But Kyu Ho Youm, a First Amendment scholar at the University of Oregon's journalism school, said the United States Supreme Court was betraying a distinctively American commitment to free expression and access to information.
There was a distinctively American quality to the program presented by the New York City Ballet on Wednesday night at the New York State Theater.
Others have celebrated Gershwin as the distillation of Jazz Age ebullience, the inventor of a distinctively American classical music and a sharp political satirist (the operettas).
Under the rumblings of baby hunger in "Boys and Girls," there can be heard a distinctively American — and adolescent — ambition: to have everything all the time.
As the historian and former dancer Jennifer Homans details, in "Apollo's Angels," it was not until after the Second World War that a distinctively American ballet began to form.
In her frequent public appearances, she talks about her service as the first woman on the Supreme Court, encourages students to learn about their government and worries about the consequences of the distinctively American practice of electing judges.
What's distinctively American about Eastwood's sniper?
Their success is a distinctively American joke.
This is also a consequence of a distinctively American approach.
God's back - and with a distinctively American drawl.
Yet her columns had a distinctively American voice.
