Sentence examples for a nice distinction from inspiring English sources
It is a nice distinction for Paige, a Hall of Famer whose best years were spent in the Negro leagues.
He said you should never drink while you're writing, but it's O.K. to write while you're drinking, a nice distinction.
(Though those two words are often taken to be synonyms, dominant means "controlling"; predominant means "most influential at the moment". That was a nice distinction; prefixes count).
It's a nice distinction, often ignored by good writers but worth preserving, remembering Justice Louis Brandeis's defense of privacy as "the right to be let alone".
The O.E.D.'s definition makes a nice distinction between senses -- the land which is one's home or where one's home is" -- before settling on the more general "one's native land".
In his Webster's Dictionary of English Usage, E. Ward Gilman adds a nice distinction: "To say that you 'visited with' someone usually implies not only that you conversed, but that you went a bit out of your way for the sake of some friendly talk".
Political usage in the recent campaign, however, vitiated the nice distinction between the simultaneous general release and the calibrated rollout.
Ms. Schäfer went on to sing Mozart's concert scena "Ah, lo previdi!" with nice distinction of words in the recitatives and expressive phrasing in the arias.
The Department of Justice (DoJ) and the Securities and Exchange Commission SECC) are getting unprecedented co-operation from their Swiss counterparts, with the nice distinction that the Swiss will help in cases of tax fraud but not tax evasion.
But all human transactions are founded on such nice distinctions.
