What is "idiosyncratic"

Usage examples of "idiosyncratic".

The NWG was an adhocracy of intensely creative, sleep-deprived, idiosyncratic, well-meaning computer geniuses.

In every case, from the most personal and idiosyncratic to the most collective and historical, the archetypal nature of the drama remains the same.

This is some kind of idiosyncratic cryonic damage on a cellular or subcellular level.

It only says that the apprehension is in some profound sense embedded in the structure and the dynamic process of the Kosmos as wellit is not merely a subjective, personal, idiosyncratic fantasyand this is why the mystical experiences always carry the sense of recognition and rediscovery.

There are certain idiosyncratic structures of face and body found only in the members of the Celtic subrace, and the stubble of beard on his face, though darkened by prolonged abstinence from the means of ablution, had a reddish tinge.

The toolmarks analysts found nothing idiosyncratic about the blade that could identify it as anything more than a likely weapon in the Ivy Campbell murder.

This is partly because of a shortage of relevant fossils, but partly also because of an idiosyncratic Swede named Erik Jarvik whose odd interpretations and secretive manner held back progress on this question for almost half a century.

Here and there, between one of the mountains and another, you might catch the slightest hint of blue-green, the idiosyncratic cyanophyll of the Trill homeworld, laid in a thin layer over the unforgiving stone.

Some of the busy crowd wore clothes as antiquely idiosyncratic as those of Renie and her friends, but others, particularly men, were garbed in what to Renie seemed a nineteenth century style.

In Going, Going, Gone, Womack gives us another supremely idiosyncratic narrative voice, but the effect is much the opposite: Bullitt celebrates the endlessly generative power of language, reveling in every opportunity to substitute colorful metaphor for straight-on blandness.

The chorus master had provided the emissary with an expert if idiosyncratic knowledge of Greek during three hours in a private room.

That I expected, having seen the way Slade gourmandized, yet I wondered how he would take to the Icelandic cuisine which is idiosyncratic, to say the least.

His known idiosyncratic reaction to the drug, so historically useful in evading hostile interrogation, also made it impossible for him to use it to clear himself of any accusation.

His known idiosyncratic reaction to the drug, so historically useful in evading hostile interrogation, also made it impossible for him to use it clear himself of any accusation.

An idiosyncratic reaction to the anesthetic left her in a coma, with her vital signs sinking fast.