage and a parody, equally aware of that era's excesses and its glories, of the way that the most memorable 1970s R&B merged sensuality, activism, humor, toughness, outlandishness, futurism, soul roots, wild eccentricity and utopian community spirit.
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He is the most recent subject of Deb's constructor profiles, and an early-in-the-week specialist who is great at making a solve accessible to the masses, while slipping in some nuance or eccentricity that makes a grid memorable, challenging and satisfying.
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For a dose of Mendocino's wonderful eccentricity, visit The Larry Spring Museum of Common Sense Physics, a tiny two-room storefront museum that celebrates the life and work of the local inventor, lay scientist and World War II transport pilot, Larry Spring.
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For instance, there is a world of difference between Rosemont's account of George Francis Train, or "Citizen" Train, a 19th-century self-made entrepreneur who defended the Haymarket Anarchists, and online biographical accounts that focus on his "eccentricity" while eliding his progressive activism.
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Fifteen years later, more than 47,245 members have signed up for a group that could have been dismissed as another example of quintessentially British eccentricity and the society offers merch, cloud-spotting apps and specially themed excursions, like the trip to Lundy in May.
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From the moment they met, Scully and Mulder exuded opposite personas: He pored over UFO abduction cases with enthusiasm, throwing pencils into the drop ceiling of his underfunded department, and she was a studied scientist, a forensic pathologist who rivaled Mulder's eccentricity with resolved skepticism.
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But one particular eccentricity has stuck in my brain: the vast database of "face charts" on the company intranet, methodically naming and picturing the gallery's most prized collectors, ostensibly so we could tell the Real Big Spenders apart from hordes of well-dressed nobodies.
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In his review for The Times, A.O. Scott praised the balance of delight and didacticism Bong strikes, writing that "rather than turn out cardboard heroes and villains, he savors the eccentricity of his characters, in the sheer weirdness of our ingenious and idiotic species."
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The family name has one "R" and its hereditary title two, an eccentricity decided by the College of Arms, Britain's heraldic authority, when an ancestor, Robert Smith, took the name Carington and was designated First Baron of Carrington by King George III in 274.
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For all the inspiration that Michele had taken from English style, the collection did not look especially British—though a slouchy Union Jack-patterned sweater was a clear homage to Vivienne Westwood, the British designer known for translating native English eccentricity into high fashion.
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Where his Manchester City counterpart, Pep Guardiola, for example, is seen as a tactical mastermind and philosopher, his eccentricity read as a sign that he understands soccer at some deeper level than everyone else, there are those who see Klopp as nothing more than a cheerleader.
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Last year, Dr. Kane and his colleagues estimated that a planet with an eccentricity as high as 30 or even 40 percent could remain habitable — that is, it could have a temperature that supports liquid water — even as it swings toward and away from its host star.
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The song is significant not only for the smooth listening experience it provides but also for the fact that it joins DC's street identity with its eccentricity—something that was a routine convergence in DC go-go but an uncommon one in the city's rap scene.
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This new research looked at how a planet&aposs obliquity, or the angle at which a planet&aposs rotation axis tilts, and its orbital eccentricity, a parameter that determines the amount that an orbit deviates from a perfect circle, could affect that planet&aposs potential to be habitable.
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Johnson, 55, has made a point of turning run-of-the-mill publicity events into a comedic adventure thanks to a large helping of upper-class English eccentricity, a trait that has made him popular with many Britons who see him as the antithesis of drab political rivals.
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The flat-out bonkers eccentricity of "Umbrella Academy" includes the children having been raised by an android nanny and a talking chimpanzee butler whose vocal abilities aren't even addressed -- and that's not even the really weird part, what with the time travel and apocalyptic threads hovering over the story.
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" When Mr. Lacroix moved into fashion in the 19673s (because, he said, "costume was dead") and opened his couture house in 1987, his timing was spot on: "Fashion was very costume-like, with great eccentricity and characters such as socialite Marie-Hélène de Rothschild still hosting masquerade balls.
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"This incredible seesaw of extreme conditions would devastate the planet, and I expect that it would not take very long for the planet to become a desiccated, barren rock," said Stephen Kane, an astronomer at the University of California, Riverside, who described his own research as obsessed with eccentricity.
