By comparison, the brushstrokes of the great eccentrics of the 17th and 18th centuries look soft and tame.

Those notes documented Poirot's tastes and rituals, the things that make him "one of the great eccentrics."

He was also one of the great eccentrics.

"Professor" Bruce Lacey, born 1927, remains one of Britain's great eccentrics.

Millais had crossed the globe and known some of the great eccentrics of art, architecture, acting and adventure.

One of jazz's great eccentrics, Dorothy Donegan manages to crack most of the rules of classic jazz.

Twiggy, the model, described Mr. Parkinson as "one of the great eccentrics of the photographic world."

Routh is still notable as one of the great British eccentrics.

You used to have great eccentrics.

His musical innovation and outlandishness recall great eccentrics like George Clinton and Sun Ra.