So fasting in Lent or not eating meat on Fridays seems odd, even eccentric now. |
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Subsequently, the muscle is also more vulnerable to rupture during an eccentric contraction. |
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Prosecutors said after investigating the eccentric heiress there was not enough evidence to convict her of petty theft. |
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She could have been a true British eccentric, although I seem to recall her having a foreign accent. |
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So he was probably regarded as a little bit eccentric and odd, and a bit old-fashioned to begin with. |
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He became a recluse, and his rare film appearances were overshadowed by tales of his eccentric behaviour on set. |
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There is a very unique contest being backed by an anonymous group of eccentric billionaires. |
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At time of writing the full transcript of the session wasn't yet available, so we're currently unable to dig deeper into this eccentric argument. |
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I suspect I'll be treated as mildly eccentric and get a few curious questions from people I know who may have read the article. |
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The voice is Kelly's throughout, down to the lack of punctuation, eccentric spellings and curious syntax. |
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The electronic throttle inputs are sent to a stepper motor which controls an eccentric shaft positioned next to the intake camshaft. |
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The artist was drawn to Ludwig's life after seeing a biography on the eccentric king's behaviour. |
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Jane found the twenty-one-year-old Cambridge postgraduate a fascinating and slightly eccentric character and was immediately attracted to him. |
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In particular, the external rotator muscles and the lower trapezius muscle are the focus of the eccentric program. |
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They are known for their lavish and eccentric parties, so we expect nothing less from their wedding shindig. |
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The pub itself is a delightful treasure trove of eccentric bric-a-brac and antiques, which makes it an even more desirable destination. |
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I am originally from Canada, where this attitude was considered rather eccentric, to say the least. |
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When his first wife walked out on him, she accused the eccentric, chimney-toppling steeplejack of living in the last century. |
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Somewhat sadly, he has worked himself into a niche for eccentric bad guys whose haphazard oddness makes them sinister. |
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He then rejiggered it to echo both the museum's eccentric modernist window and his childhood bedroom. |
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The film's genuine oddness derives mostly from the presence and performance of Glover, eccentric actor extraordinaire. |
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Brando was also known for his eccentric behaviour and sometimes outlandish salary demands. |
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Always eccentric, Dietrich put on trousers, tuxedos and men's suits long before other women dared. |
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He was the picture of the tweedy, eccentric professor, bookish and reclusive. |
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He looked forward to a gentle decline into an eccentric and amiable dotage, his twilit years untroubled by chore or challenge. |
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Burton also confessed he and Helena laugh off claims they are eccentric oddballs. |
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His gregarious and eccentric personality is the perfect mix for a good television programme. |
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Translation was left to a few eccentric sinologists or missionaries, whose main concern after all was to save a few pagan souls. |
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Still, he is the innocuous core that links a huge cast of eccentric characters, foremost his war buddy and closest friend Samad Iqbal. |
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Those around him worry that her death has unbalanced him, though his narrative voice is sane, if eccentric. |
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He became increasingly eccentric, bursting into song or verse during parliamentary sittings and falling asleep at public meetings. |
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Even though he mucks up all the time, he gets away with it because the teachers think of him as some sort of eccentric genius. |
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For it is in the essence of his behaviour that he should be eccentric, unconventional and rash in the eyes of public opinion. |
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Speak as your mother taught you to do, not as a histrionic eccentric Caledonian! |
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With quite the most eccentric vocal performance of this, or indeed of any other Eurovision, this could either sweep the board or flop completely. |
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Ultimately, this is just one of the pitfalls of working with eccentric artistic geniuses. |
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The inspiration of the 'Singapore Aunties' project comes from our eccentric and eclectic south-eastern colloquialism. |
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Friends say she is rather shy, retiring and eccentric in the best British sense. |
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This eccentric character never enjoyed the faculty of sight, and many still living remember the sonsy, contented, and sightless face of Willie. |
