Lurie was working on Byron at the time of his disgrace, and the irony is not particularly subtle that he comes to grief from an escapade that Byron would have thought distinctly timid.
Akka, a regular and knowledgeable contributor to the below-the-line life of the Guardian's classical reviews, also turned up on Andrew Clements' review of Donald Runnicles's (mis)handling of Strauss's Four Last Songs, which the reviewer thought "distinctly unradiant" (and Akka "a car crash").
Clearly, some essential prerequisites for development of multicellular organisms and cell differentiation originated earlier than previously thought, distinctly before the origin of the animal kingdom and choanoflagellates.
It might be thought distinctly strange to consider obtaining 'consent' or 'authorisation' from a person for an autopsy to be performed upon them at some unknown future time and mandating that such a decision would necessarily lead to an autopsy being performed, as an expression of the "primacy of autonomy of the individual", despite the objections of surviving family members.
Asymmetry and specialization of the brain's hemispheres were once thought be distinctly human traits, but primates and other animals possess them as well.
Quickly scanning the inside of the car, there was smoke coming from the dashboard vents and I momentarily thought about an explosion – but I distinctly thought that seemed unlikely, given that the car engine was lying in the grass 20 feet away.
The Conference on Inclusive Capitalism is the brainchild of the Henry Jackson Society (HJS), a little-known but influential British think tank with distinctly neoconservative and xenophobic leanings.
One last thought, though: seeing my taste profile made me think about the distinctly un-rock'n'roll issue of data portability.
For the week of July 4th, we asked writers to describe a person, object, or experience that they think captures a distinctly American spirit.
There are all sorts of things that people think of as "distinctly Belfast" – and most of them are about architecture, geography and, of course, history.
