A browsing reader will find a diverting or distinctive phrase on every page, but one who devours it from beginning to end will also get a sweeping history of six decades of 20th-century sports.
As a simple yet highly distinctive phrase with the potential to co-opt other cultural reference points, it got social media going, drawing comedy connections with everyone from Aunt Becky from 90s sitcom Full House to a 2012 meme that had recast Taylor Swift as a deceased marijuana snorter named Becky.
A trademark is a distinctive word, phrase, logo, graphic symbol, or other device that is used to identify the source of a product or service and to distinguish it from competitors.
It is hard to sustain interest during the work's almost 40-minute span, although Mr. Zacharias held a listener's attention with his distinctive phrasing and accents.
Classic retrieval techniques (e.g. Bag-of-Words and topic models) don't work well, so we developed a pipeline to associate sections with distinctive phrases.
On these two tracks in particular, Tilston imitates Mitchell's distinctive phrasing to such an outrageous degree that homage becomes cheap impression.
In particular, they looked for two distinctive phrases that emerged at specific times: "Comet Ison" (the name of a comet discovered in September 2012) and "Pope Francis" (the name taken by Jorge Mario Bergoglio when he became pope in March 2013).
In the screenplay, all of King's fabulously distinctive phrases had to be unpicked and convincingly respun.
Foster, though, was a professor of literature, not a linguist; he was not trained to use the forensic methods that Shuy had mastered, such as listening for unconscious semantic patterns and looking for distinctive phrases or unusual colloquialisms.
Dr. Conrad noted that Mozart used distinctive phrases that are fairly short, often only four or even two measures long, and then repeated these phrases to build larger sections.
