"distinctive ability" is an acceptable phrase in written English.
You can use it any time you want to refer to a special skill or talent that someone or something has. For example, "He has a distinctive ability to create music which sets him apart from other composers."
Larry Coker, Miami's first-year head coach, said he had long been convinced that Buchanon has distinctive ability.
But he remains a master of storytelling, with a distinctive ability to ally the personal to the political.
Berry, a man with the distinctive ability to pelvic-thrust with his larynx, is no stranger to the voiceover himself.
His distinctive ability to blend Italian film soundtracks, garage fuzz, krautrock and punk and translate them into a hip-hop context is very cool.
The role came to define her distinctive ability to combine precision with extreme speed and uninhibited joy, and Ms. Ashley performed it until her long career ended in 1997.
It's no coincidence that Cage starred in these minor masterpieces, doing so with that distinctive ability to perform with obvious, playful knowingness, yet without madly winking at his audience to prove that he's above all this, really.
His distinctive abilities enable him to change the nature of a game and the state of a franchise, particularly for an undersized club like the Knicks.
A minimal but clever class system – there are just three, Scout, Assault and Support, with distinctive abilities – encourages you take a rounded approach; just camping and meleeing won't pay dividends, for example.
Judy doesn't seem to have a better mind or more distinctive abilities or talents than the average young woman — she is the average young woman, but one who radiates a powerful, iridescent allure when she's dressed the right way and made up the right way and when the light and Scotty's eye (or the camera-eye) catch her the right way.
And now it's been sequenced for the first time, providing clues to the creature's distinctive abilities.
The distinctive human ability to plan (the word itself is derived from a term of geography, the Latin for "plain") stumbles as well when the maps are lost.
