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  • n  a strange attitude or habit

  • The self-conscious quirkiness of a career cleaning up corpses could present a trap, but Jeffs (best known for the Plath biopic Sylvia) does her best to steer around it.
  • Google's brand is known for both its ambition and its quirkiness, and the company's logo "Do No Evil" seems to allude to the power it wields.
  • The IM IN UR FRIDGE lolcat, for example, is a nod to a screen shot from a video game, much circulated on the Web for its brainless quirkiness, in which one player says to another .
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  • '401[Gone]' review:
    '401[Gone]' review: The idea might provide some comfort to a modern Chinese American youth newly arrived in the Chinese Land of the Dead, but it's easy to see why it's put the age-old Goddess of Mercy in an eternally foul mood. Quirkiness only carries the tale so far in the Crowded Fire Theater world premiere that opened Monday at Thick House. Cowhig is a distinctively original writer with a ...
    June 12, 2013 - San Francisco Chronicle
  • '410[Gone]' original but remote
    '410[Gone]' original but remote The idea might provide some comfort to a modern Chinese American youth newly arrived in the Chinese Land of the Dead, but it's easy to see why it's put the age-old Goddess of Mercy in an eternally foul mood. Quirkiness only carries the tale so far in the Crowded Fire Theater world premiere that opened Monday at Thick House. Cowhig is a distinctively original ...
    June 12, 2013 - San Francisco Chronicle

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