Think of an eccentric muscle movement as gradually lowering that heavy object back down.
He finds a patron in an eccentric neighbor who lends him a cherished Tononi violin.
Why would anyone except an eccentric Howard Hughes want to own an airline, especially USAirways?
Dogu Perincek, an eccentric Turkish leftist, was briefly detained in Switzerland on July 23rd.
Khan Academy started out as a way for an eccentric former engineer to tutor his cousin remotely.
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She aims to play an eccentric crossword puzzle fan who becomes fixated on a cameraman for CNN.
An eccentric woman arrives in a small town, rents an old house and opens a cram school.
Sunset Rubdown strives for greatness, and on the way there, it crafts an eccentric, surprisingly rich musical panorama.
In Kinsale, I know an eccentric publican with an intimate and exquisite bar below his own living quarters.
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Like many investigative reporters, he works odd hours and has a reputation as an eccentric, if interesting, loner.
An eccentric lord and avant-garde composer has been commemorated with a blue plaque.
Stereotypical examples would be a starving artist or an eccentric research scientist.
Yet his reputation as an eccentric recluse has ensured his lasting fame.
Instead, he embarked on a biography of an eccentric literary genius, H.
It would be easy to write Robert Bigelow off as an eccentric.
Francis accepted all this serenely, and the qualities that at the beginning had marked him as an eccentric eventually made him seem holy.
The film depicts Rodriguez as an eccentric fellow whose early career was marred in part by performances where he played with his back to the audience.
Burr thinks he's found the man who has solved the mystery: Luca Turin , an eccentric scientist whose nose has the olfactory equivalent of perfect pitch.
And it is only five years since Yahoo started out as an eccentric list of cool sites online, compiled by Stanford classmates Jerry Yang and David Filo.
Most companies approach the prospect of a dialogue with remuneration governance professionals as if they were about to waste precious time with an eccentric grandmother having afternoon tea.
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With a little more encouragement, what once was an eccentric way to roof your home could soon become the universal standard, turning our cities into lush, green metropolises.
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Trevorrow's independent comedy, Safety Not Guaranteed, featuring Mark Duplass as an eccentric inventor who is seeking to travel back in time, was shown at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.
His 2007 breakout album, "Life in Cartoon Motion, " introduced him as an eccentric, wild-haired singer with a falsetto voice that might've seemed out of place on the modern pop scene.
From Plovdiv, take the E85 back road 108km straight north to Kazanlak, an eccentric, agricultural destination where an interesting mix of Bulgarians, Roma and ethnic Turks congregate in the town's gregarious open market.
She's Rachel Trachtenburg, and at age nine, she's the youngest member of the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, an eccentric act that's become one of the most talked-about bands in Manhattan and its environs.
Until Europe decisively builds a firewall for its currency, and the U.S. definitively grasps its unsustainable economic platform of two vast deficits, the world economy will remain on an eccentric, out of control course.
Among his duties on "All Things Considered" was to come up with the musical interludes used between stories that enable a host to shift seamlessly from, say, a battleground report to a profile of an eccentric sculptor.
This is an eccentric sort of protein which carries infections (admittedly a most un-proteinlike thing to do) and in whose existence some scientists still refuse to believe, even though it has already earned its discoverer a Nobel prize.
In their paper, the co-authors argue that gravitational tidal heating caused by the gravitational friction of an earth-like exo-moon on an eccentric orbit around a Jupiter-like planet lying at a Jupiter-like distance from its parent star, could, in fact, create habitable conditions.
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