All 5 Uses of
eccentric
in
Swann's Way
- Although a far younger man, M. Swann was very much attached to my grandfather, who had been an intimate friend, in his time, of Swann's father, an excellent but an eccentric man in whom the least little thing would, it seemed, often check the flow of his spirits and divert the current of his thoughts.†
Chpt 1
- These little eccentricities on my grandfather's part implied no ill-will whatsoever towards my friends.†
Chpt 2
- …to the mistake he was making in seeking to establish a similarity by an exact and therefore lifeless copy of mere outward forms—a middle-aged lady in a small country town, by doing no more than yield whole-hearted obedience to her own irresistible eccentricities, and to a spirit of mischief engendered by the utter idleness of her existence, could see, without ever having given a thought to Louis XIV, the most trivial occupations of her daily life, her morning toilet, her luncheon, her…†
Chpt 2
- …my grandfather would have included my aunt Leonie, who present without modification, year after year, the spectacle of their odd and unaccountable habits, which they always imagine themselves to be on the point of shaking off, but which they always retain to the end; caught in the treadmill of their own maladies and eccentricities, their futile endeavours to escape serve only to actuate its mechanism, to keep in motion the clockwork of their strange, ineluctable, fatal daily round.†
Chpt 2
- M. de Charlus was somewhat inclined to eccentricity,
Chpt 3 *eccentricity = unconventional or strange behavior
Definition:
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(eccentric) unconventional or strange; or a person with such traits