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After an unsettled childhood he transformed himself into an eccentric showman and anti-hero of British boxing in the Nineties. |
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I work with a bunch of peculiar, eccentric guys who have a lot of really strange ideas. |
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Most eccentric of the children is Carolyn, now 54, who gallivants about in a flat black Gaucho hat, paints and teaches art classes. |
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After all, one has a well-honed reputation for crotchetiness and the other is a bit eccentric. |
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His high jinks, exuberance and grandstanding were the marks of an eccentric, a playboy, a socialite. |
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The exhibition features a surreal and eccentric collection of creations such as three-spouted teapots and upside-down jugs. |
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He was interrupted by the eccentric Calculus teacher breezing through the door. |
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All the same, Lola crops up frequently in our discussions like a slightly eccentric but beloved foreign cousin. |
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Finally, the eccentric and creaking Greek justice system has accepted that Andy and his fellow enthusiasts are innocent. |
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Crazy golf, the eccentric relative of the real thing, claims to be Britain's most popular seaside sport. |
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In life he was regarded as an awkward customer, a cranky, eccentric figure with a talent for rubbing people up the wrong way. |
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It was always an eccentric business principle, giving things away for free. |
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I don't think he's going to be as eccentric and as foppish as some of his incarnations. |
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The film offered a portrait of a young Greek god, albeit an eccentric one, obsessed with speed, cinema and women. |
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There are eccentric people, who spend hours trying to capture the colors produced by fluorescent minerals under ultraviolet radiation. |
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Elbow flexors and horizontal flexors in the shoulder act alternately in concentric and eccentric contractions. |
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However, concentric or eccentric isokinetic testing may have provided better measurements of quadriceps muscle strength. |
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Irregularly placed circular roof lights complement the eccentric circular desk. |
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Yet maybe that eccentric, rootless Viking intrepidity would suit her hero more. |
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Anyway, the mystery of James' eccentric behavior is eventually revealed in a plot twist that was blindingly obvious half an hour earlier. |
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At first regarded as an eccentric minor poet, she is now considered a major writer of startling originality. |
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In his time he was considered eccentric for conserving wildlife while most of his contemporaries were shooting it. |
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But Sedna is smaller and more eccentric still, so if you count out Pluto, you have to count out Sedna too. |
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By simply turning the eccentric collar holding the laser, the beam's direction is finely adjusted. |
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But all too often you're not able to take full advantage of your eccentric capabilities because you fail concentrically first. |
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The soft-tissue tightness may be from muscle inflexibility due to significant and repetitive eccentric muscle forces during arm deceleration. |
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There's also a great deal of comic relief in the form of eccentric and quotable marginal characters. |
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Here in Seville, he is as charming, eccentric and as generous of spirit as ever. |
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From 1979 until 1999 Pluto was not the outermost planet, its eccentric orbit making Neptune the furthest from the Sun. |
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Part of the public's fascination lay in the author's somewhat eccentric lifestyle. |
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This obsession has made me so eccentric that I've become rather impassive towards what others are up to. |
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Past discoveries of planets in other solar systems had wildly eccentric orbits or orbited very close to the star. |
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Under his masterful direction, with its eccentric perspectives and brilliant compositions, everything comes together delightfully. |
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What began as a zoo with a fairground attached has evolved into an exciting yet eccentric family-run park. |
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Others were a little eccentric and gave away yo-yos, 3D paper buses and stress globes. |
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A collection of awesome, eccentric, fascinating and completely whacko facts. |
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Given that some of the eccentric roles are godsends to actors, it is how they carry them off that separate the best from the rest. |
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An eccentric rock star and his beautiful sister on a ranch in the middle of nowhere is irresistible fodder for the gossipmongers. |
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A former boxing champion, he came to power in a 1971 coup and his rule was characterised by eccentric behaviour and violent purges. |
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Both Harriet and William strike the reader as somewhat eccentric, the sort of neighbors or colleagues one tolerates but befriends only warily. |
