The phrase "as a different sort" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing something or someone that belongs to a different category or type than what has been previously mentioned.
Example: "She approached the problem as a different sort of challenge, one that required creative thinking rather than strict logic."
Alternatives: "as a different kind" or "as a distinct type".
"We like to think of them as a different sort of self-service experience".
For he sees himself as a different sort of peace-monger.
But now, leaders in Seattle are looking to the Bay Area as a different sort of model: a cautionary tale.
It's standard practice in jazz circles to refer to Fly as a different sort of saxophone trio.
In Mr. Millepied's "Without," a new ballet set to Chopin, Mr. Stearns and Ms. Boylston reappear as a different sort of centerpiece, this time dressed in brilliant red.
How does a marriage conducted within the laws of the state of New York count as a different sort of public stand, or a political act?
Of course, she worries about him; but she knows too, she says, that as well as being a different sort of personality from Kim, he has had a very different kind of upbringing.
For an athlete, the beard suggests a return to nature as well, to a different sort of battle to the feral ferocity of medieval or primitive men, or, at least, to the rugged outdoorsiness of nineteenth-century man in confrontation with the elements, both on and off the stubbly and rock-strewn sporting fields.
For an athlete, the beard suggests a return to nature as well, to a different sort of battle — to the feral ferocity of medieval or primitive men, or, at least, to the rugged outdoorsiness of nineteenth-century man in confrontation with the elements, both on and off the stubbly and rock-strewn sporting fields.
This dilemma – of strengthening mass connection simultaneous to acute disconnection – posits food as requiring a different sort of relationality with humans than what is required for the exchange of wireless information measured in bits.
In this case, best opinion plays only an extension-reflecting role, merely reflecting the independently determined extensions of the central predicates of D. Alternatively, we might try to explain the covariance of best opinion and fact by viewing best opinion as playing a different sort of role.
