eccentrics

How did a handful of eccentrics from the '30's, thinkers who were often amazed to learn of any other human being on earth who agreed with them, blossom into the scourge of the blogosphere?

The Triumph of Libertarianism: Brian Doherty's Radicals for Capitalism, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

TO COVER an elegant, black-tie Christmas party for Town and Country, New York writer John Kelso (John Cusack) finds himself knee deep in Southern eccentrics -- and embroiled in a murder case.

Southern Discomfort 2008

An 'now the main eccentrics start and quarrel with the sheaves;

Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910

You're one of those sort they call eccentrics, I judge.

Following the Equator, Part 2 Mark Twain 1872

You're one of those sort they call eccentrics, I judge.

Following the Equator Mark Twain 1872

The two first were themselves emphatically "eccentrics" -- one an apostle of dandyism (he actually wrote a book about Brummel, whom he had met early), a disdainful critic of rather untrustworthy vigour, and a stalwart reactionary to Catholicism and Royalism; the other a devotee of the exact opposite of dandyism, as the title of his best-known book, _Les

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889

This country has always had a soft spot for lovable eccentrics aka raving lunatics.

Not a very well planned walk 2008

"rugged individualists" (folks in lesser states call us ... er, them "eccentrics" -- and that's one of the nicer things they say).

Latest Articles 2009

In his swashbuckling sensibility, Jomon "eccentrics" pursuing "mysterious, quixotic dreams" made a "mad dash" across the Pacific in dugout canoes.

Books: Ice Age Swashbucklers? 2005

Breakthroughs in decipherment seem to require broad knowledge and lateral thinking, as well as a logical, linguistically trained mind -- and this combination is more often found in "eccentrics" than in conventional scholars.

Conversations: A Singularly Human Pursuit 2003