kookiness

I stood there for a second, trying to comprehend just the general kookiness of the whole situation.

"Dead on the Money" virtually wallows in its own kookiness.

The kookiness has to be pitched just right.

The intended mood is one of corrupted elegance, rather than morbid kookiness.

They started with pushcarts or a single family store, which, through sheer discipline and touches of kookiness, sometimes became an empire.

The men are totally without social graces and the women might lead to the final banishment of the word kookiness from one's lexicon.

But it's her own kookiness that haunts her mild, married office mate, George, like an old song.

That peculiar admonition had always seemed to be of a piece with old Sinsemilla's general kookiness.

There's heart in the kookiness.

The wide-eyed vulnerability, the catch in the voice, the dogged kookiness are all too familiar knockoffs on an established style.

Straining for genial kookiness, the artifacts include a barber's chair, a pinball machine and a fern growing out of a fireplace.

An anything-goes kookiness pervades the first half, but the film then takes a trite turn that only serves to highlight its unlikely premise."

In popular usage, eccentricity (also called quirkiness or kookiness) refers to unusual or odd behavior on the part of an individual.

His roles are often positions of authority, such as managers, principals, or police officers, but many of these characters also share a certain kookiness and incompetence.

And she's either utterly charming and beguiling, or a teeny bit annoying, depending on where you stand on that kind of kookiness.

I think that's going to be my main problem with the show, especially as the levels of kookiness will probably go up and down randomly on a weekly basis.

Shepherd's lovely, high-spirited pictures add a kookiness to MacLachlan's story that both readers and listeners will appreciate.

He even goes so far as to suggest that Mr. LaRouche's kookiness is intentional, a means of disarming his critics.

Conjuring the kookiness of a parlor gathering, Kate played piano and sometimes banjo, and Anna the accordion and guitar.

"Austin Powers"-inspired kookiness as players become Kurt Hectic, a heroic custodian who fights alien invaders.

Ms. MacLaine, who has written seven books about reincarnation and psychic communication, has made it very clear that she does not want to be identified with kookiness.

In spite of her kookiness, her impulsiveness, her boy craziness, and her showy clothes, she wanted to be self-reliant, happy, and sane.

For example, Lyell D. Henry, Jr. wrote that "'fringe science' [is] a term also suggesting kookiness."

Shettles was not named in the lawsuit, but everything about him - his competence, his ethics, his record keeping, his kookiness - was aired at trial.

For other couples, being married on a Ferris wheel would be a bit of staged kookiness designed with one end: forevermore to have a wedding story to trump all others.