The phrase "a distinctive sort of" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a particular type or category that has unique characteristics or qualities.
Example: "The artist is known for creating a distinctive sort of abstract art that challenges traditional perceptions."
Alternatives: "a unique kind of" or "a special type of".
Actually, it's a gem: gentle, eccentric, possessed of a distinctive sort of innocence – and also charming and funny.
In the final analysis, Connery's 007 is not very obviously in love with Tatiana (he doesn't even seem to fancy her that much) but Bond's glorious and radiant self-love more than makes up for it, and their marital status on the train in those later sequences gives this film a distinctive sort of maturity.
Language is related to knowledge in diverse ways, and to each there corresponds a distinctive sort of "return".
Influenced by Hutcheson and the British empiricist tradition in general, Kant understands judgments of taste to be founded on a distinctive sort of feeling, a disinterested pleasure.
When it is higher-order perceived it, too, will acquire a subjective aspect, being presented to me in a distinctive sort of way.
Some philosophers think that such laws underwrite a distinctive sort of modality: a proposition is nomically necessary just in case its falsity is incompatible with the laws of nature.
The essential point here is that when I sense or am appeared to silver-elliptical-ly, there need be nothing more going on than that I am in a certain distinctive sort of experiential state.
Confining the experience of change to momentary episodes of experiencing may have its advantages, but it also makes for difficulties of a distinctive sort.
But there's also a new and distinctive sort of operation that has become hard to miss: political news and advocacy pages made specifically for Facebook, uniquely positioned and cleverly engineered to reach audiences exclusively in the context of the news feed.
You never heard from them what it was like, being that distinctive sort of outsider, because you never spoke to them.
Francis Hutcheson follows Shaftesbury in his emphasis on the subject's aesthetic response, on the distinctive sort of pleasure that the beautiful elicits in us.