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Gasoline or diesel engines drive an eccentric weight at a high speed to develop compaction force and vibrations that compact granular soils. |
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Following Coleridge's death the second editor was Frederick Furnivall, a fantastic eccentric in an age of eccentrics. |
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All three plays were enjoyable and engaging in their own eccentric ways and all three directors deserve praise. |
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It means I get to have the company of this adorable eccentric woman for longer. |
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The book explores the relationship between an impossibly eccentric contemporary composer and his grudging biographer. |
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But how many know the story of J.M. Barrie, the eccentric author of the whimsical Peter Pan? |
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Her eccentric characters are imbued with humanity, and the ending is stunning. |
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She's the 19-year-old author of a wilfully eccentric, impossible to categorise debut album. |
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Gone is the willowy beauty, and in her place is a thin, pinched, dowdy lady, an eccentric Victorian who wears ugly hats. |
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A slight, sickly child, he grew increasingly odd and eccentric, throwing tantrums, fussing about and repeatedly breaking wind. |
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And Bertram, full of the most charisma and promise as a youth, ends his days as a minor and mildly eccentric academic. |
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He received criticism for his eccentric and reclusive lifestyle and for his attempts to use cosmetic surgery to change his skin colour. |
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He's a wise sage, a joker, a politico, an eccentric artist, a culture buff and a visionary rolled into one. |
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His music is decidedly eccentric and remarkably varied, from ambient drones to industrial noise to metallic percussion. |
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Few understood Messiaen early on, most considering him an eccentric if endearing crackpot. |
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Wentworth-Day was an eccentric character, but he certainly knew his subject. |
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As Mr Pope rightly says, it's time the eccentric and discriminatory system was radically reformed. |
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Before the Second World War, yachting was a genteel, sometimes eccentric pastime infrequently practiced in the islands. |
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The history of cinema is littered with priceless pearls of wisdom delivered by eccentric movie producers. |
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Each drawing is meticulously rendered in several eccentric representational styles. |
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And Flaus is marvellous in the role, making the eccentric, repellent Krapp a sympathetic figure. |
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Together, the two extremes define the boundaries of a highly eccentric orbit. |
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Those expecting the eccentric enjambement and biting wordplay of this artist will be disappointed. |
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Tony Kaye earned a reputation for eccentric behaviour during his time as a commercials director in Britain. |
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Slim fits, cropped styles, kimono prints or cuts re-interpret individualism as eccentric. |
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The comforting, if deeply eccentric, typography and layout of the original are still there, along with a mix of photographs new and old. |
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How did Liebfraumilch end up making condiment versions of their bottles, and how did these end up in an eccentric bread and breakfast place? |
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Wyatt maybe locked into his role as great British eccentric, but he richly deserves a wider audience. |
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Manchester International Arts will be entertaining passers-by with a series of eccentric shows. |
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People with paranoid disorders are often hostile and suspicious and appear eccentric. |
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According to the company, the high-speed linear motor wheelhead follows the eccentric profile and achieves roundness to 2 microns. |
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An apsidal motion with a period of 80.7 years was confirmed and a third body in an eccentric orbit with a period of 85.4 years was found. |
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Long-period comets can have orbits ranging from eccentric ellipses to parabolas to even modest hyperbolas. |
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Almost the first thing you see, is Marcel Duchamp's rotorelief of a disc with slightly eccentric circles of hatched red, black and white. |
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The eccentric singer reportedly came up with the idea after dreaming he met little green men from outer space. |
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Peak torque ratios of eccentric external rotators to concentric internal rotators were selected as the dependent variables. |
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With all this eccentric wordplay under review, an ironic summation is in order. |
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This seems to mean that the exhibition is indifferent to abstraction, surrealism or art of an introverted, asocial or eccentric nature. |
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Ask him about the weather and he delivers a an eccentric little dithyramb on whether or not karate can be viewed with the third eye. |
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What has allowed Catmull to manage Pixar's eccentric staff is his nearly egoless leadership. |
