eccentric

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Behind the camera, Jacobs’ friend and occasional creative collaborator, Sofia Coppola, asks whether they’re favoring a serious look, or something more eccentric — in line with Jacobs’ reputation.

From Salon • Mar. 27, 2026

The “Satyagraha” and “Akhnaten” revivals have been the designed-to-dazzle inventions of quirky director Phelim McDermott, a co-founder of Impossible, an eccentric British theater company.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2026

These Celtics have an underdog’s mettle, imbued by their eccentric head coach and jiu-jitsu enthusiast Joe Mazzulla.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 2, 2026

"Gladys has surprised me because she's getting a lot of love back," she said of her Weapons character, an eccentric woman who turns up in a US town just before the local schoolchildren go missing.

From BBC • Mar. 2, 2026

And someone says that my Catholicism is a mere affectation, an attempt to play the Evelyn Waugh eccentric to a bland and vulgar secular age.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez