Cranks

Usage examples of eccentrics.

Was EFF a genuinely important political development--or merely a clique of wealthy eccentrics, dabbling in matters better left to the proper authorities?

Under the old order, which enabled those whose lives were secure to play the fools and eccentrics at the expense of the others while the majority led a wretched existence, it had been only too easy to mistake the foolishness and idleness of a privileged minority for genuine character and originality.

But chaos conditions also highlighted essential antagonisms between eccentrics and meritocrats, as happened in Junin long ago, when a struggle between faith and reason sent part of Trantor reeling.

Nor, in all probability had Maserd, since most victims of brain fever later went on to become either eccentrics or meritocrats.

Even eccentrics and citizens dismiss us as if we are part of the background.

Not just a few people, not just a few technicians and eccentrics, but thousands of people, quite normal people.

Not because of all the time I'd spent studying the shitdogs, but because I'd been raised by eccentrics and had learned to tolerate, if not appreciate, strangeness.