Sentence examples for distinctly an from inspiring English sources

Hoban is 82, and this is distinctly an old man's book: cranky, wistful, riddled with mortality.

That, as the war progressed, "the contest would become distinctly an anti-slavery one," and the tariff fable finally forgotten.

In earlier centuries Thanet was more distinctly an island; the Wantsum Channel, an important water route, separated it from the mainland.

The Academie Julian was distinctly an original idea whose time had come, and before long students from all over the world were applying for admission.

But there comes a moment near the end when, importantly, the "we" the narrator uses to describe himself and his brothers becomes very distinctly an "I".

The complete, Italian-language "Leopard" (the first disc of the DVD) is distinctly an old man's film, ornery, a little set in its ways: it moves at its own pace, and, if it is not entirely serene in its wisdom, it is at least resigned to the idea that this vision of life is the fullest it will achieve.

And his admirers have been distinctly A-list.

But this one is, after all, distinctly a hot war.

But that is still distinctly a minority view.

Jones's "The March on Washington" is distinctly a work of the second-emphasis school.

To be with him was distinctly a privilege, and one that could last for a lifetime.