The phrase "a distinct turn" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a noticeable change in direction, opinion, or approach in a discussion or narrative.
Example: "The novel takes a distinct turn in the second half, revealing the protagonist's hidden motivations."
Alternatives: "a clear shift" or "a noticeable change".
Meanwhile, Val takes a distinct turn for the Bond villain as the story proceeds.
Yesterday the disease took a distinct turn for the worse, and by five in the evening it was known that the Emperor was sinking rapidly.
But with the end of apartheid in South Africa in the early 1990's, his fiction took a distinct turn, in some cases becoming more abstract and willfully literary, in others straining for topical relevance.
With the establishment of the Mamlūk sultanate, however, it is generally agreed that the lot of the Christians, both in Egypt and in Syria, took a distinct turn for the worse.
But the program's momentum took a distinct turn Tuesday morning when Gunner Kiel, considered by many the country's top quarterback recruit, switched his commitment to Notre Dame from Louisiana State.
Plans for the new exercises over the coming weeks and months have broad support among Chinese military and civilian officials and represent a distinct turn away from a resumption of dialogue with Taiwan, which China believes is forsaking its adherence to the principle of "one China" and pursuing world recognition as an independent nation.
If I really hate a movie I'll search for someone who agrees with me and put it in a really distinct turn of phrase.
Consumer sentiment has taken a distinct negative turn in recent months.
But things have clearly taken a distinct downward turn in the meantime, and Downey Jr's face is sadder than that of a small boy who's just been told Christmas is cancelled.
A highly selective two-photon fluorescent probe (PyCM-1) for Au3 + was developed with distinct "turn on" fluorescence response, low detection limit (22 nM) and large two-photon absorption cross-sections (696 GM at 860 nm).
Baseball, already the sacrament of the tabloids, was where he made his first mark, and where he seems to have made his first distinct turn: he had come to New York idolizing the great and virtuous Giants pitcher Christy Mathewson, whom he had been writing about back in Colorado for years, sight unseen.
