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 two-time Oscar winner's upcoming film, A Visit To Grandpa's, follows a young boy who is sent to spend a summer with his eccentric grandfather on a Welsh farm, surprised by the adventures he finds.

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026

They seek help at a nearby castle and encounter the eccentric strangers who live there, holding a party.

From BBC • Mar. 9, 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

He was only a man who had meant well, who had been spurred along that course of thinking by an eccentric necromancer with a weakness for humanity.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White