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Although it kept him from becoming entirely eccentric, sadly this imaginary power was not without its drawbacks. |
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She has bitterly resigned herself to the ephemeralness of love with an eccentric and peripatetic young Dutchman. |
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She's a kooky, overtalkative eccentric and there's a breathless implausibility to the way the romance develops. |
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Concentric contractions require the greatest energy expenditure, followed by isometric and eccentric contractions. |
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It might have been a rather bleak and drizzly evening when the madcap group exploded on stage, fronted by the eccentric Anthony Kiedis. |
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The foam cells were oval to polygonal with a moderate amount of cytoplasm and central to eccentric small nuclei. |
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Roffis was courageous, and decided to take a chance with the eccentric designer, already known as the madman. |
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They're an entirely dysfunctional lot, from a long line of eccentric ancestors that includes a couple of human cannonballs. |
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Filtered through his camera lens, the story veers off on eccentric tangents. |
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Her unusual exorbitance results from an eccentric upbringing that openly accepts and welcomes transience. |
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She's eccentric but never dotty and, unlike some Arcatis, her femininity is never in doubt. |
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The eccentric drunk's largesse solves the girl's problems, but when the scatterbrain forgets he gave her the money, she is arrested for thieving. |
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Chess is renowned for producing eccentric and socially backward individuals. |
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The less mature neurons had abundant pink cytoplasm with central to slightly eccentric nuclei and conspicuous nucleoli. |
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He never overplays or goes for the cheap laugh, and thus makes his eccentric character oddly sympathetic. |
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But suckling a pig in imitation of the Virgin Mary, as she did for one album's inside sleeve, is eccentric in anyone's book. |
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Poverty and isolation drastically affected Hannah's already eccentric personality. |
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Eating only the tops of muffins is reported as their candidate's charmingly eccentric habit. |
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As a head Stubbs was charismatic and outwardly eccentric, making it policy to shake every child's hand and say something nice about them. |
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He is often regarded in the West as a bumbling eccentric, renowned for issuing barmy decrees. |
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Far from being a deep-dyed traditionalist, he is a maverick, a valuable eccentric, who uses his influence to stimulate rather than stifle debate. |
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Though not altogether successful, it had the novelty value of being set in the eccentric subculture of stylists and hairdressing salons. |
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Are there any others out there who find comfort in the stub of pencil on a string and other mildly eccentric aspects of elections past? |
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And yet Warm Water meanders aimlessly towards a sentimental conclusion, introducing eccentric characters along the way who are never followed up. |
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She is an eccentric in the fashion of a good many English women who have taken to the East, i.e. a mixture of battiness and extreme practicality. |
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The ranks of mannerist musicians furnish numerous instances of melancholiac and eccentric artists. |
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It has an eccentric layout, with odd corners, passageways and staircases here and there. |
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Both of them were eccentric originals, portending the radical pluralism that overtook the art world in the next generation. |
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As Sophie, the druggie flatmate, she brings the right level of emotional distance her part, a darkly moulded background eccentric typical of Leigh's serio-comic work. |
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I was busy imagining the eccentric old rock polisher who donated these wonderful little irregular cubes of wonder to the store while on his deathbed. |
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Pioneers to this region must have been astounded to find massive tree falls that had literally been turned to stone, as if it were an eccentric display of some fabled deity. |
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Locally, in earlier years, he was probably regarded as an eccentric as he propagated ideas which even the average Yorkshire brain had difficulty in assimilating. |
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That the drama commences with eccentric characters and their disloyal proclivities causes the viewer to be disillusioned with the whole idea of relationships. |
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Undeniably at home in that genre, Snyder's strikingly eccentric work ultimately returns us to the innate dualities that constitute both our individual and collective selves. |
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It is based on the epicyclic and eccentric models of planetary motion. |
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In drifting, they may sweep through locations where other moons disturb them, making their orbits eccentric or inclined relative to the planet's equator. |
