Anabasis, which probably initially circulated pseudonymously (under the name Themistogenes of Syracuse), tells the story of the Ten Thousand in a distinctive version, one in which Xenophon himself plays a central role in Books III VII.
The series is sentimental in a sleek way, and there are surface glints of humor in the script, but mostly, "Brian" is a blander, less distinctive version of "Thirtysomething".
Walter Meierjohann, artistic director for theatre at the new Manchester arts centre, Home, presents a visually lush and distinctive version of Ödön von Horváth's Kasimir and Karoline, a play originally set in 1929 at a German beer festival after the Wall Street crash.
Seal sometimes sounded like a less adventurous, less distinctive version of Sting.
You won't want to miss the account of his Aunt Tzipi escaping Nazis in Shanghai: she meets a chef with his own distinctive version of Peking duck, the preparation of which requires touching a virgin's flesh "all over".
Together they give a good sense of his distinctive version of Pop: obstreperous, messy and rude, the equivalent of grimy mitts and a belch in MoMA's clean white halls.
She does it through the medium of dance – dread words in any other context, but here meaning an energetic rendition of Beyoncé's distinctive version of twerking.
The issues between us are how and whether we can move further toward these objectives under our political system and its distinctive version of democracy.
Having stamped his distinctive version of that conflict on the popular imagination, he could have been forgiven for using it as his main setting for the rest of his writing life, as many of his readers might have preferred.
Though Fichte's proposal never caught on as a general name for what was once called "philosophy," it did become the universally acknowledged name for his own distinctive version of transcendental idealism.
