Sentence examples for distinctly short from inspiring English sources

This steep rise is all the more remarkable as they are distinctly short on originality.

Yet Mr Melkert is distinctly short on what Mr Kok has in abundance: charisma.

But some countries buck the trend: the Netherlands, distinctly short on ski resorts, did well because of a national passion for ice skating.

Although there is one flashy commission for a British architect (an aquatics center, designed by Zaha Hadid, in the form of a giant wave), the London Olympics are distinctly short on architectural extravaganzas.

Players have a feral appreciation of weakness, and florid philosophies expressed on flip-charts in a manager's office have a distinctly short shelf life when it is every man for himself.

Congressional approval of top judicial nominations, as in the United States and elsewhere, is one thing; a congressional share in the nomination, in a country distinctly short of the American-style separation of powers, is another.

Page 7 fellas, the Sun's counterpart to the Page 3 girls, was distinctly short-lived – like most erotica aimed at women.

It was a distinctly ominous quote from a distinctly short-odds favourite, who smashed her own world record on Sunday evening in a time of 3 56.46.

Kelly Oubre Jr., a 20-year-old rookie for the Washington Wizards, rolls up his shorts — at the waistband and from the bottom — for almost every practice and pregame warmup routine, leaving them distinctly shorter and tighter than his peers.

Small species with dark colored body; about 3 4 mm in length, having shortened discal cell, with section on M between anterior (r-m) and posterior (dm-cu) cross veins distinctly shorter than posterior cross-vein.

The third shell was fit with 12 Se atoms at 3.24 Å, which is close to the weighted average for these twelve atoms in pyrite or marcasite (Table IV), but distinctly shorter than the expected distance for dzharkenite or ferroselite.