Instead, he encountered each film as a distinctive sensory occasion, as evidence of the teeming life of a culture inspecting and amusing itself at once, and he reported what he met in a language that developed into an instrument of rare poetic and humorous impact.
While most of us know her as that unique creative spirit who lent her distinctive voice to occasions both great (presidential inaugurations) and small (community book readings), an examination of her extraordinary life reveals a broad range of pursuits and professions -- a true artist, educator and activist.
The main focus of objection to Austin here isn't the claim that "I know that such-and-such" can, on occasion, serve distinctive performative functions.
Turning his back on London and on fashion, Hyatt produced distinctive, richly coloured paintings occasioned by events that he called "meetings on the moor" – the movement of a distant figure through a bright field of hay or the sudden appearance of a kestrel against the sunset.
One of my favorite people to receive a note from has an assortment of distinctive note cards for different occasions.
However, though Hutcheson understands beauty to be an idea in us, he takes this idea to be "excited" or "occasioned" in us by distinctive objective qualities, in particular by objects that display "uniformity amidst variety" (ibid., Section II, Article III).
Western Union improved on the idea by creating distinctive telegrams for sending money for special occasions, while greeting card companies started selling decorative money holders for birthdays and holidays.
Yet this thought requires the possession of a distinctive concept of being bad whose application, on occasion, though lacking the power to determine an ethical decision, remains obstinately significant and inexpungible.
The Canadian Red Ensign had been unofficially used since the 1890s and was approved by a 1945 Order in Council for use "wherever place or occasion may make it desirable to fly a distinctive Canadian flag".
On occasion, he said, women shopping in the store would hear her distinctive voice coming from one of the aisles.
As always, Padmore's minute focus on the text made his account compelling, and his distinctive tone colours unerringly matched the piece's emotional depth; but on this occasion, the top of his voice sounded constricted.
