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idiosyncratic

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Idiosyncratic (adj) means Typical of one particular person, and often a bit unusual or odd.

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Typical of one particular person, and often a bit unusual or odd.

"British Director Ronald Eyre kept the action crisp; he was correctly content to execute the composer's wishes, rather than impose a fashionably idiosyncratic view of his own." — Michael Walsh, Music: A Fresh Falstaff in Los Angeles (1982)

"The name “Quentin” clearly operates as a lucky charm if you’re an idiosyncratic film-maker, especially if you deal with sudden death, craziness and Z-movie Americana." — Jonathan Romney, ‘I want to make people laugh’: Quentin Dupieux, the fun auteur of French cinema (2021)

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