For example, owning only one lovely, though distinctly minor work by Gérôme, the Getty Museum pulled out all the stops to organize this show here in LA before it travels to Paris and Madrid.
But while her lirico spinto soprano often sounded lovely, she looked distinctly uncomfortable, sometimes clutching her music stand and peering intently at the score.
The lessons from Olson are there, but assimilated, and poems like "The Rick of Green Wood," "The Hide of My Mother" and "On the Debt My Mother Owed to Sears Roebuck" are as distinctly American and austere and lovely in design as a Shaker cabinet.
A precautionary note: the refuges are all lovely, but they are distinctly basic.
I don't want to suggest that "LA people are crazy," because I do love living here and have met a lot of lovely humans, but there is something distinctly annoying about arranging for someone to chaffeur your dog.
One of the loveliest has been through a distinctly Turkish tradition called Mevlud (also spelled as Mevlut) which recalls and celebrates the birth of the Prophet.
The cygnets are beat-perfect, making this hackneyed number a real pleasure to watch, while lead swans Jia Zhang and Ksenia Ovsyanick are notably lovely throughout, gliding serenely over some distinctly choppy orchestral playing.
Her penchant for nostalgia — in addition to "Boogie Woogie," she sang a lovely cover of Rosemary Clooney's "Tenderly" — is a distinctly American impulse, too.
The young prince of light himself is played by Daniel Radcliffe, who has charm and a lovely, open face, though he is subtly but distinctly outclassed by his pals.
It is a lovely little ceremony and in Iraq it is distinctly Shia and has to be administered by a Shia cleric.
