(1) Lofgren complains that " the crackpot outliers of two decades ago have become the vital centre today ".
(2) Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson , who is currently positioned second in the polls behind Trump, was given respectful time to explain the medical consensus dismissing what many see as crackpot theories about vaccines and autism – but was only pressed briefly on his own arguably equally crackpot assertion that any form of progressive taxation amounts to socialism and the US should opt for a biblical tithe system instead.
(3) Briefly imprisoned for his firebrand politicking, he later joined a group of exiles in Libya, where Muamar Gadafy was eagerly spreading his crackpot revolutionary ideas among West African dissidents.
(4) Among other pearls of crackpot bigot wisdom, he has allegedly claimed that "black tenants smell and attract vermin."
(5) Now it's time to get on with living, dreaming up more crackpot themes for his phone-in shows and having fun.
(6) At least then we can finally find out which of our crackpot theories is true.
(7) I wonder this often, when I see them rushing from one crackpot diet to another, from one celebrity "guru" to the next, from one fashion age limit to another.
(8) He described C4 as "the home of crackpot conspiracy theories", but said he would "aspire" to work there and there might be a vacancy as "the presenter is very ancient".
(9) Europe had little money to build with, yet in Germany, an increasingly victorious crackpot was handing over unlimited piles of cash to an unknown architect to make sandcastles with.
(10) Was he, asked the New York Times , "a crackpot or the American Tolstoy"?
(11) Gove had a crackpot idea that he and Leeming should appear together, both dressed as some kind of rat, and jump off a high diving board into a swimming pool, and he had offered me a bonus, out of his own pocket, if I could contrive a scenario – somehow related to the week’s news – that would convince the producers this would be a good idea.
(12) Gove had a crackpot idea that he and Leeming should appear together, dressed as rats, and jump from a high diving board I wondered how Leave could rationalise their blind stab in the dark and live with the untruths they had told.
(13) Passon has a pet theory – "it's so crackpot" – that there might be a genetic basis for the creativity and askance perspective often attributed to gay people throughout history.
(14) Anyone who catches this bug is compelled to visit County Clare in search of proof that real life in this quiet backwater is hilariously similar to the afore-not-mentioned series in all its crackpot, rustic eccentricity.
(15) And indeed it is, if your approach to food is completely crackpot served up with a hefty side of overprivilege.
(16) And we know how we’d rather see it spent: not on bureaucracy or bloat or the latest crackpot government scheme, but on you, your family, your future.” Insisting his tax priority in the next parliament is a further uplift in the personal tax allowance and taking more people out of the top rate of tax by raising the threshold, he will say the choice at the election is clearer than ever.
(17) Most troublingly, his promise to create 20,000 extra school places by enabling parents, charities, religious groups and businesses to set up schools at the drop of hat could well mean that every crackpot fundamentalist group – from extreme Islamists to creationist Christians – will be setting up educational institutions.
(18) Is the rule based on some crackpot theory, such as that English should emulate Latin, or that the original meaning of a word is the only correct one?
(19) And I’m not going to respond to every single conspiracy theory that these crackpots online cook up.
(20) He accused him of wasting money on crackpot schemes, including a suggestion that the city could use inflatable dirigible balloons to rescue swimmers who got into difficulties.
Eccentric
Definition:
(a.) Deviating or departing from the center, or from the line of a circle; as, an eccentric or elliptical orbit; pertaining to deviation from the center or from true circular motion.
(a.) Not having the same center; -- said of circles, ellipses, spheres, etc., which, though coinciding, either in whole or in part, as to area or volume, have not the same center; -- opposed to concentric.
(a.) Pertaining to an eccentric; as, the eccentric rod in a steam engine.
(a.) Not coincident as to motive or end.
(a.) Deviating from stated methods, usual practice, or established forms or laws; deviating from an appointed sphere or way; departing from the usual course; irregular; anomalous; odd; as, eccentric conduct.
(n.) A circle not having the same center as another contained in some measure within the first.
(n.) One who, or that which, deviates from regularity; an anomalous or irregular person or thing.
(n.) In the Ptolemaic system, the supposed circular orbit of a planet about the earth, but with the earth not in its center.
(n.) A circle described about the center of an elliptical orbit, with half the major axis for radius.
(n.) A disk or wheel so arranged upon a shaft that the center of the wheel and that of the shaft do not coincide. It is used for operating valves in steam engines, and for other purposes. The motion derived is precisely that of a crank having the same throw.
Example Sentences:
(1) Periosteal chondroma is an uncommon benign cartilagenous lesion, and its importance lies primarily in its characteristic radiographic and pathologic appearance which should be of assistance in the differential diagnosis of eccentric lesions of bones.
(2) Adaptation at 10 deg eccentricity yielded slightly higher threshold elevations than for central vision.
(3) An in vitro, eccentric arterial stenosis model was created using 15 canine carotid arteries cannulated with silicone plugs containing special pressure-transducing catheters designed to measure pressure directly, within the stenosis.
(4) • Gaddafi's many eccentricities, including phobias about flying over water and staying above ground floor level.
(5) These data suggest that older adults experience greater muscle damage following eccentric exercise than young subjects, which may be due in part to the smaller muscle mass and lower VO2max seen in older men.
(6) Detection thresholds at 10 Hz and high grating contrasts were approximately 11-15 arcsec in the fovea and 37-47 arcsec at 30 degrees eccentricity.
(7) It could be said that Brown's methods were not eccentric but merely attuned to the demands of Eighties and Nineties culture.
(8) That detail is inspired by the eccentric Mancunian performer Frank Sidebottom – the film is co-written by the Guardian's Jon Ronson , a former member of Sidebottom's band – but Abrahamson insists the character stands in for all music's outsiders.
(9) The relationships between dioptric blur, pupil size, retinal eccentricity, and retinal sensitivity were investigated in the central 5 degrees of the visual field in 10 normal subjects using the Humphrey Field Analyzer.
(10) Some say Film Socialism is an eccentric masterpiece ; others that it's an eccentric mess.
(11) The neoplastic cells have large, single eccentric nucleus, resembling typical plasma cells.
(12) Our threshold vs ISI data can be adequately modeled on the basis of an intrinsic positional uncertainty, which increases with eccentricity, and additive and multiplicative sources of noise.
(13) The latter 7 cases had either a dislocation or an eccentration.
(14) The term Asperger's Syndrome (AS) refers to a clinical picture characterized by social isolation in combination with odd and eccentric behaviour.
(15) With calcium antagonists, a similar extent of dilation of normal coronary arteries and eccentric stenoses can be obtained.
(16) The size and the angular tilt of the dark crescent appearing in the subject's pupil are derived as a function of five variables: the ametropia of the eye (Dsph, Dcyl, axis), the eccentricity of the flash, e, and the distance of the camera from the subject's eye, dc.
(17) Eccentric catheter location had little effect on phantom or human arterial lumen shape or area when imaging was performed with optimized catheters.
(18) Accommodative microfluctuations were found to play a minor role in determining the magnitude of sensitivity out to an eccentricity of 5 degrees; between 5 degrees and 27.5 degrees, the effect of microfluctuations was masked by the mydriasis produced by the drugs used in the study.
(19) A sport-specific profile of eccentric and concentric enlargement has been documented in endurance and resistance athletes, respectively.
(20) Although containing no obviously extreme items, its cumulative effect may be used to assess the prevalence of bizarre and eccentric thought patterns in psychiatric patients, and as an estimate of psychotic risk in the general population.