It frames her face like a lovely cobra's hood, highlighted with distinctive threads of white and smoky gray.
(When it comes to such parallel observations, Carey acknowledges that scholars "will detect, squirreled away among the thatch of sentences, distinctive threads, necklaces of words that were clearly made by the great man himself").
(Carey acknowledges his indebtedness to many Tocquevillian sources, and has woven into the text what, in his acknowledgments, he calls "distinctive threads, necklaces of words which were clearly made by the great man himself").
The special qualities of playfulness in Calder — his love of soft water and small wind, of the safe outdoors, of imaginary animals easily tamed — belong to a distinctive thread of modern art, the kind that William Empson, in his great discussion of childhood and play in the "Alice" books, called "the child as swain," reanimating nature with unconscious poetic wisdom more than with innocence.
The "Aquila" saffron, or zafferano dell'Aquila, is defined by high safranal and crocin content, distinctive thread shape, unusually pungent aroma, and intense colour; it is grown exclusively on eight hectares in the Navelli Valley of Italy's Abruzzo region, near L'Aquila.
As well as offering a potted history of the fervid and insurrectionary 1790s, when guillotined heads litter the Place de la Révolution and the booty-hungry French generals have their eyes on Rome, Scarpia follows two distinctive personal threads.
The structure of G protein-coupled receptors is distinctive: they thread up and down through the cell membrane, crossing seven times.
Princess Eugenie, currently eighth in line to the throne, has been photographed apparently wearing the distinctive red thread that devotees ties around their left wrist, although Weston declines to be drawn on this, saying only that he has "many connections with many royal families around the world".
Furthermore, in all sections of the neocortex, we observed distinctive AT8ir granules, globules and threads in the molecular layer subjacent to the subpial TTR amyloid deposits.
Most distinctive were subpial AT8ir granules, globules and threads subjacent to the subpial TTR amyloid deposits throughout the neocortex (Fig. 3a,b).
Mr. Chermayeff explained that the common conceptual thread for each was the distinctive architecture of the Whitney by Marcel Breuer and the Guggenheim by Frank Lloyd Wright.
