Peculiarity

I remember the time when the Germans called the Euro "Esperantogeld" to mean that it would never happen. Of course, none of the people who said that would admit it today. It's the peculiarity of paradigms to seem so natural that one cannot imagine having lived in a different paradigm, even an opposite one, in the past.

I noticed a peculiarity.

"By the way," I asked suddenly, stopping and turning upon Stamford, "how the deuce did he know that I had come from Afghanistan?" My companion smiled an enigmatical smile. "That's just his little peculiarity," he said. " A good many people have wanted to know how he finds things out."

In general the physical and mental form of conscious beings is an expression of the character of the planet on which they live. On certain very large and aqueous planets, for instance, we found that civilization had been achieved by marine organisms. On these huge globes no land-dwellers as large as a man could possibly thrive, for gravitation would have nailed them to the ground. But in the water there was no such limitation to bulk. One peculiarity of these big worlds was that, owing to the crushing action of gravitation, there were seldom any great elevations and depressions in their surface. Thus they were usually covered by a shallow ocean, broken here and there by archipelagos of small, low islands.

The "en passant" capture is a peculiarity of the pawn movement. No other chess piece can do anything like that.

I have this peculiarity: I always spoil everything.

Not all people understood Yuri's peculiarity.

An interesting peculiarity of this plant is that it cannot pollenize itself, but is obliged to depend for its perpetuity upon a little moth whose sole aim in life seems to be to perform the work of pollenizing this plant.

The peculiarity of meeting six people on a usually deserted trail only struck me later on.

“'There is always a moment when the familiar becomes the strange,'” Cora recited, as she stood looking around at the bustling open docking area of Tamayo Point. “'Look at your own hand and you will eventually notice the variation of textures, the growth of nails and the fade of scars, the peculiarity of having five fingers instead of three.'”