Sentence examples similar to a distinguished breed from inspiring English sources

I am Misha Borisovich Vainberg, of St .Petersburg, Russia, age thirty, a grossly overweight man with small, deep-set blue eyes, a pretty Jewish beak that brings to mind the most distinguished breed of parrot, and lips so delicate you would want to wipe them with the naked back of your hand.

"The breed of the hesitant and the weak...of those...who believe in telling the truth but rather than tell a distinguished painter that his paintings are daubs will praise him politely," he wrote, "this breed of the inconsistent is still one of the main hopes for the continued survival of the human race".

A distinguished fiction writer.

A distinguished NYC attorney.

This was a distinguished performance.

Happer is a distinguished academic".

This is a distinguished opposition.

The tactic has a distinguished revolutionary pedigree.

Alvear belonged to a distinguished Argentine family.

It gave Stravinsky a distinguished genealogy.

Lawrence was also a distinguished connoisseur.