Then his face adopted a distinguished expression and he spoke: "Whether you ever get to say that to that 13-year-old girl is as irrelevant as it is uncertain.
Her long, distinguished face is not so beautiful, and the contrast astonishes him.
That equine, distinguished face is far from the villainy of the new Star Wars movies.
One of the most distinguished faces of British coaching, Palmer is president of the Coaching Association, and also a professor of psychology and founder director of the Centre for Coaching and Centre for Stress Management.
"Nothing else in the financial universe has splattered so much egg on so many distinguished faces, except perhaps the technology-stock crash that started in 2000 and lasted more than two years," he writes.
The judges expressed their sympathy for "the late Sir Steuart Pringle, a distinguished officer, who faced an unwelcome challenge in his autumnal years, and also Simon Robert Pringle, the heir presumptive, who had grown up in the belief that his father was rightfully the 10th baronet and that he would in time succeed to the baronetcy".
A distinguished writer and editor faces the fact that at 59 he can no longer hack it in playground basketball; the loss, a real one, leads him into a loosely constructed array of memories, reveries and meditations, from his childhood in Pittsburgh to his concerns as a writer and teacher.
Bill Milkowski of Down Beat described him as "the portrait of studied concentration and pristine perfection: stiff backed and stern faced, with a distinguished air about him that some might misread as haughtiness.
*** EDITOR'S NOTE: Christopher Kennedy Lawford is a distinguished advocate for critical health issues facing our society today.
Mr. Cannadine has a long, serious face and large glasses that give him the look of a distinguished tropical bird.
