This meant imposing their system of beliefs, their organizational methods, and their political idiosyncrasies on the colonized groups as well developing new ones.
The book is too unfocused, heavily plotted and weighted down by the author's many contrivances, idiosyncrasies, indulgences and wearisome, not to mention unnecessarily topical, preoccupations.
She usually gets caught up in her boyfriends' quirks, her eccentric employers' unusual behaviors and idiosyncrasies, and the maladjustment of total strangers.
