From the start Mr. Polanski was a distinctive filmmaker with a penchant for extreme situations.
The parallels between both men are clear to see, right down to their tailored coats and penchant for distinctive scarves.
The feds believed it was the same guy due to his "signature," including a penchant for distinctive masks and headwear that led authorities to dub him the "Straw Hat Bandit," a nod to the hat he wore during the first robbery in his alleged spree.
They also indicate a penchant for a distinctive, high-energy form of wood grain.
Later exposure through galleries and critical praise revealed a distinctive abstract style and a penchant for telling fables.
For months before the arrest, the robber was called the Mad Hatter or the Hat Bandit because of his penchant for wearing distinctive headgear — baseball caps of blue and red, a fisherman's cap, a hat with a military insignia on it, a tight-fitting knit cap — which seemed to obscure his otherwise plain features.
Moved by the clique's passion for their music, support for one another, and do-for-self ethos, Dessa accepted an invitation to join the crew and in 2005 released her first album the False Hopes EP introducing listeners to her distinctive literary voice and uncanny penchant for storytelling.
Lundblad's joke--a wisecrack about her own penchant for stylish shoes--acknowledged the lab's distinctive composition at the time: Most of the people gathered around the table were women.
It jibes with an increasing, distinctive tone at the museum: solemn exaltation, which has come to outweigh a lingering penchant for over-thematized, natteringly educational curating.
But Mr. Agle said the city, which owns the parking structures adjacent to Santa Monica Place, was likely to retain one distinctive feature of the mall: a mesh sign, now obscured by ficus trees, that recalls Mr. Gehry's penchant early in his career for working with ordinary materials.
