"peculiar" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- She looked on, with peculiar detachment.
- He felt a peculiar detachment as he reached back over his shoulder and drew his sword.
- The name reminded me of that, but the peculiar detachment of shock prevented the reminder from disturbing me in the slightest.
- He felt a peculiar detachment as he stared across the street at the pair of church soldiers standing guard at the cathedral door.
- Possibly may be said to have view of society which holds human struggle to be series of games; peculiar quasiscientific detachment found also in certain technological circles.
- Stern, who had accepted his daughter's caution to say nothing, sat back with peculiar detachment.
- "Dead men," she said with peculiar detachment.
- It was inevitable, he realized with a peculiar detachment.
- Marine infantry units have traditionally been nonpolitical, to the point of stubbornly embracing a peculiar detachment from policy currents at home.
- Derricotte studies the peculiar detachment of certain black elders who sing viciousness into children's ears, possibly in a spirit of perverse, angry protectiveness.
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