eccentric

Ninety years after Ford tried to persuade skeptical reporters to eat soybean pie, his obsession with the crop looks less eccentric than prophetic.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026

Meanwhile, other browsers chitchat about cats, weird vintage finds and their eccentric animal obsessions from childhood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

The eccentric executive cast his criticism as friendly, invoking the French proverb "qui aime bien chatie bien" -- spare the rod, spoil the child.

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026

Feature film Madfabulous - which tells the story of an eccentric 19th Century Welsh aristocrat - leads the way at this year's Bafta Cymru awards with six nominations.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

“I have too much Charlie in me. She’s more outgoing than I am, and braver. She’s irresponsible and slightly eccentric, and she’s a very unpredictable cook. She’s my best friend.”

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer

The film spends significant time roasting inane eccentrics like Benji but not without explaining their place in the media’s modern ecosystem.

From Salon ● May 6, 2026

He takes his time absorbing every seemingly inconsequential detail as he becomes attached to the personalities of eccentrics on their self-assigned quests to accomplish unlikely goals.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026

In both “The Bob Newhart Show” and “Newhart,” as a comparatively sensible person beset by eccentrics, he could get a lot of mileage out of a simple “Why?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2024

In an era of plangent indie rock, they were the studied, intricate eccentrics.

From New York Times ● May 20, 2024

But his colleague from Georgia need not dally over the credentials of these pathetic eccentrics.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis