Sentence examples for distinctive notes from inspiring English sources

Avidly, the woman listened to the sombre, distinctive notes in a minor — "misty" — key.

Later Tokugawa poets also added distinctive notes of their own to the haiku.

Avidly, the woman listened to the sombre, distinctive notes in a minor—"misty"—key.

There is lucuma, an Andean valley fruit with distinctive notes of caramel (variously compared to cashew, maple and sweet potato).

Speaking less vigorously than of old but still with those incisive distinctive notes which found their glorious consummation in his Richard III, Laurence Olivier made the sort of welcoming speech which connoisseurs of theatrical politics will appreciate.

In part, this is because the setting in Mrs. Gardner's faux-Renaissance palazzo on the Fenway acts as a kind of sounding board, amplifying and reverberating sympathetically with the distinctive notes of this artist.

Mexican-born Juan Ruiz de Alarcón struck a distinctive note.

Sheila Hancock brings a distinctive note of silvery grace to the largely bedridden Edith in the second half.

Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Kennedy's special assistant, called those sentences "the distinctive note" of the inaugural.

It's the distinctive note in many Italian drinks, including their wines.

It was published in Milan and defied slender resources to strike a distinctive note in the country's public life.