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To call him a character would be an understatement, but beneath the eccentric exterior lurked a diver with levels of discipline and skill I have rarely seen on my travels. |
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The most shameless and crude formulation of ethnomania was given by the arrogant and eccentric scholar Comte de Joseph Arthur Gobineau, a virulent advocate of racism. |
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To his peers, he's an all-star eccentric who is pitied or clucked over protectively as often as he is envied. |
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June Ambrose is known in certain circles for slightly her eccentric tastes. |
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Athanasius Kircher, the eccentric seventeenth-century Jesuit polymath, collector of curiosities, and borderline crank. |
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One of my most important mentors was a brilliant and eccentric rabbi from Bethesda, Maryland. |
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Those who have interacted with him describe him as brusque, eccentric, clenched. |
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I am too subversive and eccentric for most of the people I work with to really like, and I am too sensitive to to take their abrasive personalities with gentle good humour. |
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Decorated with wallpapers and furnishings from the late 1800s, rooms have the eccentric yet comfortable Victorian charm of your grandmother's home. |
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The chequered life of Clarissa Dickson Wright, the larger of the two stars on the eccentric cooking show Two Fat Ladies. |
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The women Peterson photographed were offbeat, eccentric, irreverent, and not conventionally pretty. |
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In more recent years, Brando's brilliance as an actor was overshadowed by his eccentric reclusion, the turmoil in his family life and financial disputes. |
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He is addicted to his demimonde of Damon Runyon hoods and eccentric celebrities. |
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Sometimes I wear my silk pyjamas when I am going for a walk in the mornings, does that make me eccentric? |
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She was one of the wealthiest women in the world and certainly the most eccentric noble of her time. |
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Free-spirited and eccentric she, the rolling stone of the crew, fills most of her time trying to find herself when she's not working on her documentary about single mothers. |
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Always eccentric, he was rumoured to have lost the plot completely. |
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Her plays have been eccentric, attitudinizing, overambitious. |
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This philosophy is a natural extension of the eccentric shambhala tradition in which Rinzler grew up. |
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British tradition dictates that the posher you are, the more eccentric the headgear. |
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April will see another French classic, Jacques Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann, in a more avant-garde production with eccentric sets and costumes supplied by Portland Opera. |
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This madness went will with the eccentric enthusiasm of hundreds of people gathered, filling the whole atmosphere with a strong current of passion and action. |
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The exhibition features a surreal and eccentric collection of creations such as three spouted teapots and upside down jugs, and opens tomorrow, Saturday. |
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His collection reflected his eccentric take on classic American sportswear. |
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Here we have an inept comedian bear, a diva pig, a masochistic daredevil, a psychotic foreign culinary expert, and a raucously eccentric house band. |
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A generation of rich and eccentric toffs with more money than sense block out what's happening in the world by immersing themselves in one party after another. |
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The intermediate arm is finished to a tolerance of 0.008 mm, and the cams controlling the eccentric shaft are machined to tolerances of a few hundredths of a millimeter. |
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No, the outsize and eccentric figures of the Empire have passed into history, and now the establishment is filled with dull corporatist metropolitans. |
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Ideal and absurd, they bespeak a wonderfully eccentric imagination. |
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I'd been known for dressing rather eccentric, and today I wore a red minidress with white polka dots and long black boots that extended up past my knees. |
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The eccentric singer says he has a wonderful relationship with his lover of 11 years, but they love bickering and even argue over who gets to sit where. |
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But comets, thanks to their eccentric and frequently long orbits, are trickier to study up close. |
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Somehow, a bold and eccentric encampment gave heart to progressives at all levels of respectability. |
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They are reputed persons of a singular, wayward, and eccentric character. |
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Many slather gray mud over their naked skin, giving themselves a wan, ghoulish cast, and they saunter through a surreal panorama punctuated by eccentric installations. |
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He is one of Britain's most well-loved actors, best known for unthreatening, mildly eccentric roles in television sitcoms like The Good Life and Ever Decreasing Circles. |
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The new style of their music, net T-shirts, which exposed more than was usual then, her unyieldingness and eccentric opinions caused lots of bans and prohibitions. |
