1.   After that the shticks are pretty much pushed aside in favor of stories about his wives, his parents, English eccentrics and his really desperate battle with cancer.

2.   Along the way he meets New Age flakes, English eccentrics, movie stars, movie-star wannabes and gangsters.

3.   But apart from a few rich society figures and the ever-odd English eccentric, everyone else is screaming ooh-la-la and running to Gap.

4.   He was part cartoonish city boss, part English eccentric.

5.   It looked like the wardrobe an English eccentric may have collected from her ancestors.

6.   Miss Plowright conceded that she and her co-stars had played upper-class English eccentrics before.

7.   Colin Seymour may seem the classic English eccentric, a self-taught lawyer going to court to invoke a long-forgotten law to defend a hedge.