With a distinctive use of time comes a distinctive use of space.
Shahn also created widely reproduced graphic works, in which he developed an original and distinctive use of line.
The director also makes distinctive use of music, filling the soundtrack with classical pieces — orchestrations of compositions by Bach, Schubert, Schumann, Liszt, Brahms.
His distinctive use of colour is central Italian in origin pale, fugitive colours blended chiefly from vermilion pinks, mother-of-pearl whites, and grays.
Beak style, distinctive use of birdlike forms in human figures carved in wood in the lower Sepik and Ramu regions of Papua New Guinea.
Each show was marked by Mr Wilson's distinctive use of artificial light, abstracted sets, and luminescent, mask-like make-up on his performers.
Since releasing his self-titled debut album in 2011, Blake's distinctive use of space and silence, his stark juxtaposition of intimate, emotionally direct vocals with sub-bassy club rhythms, has made him the musician's musician.
Mr. Leichter's piece "Undertow," chosen by Mr. Wright to be performed at the most recent "In the Company of Men" showcase and scheduled for the Flea program, exemplifies the choreographer's distinctive use of music and movement.
Sam Phillips's "slapback" delay treatment of Elvis Presley's voice, Phil Spector's distinctive use of the echo chamber, and the extraordinary innovations produced by digital sampling illustrate how seemingly "natural" sounds are technologically effected in the composition of popular music.
It's not true, of course, that "The Great Train Robbery," from 1903, was the first narrative film — Georges Méliès had already constructed some elaborate stories in films from before the turn of the century — but it makes distinctive use of guns and, in the process, suggests much about why guns are themselves such distinctively cinematic objects.
