peculiar quality

collocation in English

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peculiar
adjective
uk
/pɪˈkjuː.li.ər/us
/pɪˈkjuːl.jɚ/
unusual and strange, sometimes in an ...
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quality
noun
uk
/ˈkwɒl.ə.ti/us
/ˈkwɑː.lə.t̬i/
how good or bad ...
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(Definition ofpeculiarandqualityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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We can give to the world films of apeculiarqualityand of an intellectual quality which no other nation can give.
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What is it that happens at a boarding school which gives thispeculiarquality?
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We are looked upon in the gathering of nations as possessing thispeculiarqualityof "guts".
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Anotherpeculiarqualityof this drug is to produce a strange and extreme degree of physical depression.
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It is because of the existence of thispeculiarqualitythat penicillin must be safeguarded by this method of control in its administration to the individual.
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I think it would be a misfortune if we were to speak of unrest as apeculiarqualityor attribute of labour at the present time.
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Her voice had assumed apeculiarquality(like a shrill whisper) and she was obviously profoundly damaged by her experience.
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This intuition is the poet'speculiarqualityin that it enables him to discover analogies which, hidden to reason, are yet the essentials of art.
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The critical question to be considered was whether the chalk on the site had peculiar qualities not to be found in chalk elsewhere.
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It is obvious that to command a force like that requires peculiar qualities in the man at the head of them.
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Those who are fortunately placed—fortunately placed rather than with peculiar qualities of excellence in themselves—are able to save, but the common run of us are not.
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This took into account the peculiar qualities of holding swimming events.
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