Sentence examples for a distinguished category from inspiring English sources

Yet many of Munro's readers had sadly concluded that she was not, somehow, the kind of writer that the Nobel committee seemed to like; I had decided that she would join the list of noble non-Nobelists, a distinguished category that includes Tolstoy, Nabokov, Borges, Hrabal, Sebald, Bernhard, Ingmar Bergman — and Chekhov, as it happens.

Bayard was a member of a distinguished family.

Françoise Cachin was born on May 8 , 1936 into a distinguished family.

Arcimboldi grew up in a distinguished family.

However, the ERPs suggested that participants' early visual potentials (160 200 ms), often associated with prototype abstraction/application, distinguished category members from non-members in both the Pre-exposed Recognition and Categorisation groups.

Indeed the ERP data from our experiment demonstrated that the early visual evoked response that distinguished category members and non-members was modulated by whether participants had been asked to categorise or recognise them, and, although not to the same extent, by whether participants had previously been exposed to those items.

Alvear belonged to a distinguished Argentine family.

Sharif comes from a distinguished military family.

The Swintons are a distinguished old Scottish family.

"We're putting fracking in the same category as smoking," said Sandra Steingraber, a distinguished scholar in residence in environmental studies at Ithaca College who leads the coalition New Yorkers Against Fracking.

Lord Crawford was a distinguished representative of a very ancient family.