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Their earthly needs are tended to by Mrs Doyle, the downtrodden, eccentric and pathologically dedicated housekeeper. |
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The eccentric Canadian pianist shows up as a major character in the book, but the biographical facts are all wrong. |
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Designed by an eccentric Italian fridge magnate and built by BMW, of all companies, the Isetta bubble car deserves its own quirky chapter in the history of post-war motoring. |
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Described as a prankster, Houston, Texas based Mark Flood is part punk-rock musician, part eccentric artist. |
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One of the many delights of the increasingly eccentric Midsomer Murders is the presence of wonderful actors doing bit parts as country squires and stable girls. |
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Van Meene's camera tends to linger on eccentric but captivating details. |
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More recently, we have the eccentric cameos of Richard Cobb and causeries of A.J.P. Taylor, of which he said they were evidence that he had run out of historical subjects. |
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Both band and bib were beaded, although the main design was usually on the bib, which in many cases was cut into eccentric shapes to outline the beaded design. |
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Who does not remember the eccentric hero who chose to live in the medieval world of chivalry and thought of himself as a knight in shining armour? |
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It must be nice to be in the pay of eccentric old rich conservative men, who arrange for you to testify in congress about things you know nothing about. |
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When Winston Churchill visited Bletchley during the war to make a speech to the codebreakers, he thought they were ill-dressed, ill-mannered and eccentric. |
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Mismatched coloured tiles and gilt-framed mirrors decorate the walls, and there's an eccentric chandelier made out of whisks, ladles and colanders. |
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The artist's Pantone color play, which brings to mind the eccentric palette of the late Paul Feeley, highlights the paintings' perceptual inconsonance. |
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This gives the writer some of his most felicitous moments as he considers a series of eccentric individualists who gave their lives to the weather. |
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Endearingly fey one minute, Norton will then go straight for the jugular of some poor, taste-challenged Pom in the audience, or phone an American eccentric on his dog-phone. |
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A graduated program of swimming and stationary bicycling, along with isometric, isotonic, and eccentric strengthening in the later stages is prescribed. |
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Having been to Royal Ascot in Berkshire last year, my verdict was that the northern meeting was less flamboyant and eccentric, but more flighty and fashionable. |
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Earle's audience is a combination of alt-country, Texas fans who have stayed with him on his eccentric ride, roots rockers, and adventuresome folkies. |
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Combined with their eccentric outfits and general craziness, I'd say they're not too concerned with retaining the popularity they enjoyed a few years ago. |
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The works often delve into the lives of the quirky, the eccentric, and the just plain daffy with comic precision and a certain amount of heartwarming pathos. |
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The world rang with stories of his romantic bravery, his gallantries, his eccentric manners, and his political intrigues, for he nearly contrived to be elected King of Poland. |
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He gives a smile as he recalls that others have called him eccentric. |
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The place is certainly atmospheric, the owner charmingly eccentric. |
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Born into a bookish, slightly eccentric family, she grew up in the shadow of her mother's nervous temperament and the role of caretaker she assumed as a result. |
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During the encounter, one is thrown into the eccentric orbit and remains in the Solar System while the other is ejected into interstellar space where it wanders forever. |
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Some orbits are so eccentric that they never loop back around again. |
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The shelf life of a true eccentric is not very long in Hollywood. |
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Several spoke of him as a harmless and even lovable eccentric. |
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You've got your clock-watchers, an indoor breed that delight in detail and can veer towards the eccentric. |
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A Christmas ritual of baking fruitcakes symbolizes the story of Buddy and his eccentric, elderly cousin. |
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In early 1881, he is a chemistry student with a number of eccentric interests, almost all of which make him adept at solving crimes. |
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Marva Munson, the Coens' killable lady, is equally as eccentric and fully as marginalized as her British counterpart. |
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Trial lawyers, always a colorful and eclectic bunch.... Most were lone gunmen too eccentric to keep much of a staff. |
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Micmacs Film4, 9pm PREMIERE Dany Boom stars in this quirky comedy about an eccentric drifter with a bullet lodged in his head. |
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This is puzzling because Mimas is closer to Saturn than Enceladus, and the Mimantean orbit is much more eccentric than the Enceladean orbit. |
