Earlier in the week — an evening in late spring — I had landed in Quito, Ecuador's capital, which sprawls at 9,350 feet along the base of an active volcano in a distinctive atmosphere of thin air and diesel fumes that aroused dormant memories of the semester I had spent there during college.
"They want to keep a special distinctive air about them".
So what is it that gives Scappy's its distinctive air?
Most, however, including landscapes and nude studies, are disappointingly sketchy and, even if related to famous paintings, are missing Balthus's distinctive air of erotic suspense.
While these characteristics never occur all together in the same building, and none are unique to Sicilian Baroque, it is the coupling together which gives the Sicilian Baroque its distinctive air.
The analysis shows that each air mass has its own distinctive air quality and meteorological features.
In the latter two, the star was Henry Fonda, an actor who, like McCarthy, had a distinctive voice, an air of integrity and intelligence and a natural inclination to authoritarian roles.
They give the town a cosmopolitan air and a distinctive appearance, the latter because superstition holds that to assure safe passage, sailors must paint the names of their boats on the docks of Horta.
