Examples of quirky

• Devices of reflection and re-scaling are extracted from an architectural context and employed with quirky irreverence in this exhibition of models, drawings and ready-mades.

• It was a somewhat quirky period-piece, being both ostensibly radical and a confidently psychologistic study.

• Before that time, spatial prepositions and particles were often felt too quirky and their meanings too idiomatic for systematic linguistic study.

• The function of this eccentric repetition is less formal than dramatic, for the quirky music serves the text, and more specifically, portrays a character.

• Her ' ethnography ', indeed, is based on her literary material and a patchy, often quirky, selection of references to professionally collected ethnography.

• It suffers from lack of organisation, poor editing, and, above all, a rather quirky understanding of geology and geological processes.

• Students may be put off by the quirky language which riddles the introduction and conclusion.

• How did it differ from the quirky or unreasonable ways of thinking of 'normal' people?