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Sellers portrayed Sir Guy Grand, an eccentric billionaire who plays elaborate practical jokes on people. |
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He was a man of a most eccentric turn of mind, and great singularity of conduct. |
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For Lee is a twitcher, one of those eccentric bird watchers who spend their lives searching for rare specimens. |
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It revealed a fine man, who was also the epitome of English eccentric dottiness. |
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That's because he comes on exactly like Elaine's boss, the visionary eccentric and control freak J Peterman. |
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Later that year legendary Bond Girl Honor Blackman enjoyed a five-episode cameo role playing an eccentric wife swapper called Rula Romanoff. |
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Before, I was very nervous that I'd be typecast as the weird, eccentric actor that couldn't get movies greenlit. |
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Downey's own roots genius turns his musicological attention to California songwriters for this moody, slightly eccentric cover collection. |
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In the 18th century, the American entrepreneur Timothy Dexter, regarded as an eccentric, defied this idiom. |
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For many, the streak of eccentric adventure is the fun of it all. |
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But as money poured into their bank accounts, they grew stingier and more eccentric by the day. |
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Knowing Blake was too eccentric to produce a popular work, Cromek promptly commissioned Blake's friend Thomas Stothard to execute the concept. |
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Three eccentric parapsychologists go into business hunting spooks in New York city. |
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As of 2008, Margaret had the most eccentric orbit of any moon in the solar system, though Nereid's mean eccentricity is greater. |
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By the time Prem's eccentric family finds the real truth about their visitor, Prem has already fallen in love with her. |
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Lewis's own mother had died when he was a child, and his father was distant, demanding, and eccentric. |
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Mistrusting banks, the eccentric old man kept a sockful of silver coins under his mattress. |
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The three actors portrayed eccentric parapsychologists in New York City, who start a ghost-catching business. |
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During nearly 42 years in power in Libya, Muammar Gaddafi was one of the world's most eccentric dictators. |
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Mangin turned himself into an eccentric figure, and Barnumized the business of selling pencils. |
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Matthew Murray improved the working of these valves by driving them with an eccentric gear attached to the rotating shaft of the engine. |
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The new size range features a unique double eccentric off-center design and excellent chemical compatibility. |
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On the other hand, the use of bifocals can be difficult for people with central scotomas and eccentric viewing. |
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Central to the story was Steve Eisman, an eccentric and rebarbative hedge-funder who was one of the earliest to see through the subprime lies. |
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Thus, the long transits are likely due to the photoeccentric effect and our transit fits hint at an eccentric orbit. |
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Ultrasonography demonstrated a cystic lesion in the superficial lobe with eccentric hyperechoic foci suggestive of a scolex. |
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Furthermore, the eccentric load is moved to a position in which myotomes within the muscle can produce maximum contraction. |
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The Syntaxis adopted Hipparchus' solar model, which consisted of a simple eccentric deferent. |
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This ideal can be approximated by use of levers and linkages connected to a fixed eccentric. |
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Hardy was extremely shy as a child, and was socially awkward, cold and eccentric throughout his life. |
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He played Xenophillius Lovegood, editor of the wizarding magazine The Quibbler and father of the eccentric Luna Lovegood. |
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Modalities, eccentric strengthening, and hands-on physical therapy are immediately necessary. |
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A star orbiting a supermassive black hole on an eccentric precessing orbit covers an axisymmetric annulus. |
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Roberts was known in the entertainment industry as a legendary alcoholic, with a history of eccentric behaviour. |
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An advertising campaign launched in 2000 featured eccentric characters and situations. |
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The researchers suggested that the eccentric damage induced by their protocol may have been too severe for the creatine repair mechanisms to overcome. |
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The tester identified the retinal location where the participant maintained fixation, either at the fovea or at a PRL in an eccentric retinal position. |
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In a variety of 1940s costumes, he will show how eccentric pilots, spivs and WAAFs all did their bit to keep our comedic bit up as Hitler's bombs rained down on Merseyside. |
