It was a distinctly urban kind of tragedy, one that brought to mind a distinctly different kind of accident — long-distance falls by military pilots or sky divers whose parachutes failed to open, and who survived.
These small rooms are the setting for a distinctly New York kind of love.
The teaching of history, if the work of Dawkins and Grayling is anything to judge by, will be of a distinctly Whiggish kind.
A distinctly different kind of look at the county can be had through the journalistic eyes of Westchester Jewish Week, which issues five regional editions -- Manhattan, Long Island, Queens, Westchester/The Bronx and Brooklyn/Staten Island.
Hip-hop lyrics are a distinctly urban kind of poetry that has exploded in the past 30 years, rising mainly from the experience of black Americans in cities but increasingly to be found in metropolises worldwide.
Even at the peak of the free love late 60's, the sound of Gainsbourg and Ms. Birkin exchanging whispers and moans over a wistful keyboard line was a thrilling dose of what seemed a distinctly French kind of sexual cosmopolitanism.
What we said: "This really is a beautifully crafted album, its sincere homages to Jam & Lewis's crisp R&B or Womack & Womack's swish club soul transformed by a distinctly English kind of longing.
Mr. Amalric, like Mr. Léaud (with whom he has appeared twice, in "Diary of a Seducer" and "L'Affaire Marcorelle"), specializes in playing a distinctly French kind of hero: an intellectual paralyzed by his own introspection, simultaneously antic and morose.
It was the accident pilots and passengers in the still-new jet age had feared the most — a distinctly new kind of catastrophe, one that had never happened over a major urban area, one that would have seemed far less terrifying a few years earlier, when planes were smaller and slower.
Mr. Wolfe's portrait was cruel -- that Peter Lorre line had to sting -- but it captured something essential about Castelli: the way he combined sex and European high-mindedness along with, humming just below the surface, a distinctly American kind of chutzpah.
