A distinct note of resignation has crept into conversations.
Lending to buy cars has also been heading upward, though with a distinct note of caution.
Even now, though, he says with a distinct note of self-satisfaction, there is sufficient scope for a prime minister to lead.
The work's Beuysian array of raw material played into minimalist currents in the art world, and the Bloomingdale's-style display of derivative products (lipsticks made of the lard, for example), added a distinct note of feminist wit.
But because a cleanup decision on the Hudson has been delayed so many times, some people also struck a distinct note of caution that their fight for the river was not over yet.
The words to which kids doze off sink into them with invisible permanence – and there's a distinct note of Brave New World hypnopaedia about Mommy Rabbit's inexorable drone.
Byatt sounds a polite but distinct note of triumphalism over the way it's beginning to seem, when it comes to the novel, that the past shall be first: "My sister... believes passionately that it is the novelist's duty to write about the present, to confront an age which is 'ugly, incomprehensible and subject to rapid mutations.'..
The decision to frame Saxberger's "short, troublesome journey" in such terms lends the satire a distinct note of universality, a hint that, literary fame being what it is, any writer could fall prey to similar follies, a confounding interplay of the real and the imaginary.
The next morning, Montenegrin television repeatedly showed Milo Djukanovic, the prime minister, celebrating with champagne.And yet, as the festivities died down, a distinct note of complaint started to be heard and not just from those who had voted to keep the union with Serbia.