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The fractures may lead down to a part of the moon that is tidally heated by the moon's repeated flexing, as it follows an eccentric orbit around Saturn. |
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First, adding a specific weight to a precise location on the cam creates a flywheel effect, exaggerating the mechanical advantage of an off-center or eccentric cam. |
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But the Spice Boys and Little Italy were hijacked by a bouncing Czech, a floundering Frenchman and an eccentric referee in this Anfield bone-shaker. |
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The incomparable actor does double voice duty in Happy Feet, also featuring as the eccentric Rockhopper penguin Lovelace, the Guru of Adelie Land who also narrates the story. |
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A tiny, feisty woman who always spoke her mind, Charlotte was an eccentric in the wonderful way that some women from the last century were natural eccentrics. |
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They are being invited to join Mouse on his adventurous journey through the deep, dark wood as he meets a wheeler-dealer fox, an eccentric owl and a party-mad snake. |
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Site includes weekly specials, newest items, and information on collecting vintage items and offers layaway. A must-see sight for the eccentric weddinggoer. |
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Wonderfully sustained surreal fun as agoraphobic Bull recalls his bizarre Euro road trip with eccentric best pal Bunny and the Spanish waitress they picked up in Poland. |
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No additional gross placental abnormalities, such as succenturiate lobe, vasa previa, or eccentric cord insertion, were identified in these cases. |
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Horizontal milling machines also have a C or Q axis, allowing the horizontally mounted workpiece to be rotated, essentially allowing asymmetric and eccentric turning. |
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A few years before the St Ives Borough Police amalgamated with the county police, the elderly head constable Mr Bennett had become frail and eccentric. |
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With the exception of some eccentric entries in Admiral Byrd's diaries, no real explanation for the early termination has ever been officially given. |
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It was hard to tell sometimes with Junius Booth whether he was just plain insane or merely out of his box on booze, so famed was he for his eccentric nature. |
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The eccentric is fixed slightly forward of the main wheel centre. |
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Turner was an intensely private, eccentric and reclusive man. |
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Cavendish's religious views were also considered eccentric for his time. |
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Cavendish was taciturn and solitary and regarded by many as eccentric. |
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In 1852, Louis Antoine Jullien the French eccentric composer of light music and conductor presented an opera of his own composition, Pietro il Grande. |
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The eccentric couple ask the family over, but with the kids in bed the clock strikes midnight and it's clear they want their own special kind of playdate. |
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This must be a place where miracles occur, as eccentric greaseballs make mistakes like this each week yet get back to operate without so much as a slap on the stethoscope. |
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Anecdotes, memories, funny episodes are strung in a rough timeline, with more emphasis on eccentric characters and lovely scenery than on factual accuracy. |
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Architecture of myocardial cells in human cardiac ventricles with concentric and eccentric hypertrophy as demonstrated by quantitative scanning electron microscopy. |
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The Holmesian signs of detection and the numerological triangles in Until Before After are part of an integral structure and not just an eccentric patterning. |
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The Preston-Child collaboration has produced many entertaining escapist thrillers, most notably those that feature the brilliant and eccentric FBI agent, Aloysius Pendergast. |
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Complicating the adventure is an eccentric, delicacy dependent cryptozoologist named Wesley whose chief ambition is to trap a Sasquatch and pretend to rescue Evan. |
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Dalton PA, Stokes MJ Acoustic myography reflects force changes during dynamic concentric and eccentric contractions of the human biceps brachii muscle. |
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Eccentric contractions generally develop greater muscle tension than both isometric and concentric contractions. |
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Eccentric flints show a great variety of forms, such as crescents, crosses, snakes, and scorpions. |
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Eccentric that I am, my Yeatsian reflection was sparked by a single word, one that I had never encountered. |
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Eccentric flints are among the finest lithic artefacts produced by the ancient Maya. |
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Eccentric musicians draw Talmudic distinctions between obscure recordings. |
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Good Weave certified, notNeutral's Eccentric design was partly conceived as a metaphor for a basket, with the banding and radiating linear elements evoking the basket weave. |
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Eccentric first-year molt patterns in certain tyrannid flycatchers. |
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Eccentric scientist Rick Marshall goes into a downward spiral after his theories about interdimensional travel are ridiculed by his fellow boffins. |
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