Sentence examples for distinctive turn from inspiring English sources

Scott's loving monologue to Jumbo is a perfect example of Donoghue's facility with dialogue and character traits; Matthew's distinctive turn of phrase — "We don't mind the piddling tiddlers of this world, do we, boy?

Litt would also say that Clapper finds open intelligence-committee hearings, a requirement of congressional oversight, as annoying as folding fitted sheets, citing a distinctive turn of phrase used by his boss.

But they were the exceptions in the decades when "joining Europe" was the modernising ambition of states as different as Turkey, Portugal and former Soviet satellites.At this point Britain took another distinctive turn.

Pinker is under no obligation to credit Judaism or Christianity with any particular role in the story he's telling, but a book that essentially portrays European civilization as a kind of moral vanguard for humanity should at least address the possibility that this distinctive turn away from violence was influenced by the West's distinctive religious heritage.

This is a distinctive turn.

So it's a tension free 90 minutes but it did allow for some happy cavorting and Jackson to add a distinctive turn to his already solid list of Broadway shows.

Mr. Gaston explored his inner cop and special forces agent in bad-guy roles for film and television, with some distinctive turns on Broadway.

We have proposed the term β‐arc for the distinctive turns found in β‐solenoids and β‐arch for the corresponding strand‐turn‐strand motifs.

If, like me, you were hoping that "God's Pocket," starring the late Philip Seymour Hoffman in one of his final films, would feature yet another of the actor's distinctive turns, you are fresh out of luck.

Unfortunately for the architect, that distinctive colour turned out to be copper.

Darling is 10 when we first meet her, and the voice Ms. Bulawayo has fashioned for her is utterly distinctive — by turns unsparing and lyrical, unsentimental and poetic, spiky and meditative.