Polly and I were clinging to that hypothesis as the most lenient way of accounting for your eccentricity.
If he were rather inclined to be lazy, liking better the fishing he had been born for than the farming he had not, and if he had a harmless eccentricity for doing fancy work, nobody save Miss Cornelia seemed to hold it against him.
He wasn't a sailor, or one might pardon his eccentricity of appearance; he must belong to the over-harbor clans.
A man who does that is always charged with eccentricity, inconsistency, and that kind of thing.
It was obvious that he had no social gifts, but these a man can do without; he had no eccentricity even, to take him out of the common run; he was just a good, dull, honest, plain man.
The time has passed when he was an object of ridicule, and it is no longer a mark of eccentricity to defend or of perversity to extol him.
These are real problems, because what makes cities great is the dynamism that derives from their particular cocktails of class, ethnicity, eccentricity and opportunity.
Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi, The Art & Science of Rational Eating, 1992 Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness.