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Given the eccentricity of his tone and the sad, self-mocking little-Englishness of, for instance, his verse "Self-Portrait of the Laureate of Nonsense"— He reads, but he cannot speak, Spanish, He cannot abide ginger-beer: Ere the days of his pilgrimage vanish, How pleasant to know Mr. Lear!
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But where Pierce was defined by a banal stability that got him an assload of points, a no-debate spot in the Hall of Fame and the inner circle of Celtics legend, Metta's eccentricity and intensity sent him all over the world, hunting for whatever fulfilled him moment to moment.
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But Ms. White, who released her first solo album in 2008 (then billed as Santogold), has taken on a 21st-century agenda: autonomy, eccentricity, fun, sensuality, iconoclasm and critiques of power, money and online culture, all to be wrapped in tunes so concise that kids on a playground could sing along.
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In the spring, form met function on the rain-soaked streets of London, where the photographer Johnny Dufort and the stylist Jane How captured new renderings of classic Savile Row tailoring — jumpsuits, trench coats, double-breasted suits and sharply pleated trousers — in a homage to the district's precision and eccentricity.
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Short of burning the whole thing down, there was little that Arctic Monkeys could attempt with LP201843 that wouldn't be branded predictable—so they just said "fuck it," leaned into the eccentricity which always bumped them ahead of their indie peers, and made a concept record about a hotel in space.
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Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds bills itself as a "story of the family's complicated love," and promises "an intimate portrait of Hollywood royalty in all its eccentricity" and the nearly two-minute trailer shows off exactly that, along with many sweet moments (and witty banter) shared between Fisher and Reynolds.
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I also really appreciate that the story just dives straight into its most decadent tropes: the frigid family dynamics, the terrifying eccentricity of Camille's mother and her creepily passive stepfather, the scarring — because normally in this kind of story, these are the sorts of things that get revealed to us over time.
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But the director Vladimir Mirzoev's samovar-free account of that early 1900s chronicle of social and political upheaval settles for eccentricity at the expense of emotional resonance: The characters often move as one, as if under some sort of collective spell, and when they do assert their individuality, it's to limited effect.
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In an adjacent section called "New York Portrait," we move indoors, with a 1940 Hopper sketch of a male office worker and a secretary sharing a tense, possibly steamy evening of overtime and a 1978 photo of Cindy Sherman impersonating a perky gal Friday whose only obvious eccentricity is wearing blackout glasses while she types.
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Lewis Caroll most certainly knew about what came to be known as mad hatter syndrome, which produced tremors and irritability, and had probably witnessed it himself (more recent and accurate speculations, however, suggest the Mad Hatter was based not on the illness, but on British furniture dealer Theophilus Carter, whose eccentricity had no neurological cause).
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Kanye West and Donald Trump and the Rise of Human Clickbait Max Read looks at Thursday's summit between Donald Trump and Kanye West in the context of recent discussions around social media and mental illness: The connection between eccentricity, erratic behavior, celebrity, and attention is not, obviously, a new dynamic — think of Tom Cruise or Charlie Sheen.
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That faux-naïf eccentricity has become an international period style is evinced by the fact that show could be a cross between Andy Coolquitt and Tal R. This should come across as irritatingly derivative, but Jones succeeds in walking a line between sincerity and knowingness, and the inventive playfulness of the work actually feels inventive and playful.
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TATBILB (as fans are calling it) is in direct dialogue with the the pastel suburban oeuvre of John Hughes—the characters watch Sixteen Candles mid-film—but it also subverts the Hughesian gaze, which was, at heart, white and moneyed, where ethnicity and eccentricity were at best, half-baked cantilevers for the main storyline, and at worst, offensive punchlines.
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Along with the uncanny determinism of her surname, Helen DeWitt has several assets, inherited or acquired, useful to the comic writer: she is a trained classicist, whose teasing instincts have been schooled in ancient Greek and Roman satire; her style is brilliantly heartless, and cork-dry; original herself, she is a witty examiner of human and cultural eccentricity.
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To this day Turing is recognized in his own country and among a broad society of scientists as a pillar of achievement who had fused brilliance and eccentricity, had moved comfortably in the abstruse realms of mathematics and cryptography but awkwardly in social settings, and had been brought low by the hostile society into which he was born.
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"Ensor also loved being by the sea, and the light here, and the implicit eccentricity of the town, which offered him a ringside seat on a miniature version of the great social, political and artistic dramas and traumas that shaped Europe over the course of nearly a century, until his death in 1949," Mr. Tricot said.
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