Like most Murakami novels, "1Q84" is fundamentally a detective story, albeit a distinctly heterodox one.
He was given a new position, albeit a distinctly less important one, as deputy secretary of the Security Council.
Who can say for sure which of these paths Russia (already a democracy, albeit a distinctly curtailed one) and China will end up following?
The way ahead is composed of critical engagement with respect to the unrealised aspirations of the modern project – as was the case in the 1950's in Harvard, with the mobilisation of great intellectual resources, albeit their being distinctly slow and partial (Krieger and Saunders 2009).
"We knew we had to have a good defensive shape, but we also had to have a threat," said Hughton, and the manner in which the pacy Nathan Redmond, operating on the left of midfield, skinned Kompany and then Gaël Clichy in the first few minutes was distinctly promising, albeit the subsequent crosses were disappointing.
It's a measure of how far the company has come that it can now return to the work as part of a seven-hour cycle, albeit in partnership with the distinctly velvet environment of the West Yorkshire Playhouse.
Its heroine, Dominique, is a terminally bored 20-year-old with existentialist leanings, none the wiser than her predecessor, albeit with a charming (and distinctly French) sense of nonspecific doom.
As England prepare to take part in an authentically South American World Cup for the first time since Chile in 1962 – albeit with a couple of distinctly southern-flavoured Mexican affairs in between – it is worth reflecting that there are few footballing histories as nuanced or as quietly potent as England in the Americas.
The only performer truly to survive Hellman and Pendleton is Robin Leslie Brown, a distinctly serious actress with a sharp, albeit everyday look.
What is most scary about this excerpt is not the sheer disgust and contempt that leaps from it, but rather that it distinctly reminds me of some academic work on Hinduism, albeit in a less eloquent, more baldfaced form.
