Jerusha couldn't recognize the peculiar urgency in his tone.

So it is no surprise that studies of utopia have recently taken on a peculiar urgency.

Now he understood that peculiar urgency he had sensed in the hatchlings' eyes.

The love of her life was a Czech Jewish poet and polymath called Franz Steiner (he knew well over two dozen languages, according to Conradi), whose heart condition gave peculiar urgency to their rare lovemaking.

Seek out those little, maybe overlooked gems that speak to you with the quiet urgency peculiar to this intimate medium.

Doove, too, was fretting, spurred by Emmett's peculiar urgency.

There is a peculiar urgency that radiates from Kahlo's self-portraits.

Ms. Zelizer dwells on the peculiar urgency with which many poor families put aside money for funeral expenses.

Its voice held the same note of peculiar urgency as had the female figure's, a moment ago.

The debate assumes peculiar urgency in a land where, in the early 1200's, St. Francis of Assisi is supposed to have established the first figurative representation of Jesus' Nativity in the central Italian hamlet of Greccio.