Varoufakis however, like his predecessor at Gettysburg, chose the distinctly non-textbook option of a bayonet charge into the teeth of an advancing enemy.
The seniority of politicians sent to attend a funeral is carefully calibrated in diplomatic circles, and most countries – apart from Latin American countries with leftwing governments – have chosen distinctly middle-ranking delegations for Castro's ceremony.
In September of that year, convinced that the Times had become lethargic, Sulzberger chose Howell Raines, a distinctly hot personality who had been running the editorial pages, to succeed Joseph Lelyveld, a preternaturally cool Times lifer, as executive editor.
It chose Lenovo as a distinctly non-Chinese name, appending the first syllable of "legend" to the Latin word "novo," meaning new or innovative.
Akhmatova's father did not want to see any verses printed under his "respectable" name, so she chose to adopt her grandmother's distinctly Tatar surname 'Akhmatova' as a pen name.
But not so fast: Telemann was an outward-looking cosmopolitan composer, and Mr. Biondi undoubtedly chose him (rather than, say, the more distinctly Germanic Biber) for the breadth of his influence.
When you ask Mawae why he chose the Jets, he will give you two distinctly different, but honest, answers.
"I'm pretty confident they'll be picking us," said the sharpest dresser in the Super League, who chose a leather jacket last night to offset the distinctly autumnal conditions.
Just as the will is compelled to assent to what is clearly and distinctly perceived to be true, so it is compelled to choose what is clearly and distinctly perceived to be good: "if I always saw clearly what was true and good, I should never have to deliberate about the right judgement or choice" (AT VII 58/CSM II 40).
She chose the latter, despite the fact that (as noted by Martha Brookes Hutcheson, another early female landscape architect) "it was considered almost social suicide and distinctly matrimonial suicide, for a woman to enter any profession".
