It's not that irresistibly cute little French car with the cheeky face, the one with those distinctive half-moon headlamps for eyes.
It was a bold start, showcasing not just the Italianate lyric ring he commands so naturally, but more particularly his unmatched darker lower registers and the distinctive half-voice that few can rival.
Mortimer, by contrast, will begin a sentence ("I think that... ..) and then pause, leaving a silence in which you can sense her editing her words in her head, before committing them concisely to the tape recorder in that distinctive half-rasping, half-squeaky voice.
By Adam Gopnik Runyon's distinctive idiom — half overheard, half cooked up — captured a slang that yearned to be fancy, like two-tone shoes.
Perkins skipped out of Springhill open prison in 1995 and, despite police appeals for a man with "blue eyes and distinctive tattoos" – roughly half the expat English population of the Costa del Sol – remained on the run.
Only late in his career did he create for someone else a town house of distinctive character, the half-timbered double-lot building at 225 East 49th Street.
Town was not simply in Midtown, it seemed to be defining a new Midtown cuisine, a little understated, but each dish made distinctive with a half-twist, an unexpected visual paint stroke, or both, like the roasted skate served with three sorbet-shaped quenelles: pea-peppermint, apple-miso, and eggplant with hazelnut oil and quatre-épices.
The company has survived tectonic shifts over the past century and a half, sending distinctive performers and rule-breaking choreographers out into the world armed with a sturdy root aesthetic and elements of style that have remained freshly alive and nourishing throughout their lives.
The shirt was split into two distinctive, striped panels; one half with thin red and white stripes, the other with stripes in darker shades of red.
Embroidery work in the Kutch is a mélange of a half-dozen distinctive styles with different combinations of stitches, patterns and colors, reflecting the heritage of the various ethnic and religious groups that migrated to the Kutch from present-day Pakistan, Afghanistan, Russia, Turkey and Iran.
The Maestro left a half century of distinctive work for the trumpeter and his expert Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra ensemble to explore.
