The result was very distinguished, but perhaps not terribly sexy – John Betjeman, Laurie Lee, V.S. Pritchett turned out.
Auguries for the show were good from the beginning: indispensable loans were forthcoming worldwide and the curatorial team was very distinguished.
He was very distinguished looking and had a studied air of confidence, the posture and calm of someone used to giving orders and having them obeyed instantly.
I will always remember Sir Henry as his voice was very distinguished, the famous "splash it on" Brut adverts and his fight with the famous Cassius Clay.
And even though Albania may be a small country, it was very distinguished in Europe as being about the only country that had economic growth in 2009 and is growing again in 2010.
"History and romance are terms that have never been very clearly distinguished from each other," Brown began.
The archbishop said Knowles had been a "very distinguished" dean who had "done a great deal to strengthen the pastoral and intellectual life of the cathedral".
Anti-choice activists have, understandably, been very careful to distinguish people who think abortion should be punished with death from those who simply hold "conservative views".
Although the terminology varies (one can equivalently speak about reism, concretism or nominalism), two claims of any theory going against general (abstract) objects should be very sharply distinguished.
