Sentence examples for distinctive to make from inspiring English sources

But the characters are not sufficiently distinctive to make them interesting or to lend pathos to their anguish.

We hope to build something quite distinctive, and to make a contribution".

The centre-left has a distinctive contribution to make in strengthening Europe's efforts to fight terror.

But even a few hours can give a taste of another place distinctive enough to make me feel I've traveled somewhere, not just through somewhere.

From a retail perspective, Mr. Buccini, a Wilmington native, said the goal was to fill the district with distinctive businesses to make it stand out from suburban shopping options.

There are no major works here, but most of the pieces, even the rough sketches, contain enough of Benton's distinctive style to make them instantly recognizable as his.

A tall, handsome and charismatic man, Fuqua lacked the distinctive voice to make him a front-line solo artist; instead he turned to backroom activities in the music business.

I was going to suggest that Chaplin is one of the consummate artists in the history of cinema, whose every secreted item of trivia embodies and reflects the imprint of a vast soul, perhaps the most multifarious and distinctive ever to make a movie and then I said to myself, "along with Orson Welles"—and then, "and Jean-Luc Godard, Jean Renoir, John Cassavetes, and Alfred Hitchcock".

Just one of the five phones introduced Monday was aimed at the midlevel market where Nokia has been having the most serious problems, analysts said, and none of the products were distinctive enough to make the company immediately stand out from the competition.

Written mostly for younger readers, her contemporary adventure stories with titles such as Danger On the Old Pull 'n Push (1962) and The Black Mountain Mystery (1967) fitted easily into their market while lacking anything distinctive enough to make her either a great critical or commercial success.

Doubtless if he had stayed in Germany he'd already have an oeuvre; in any case, the question is whether he made "The Lives of Others" or whether it made him — whether his most important contribution to the project was finding and working out the story, and whether there's anything about his direction that's distinctive enough to make a studio want to hire him for it alone.