It's not a new genre, but it's a distinctively American one — because our system, with its nonspecialized high schools, college electives, and adult education — is designed for self-reinventions.
Yet, for all their echoes of setting and voice, May's stories read as distinctively German, not only because of their occasional greenhorn errors.
Mine were distinctively earthy, too, largely because remnants of dirt and grass simply refused to be removed.
The creatures are nicknamed cocktail ants because the distinctively large end of the abdomen can be cocked over the thorax for protection.
Potato chips, for instance, tend to be fried in cottonseed oil, because of its distinctively clean taste.
Poll says World Cup referees in Germany last summer were told to keep a close eye on Crouch because of his distinctively rangy playing style.
Unlike the big theme hotels, CityCenter isn't easy to pick out from a distance, because its most distinctively shaped buildings aren't particularly tall and are in the center, surrounded by larger buildings.
In fact, religion has survived the assaults of reductionism because religions address distinctively human concerns, concerns that ants and computers can't have: Who am I? What is my place?
And a definition that embraces the whole continent such as respect for human rights, the rule of law, care for the poor and a love of liberty (the list offered by one European commissioner)—does so only because it not distinctively European.It is true that, compared with Americans, Europeans spend much time thinking of, talking about and subsidising their high culture.
