A browsing reader will find a diverting or distinctive phrase on every page, but one who devours it from beginning to end will also get a sweeping history of six decades of 20th-century sports.
As a simple yet highly distinctive phrase with the potential to co-opt other cultural reference points, it got social media going, drawing comedy connections with everyone from Aunt Becky from 90s sitcom Full House to a 2012 meme that had recast Taylor Swift as a deceased marijuana snorter named Becky.
In the screenplay, all of King's fabulously distinctive phrases had to be unpicked and convincingly respun.
It is hard to sustain interest during the work's almost 40-minute span, although Mr. Zacharias held a listener's attention with his distinctive phrasing and accents.
Foster, though, was a professor of literature, not a linguist; he was not trained to use the forensic methods that Shuy had mastered, such as listening for unconscious semantic patterns and looking for distinctive phrases or unusual colloquialisms.
In particular, they looked for two distinctive phrases that emerged at specific times: "Comet Ison" (the name of a comet discovered in September 2012) and "Pope Francis" (the name taken by Jorge Mario Bergoglio when he became pope in March 2013).
Dr. Conrad noted that Mozart used distinctive phrases that are fairly short, often only four or even two measures long, and then repeated these phrases to build larger sections.
Turpin has spent untold hours poring over journals, letters, and other ephemera in the Walt Whitman Archive, noticing the poet's distinctive phrases and cadences; that night, he was searching through old newspapers, hoping to find echoes of that prose.
Her distinctive phrasing was also elegant in Franck's Sonata in A. Noreen Polera was the strong, sensitive accompanist, although she often didn't match Ms. Kamio's finesse and sometimes sounded rather perfunctory in Beethoven's "Kreutzer" Sonata, which seemed more a showcase for Ms. Kamio's fiery passion than a partnership of equals.
It would have all of these associations with the words and her emotions, but how do I abstract that?" The email was written by one of Delta Gamma's executive board members who claimed, (among other distinctive phrases that helped it go viral) that she would "fucking cunt punt" sorority sisters who didn't fully participate in Greek week activities.
A trademark is a distinctive word, phrase, logo, graphic symbol, or other device that is used to identify the source of a product or service and to distinguish it from competitors.
