Lumet received another nod from the DGA for his handling of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962), on which he applied a masterful mix of static and dynamic camerawork, turning the play into a distinctly cinematic work with a classic performance from Katharine Hepburn in the lead.
In any case Mr. Nolan's play is not only respectful of Catholicism and Catholics, it is also a distinctly sorrowful work, as opposed to an outraged one.
This treatise, unlike the Book of Definitions and Book of Substances is a distinctly Jewish work of philosophy, as it combines doctrines of soul drawn from Ibn Hasday's Neoplatonist with Jewish scriptural proof texts, supporting a Neoplatonist conception of soul as distinct from mortal spirit, combined with the Rabbinic Jewish belief in reward and punishment of souls.
"Happy Hour," a work of distinctly modern cinema, reaches deep into the classic traditions of melodrama along with its coincidences and its violent contrasts to revive a latent power for grand-scale observation through painfully close contact with the agonizing intimacies of contemporary life.
James Poniewozik of Time remarked, "Producer Greg Daniels created not a copy but an interpretation that sends up distinctly American work conventions with a tone that's more satiric and less mordant.
His first significant theatre piece, "The Flies," had premièred the year before, when he was thirty-seven; a distinctly anti-Fascist work produced in Vichy-era France, "The Flies" generated a critical dialogue that helped fuel Sartre's growing notoriety.
Modern scholar Joseph Wood Krutch said the collection "save for a few poems, [was] distinctly prentice work".
Distinctly Roman work is hard to trace, as the conquered Greeks worked for their masters, and the Romans copied wholesale from the Greeks.
You might wonder what the distinctly dystopian work of Mr. Crewdson is doing here, but it certainly ties in with the weirdness factor.
What's useful about these little Dada exercises is that they end by doing the great and distinctly conservative work of revealing the actual beliefs of the people who are taking part in politics.
