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

Then, just after the calamity of World War II, in a remote corner of eastern France, he moved Modernism’s goal posts with a single, eccentric, transcendent project.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 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

But Corkers, an eccentric old bachelor, was neither dull nor colourless.

From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl