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quirk (Accident), noun accidental occurrence, chance, circumstance, fate, fortuitous event, fortuity, freak, hap, inadvertence, luck, misadventure, mischance, mishap, nonintentional occurrence, turn, twist, undesigned occurrence, unforeseen event, unforeseen occurrence, unplanned happening, unpremeditation quirk (Idiosyncrasy), noun aberration, abnormality, anomaly, bizarreness, defiance of custom, deviation, divergence, eccentricity, exception, fancy, habit, idiocrasy, individuality, infringement of custom, kink, mannerism, nonconformity, oddity, particularity, peculiarity, queerness, singularity, strange behavior, strange occurrence, strangeness, twist, unconventionality, unorthodoxy, unusualness, vagary See also: compulsion, obsession, speciality, specialty How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Every five years, Supervisor Mike Antonovich gets his chance to be Los Angeles County mayor -- a notion generally written off as part of the quirkiness of L. Like The Royal Tenenbaums, Little Miss Sunshine dishes out a lot of quirkiness, but what it does with it is both funnier and more biting. Egan's picture books tend to be characterized as offbeat, and this one certainly qualifies, but here the quirkiness doesn't overwhelm a rewarding story of friendship, fulfilling one's potential, and discovering one's best self. |
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