Confronting a major photograph by Arbus, you lose your ability to know — or distinctly to think or feel, and certainly to judge — anything.
Lurie was working on Byron at the time of his disgrace, and the irony is not particularly subtle that he comes to grief from an escapade that Byron would have thought distinctly timid.
Akka, a regular and knowledgeable contributor to the below-the-line life of the Guardian's classical reviews, also turned up on Andrew Clements' review of Donald Runnicles's (mis)handling of Strauss's Four Last Songs, which the reviewer thought "distinctly unradiant" (and Akka "a car crash").
Clearly, some essential prerequisites for development of multicellular organisms and cell differentiation originated earlier than previously thought, distinctly before the origin of the animal kingdom and choanoflagellates.
It might be thought distinctly strange to consider obtaining 'consent' or 'authorisation' from a person for an autopsy to be performed upon them at some unknown future time and mandating that such a decision would necessarily lead to an autopsy being performed, as an expression of the "primacy of autonomy of the individual", despite the objections of surviving family members.
At Dulwich Picture Gallery, London SE21, until 25 September Thomas Struth Panoramic photographs of resonant, spectacular places, and unsettling juxapositions of modern people with historical cultural landmarks, make Struth a distinctly thought-provoking artist.
Asymmetry and specialization of the brain's hemispheres were once thought be distinctly human traits, but primates and other animals possess them as well.
At that point, I distinctly remember sharing with my wife that night - "I think this may be a mistake, this is not what I signed up for".
"I distinctly remember [Dodson's] closing address, him challenging everybody to think about what they can do to create a reconciled nation.
I thought about the patience I would need when teaching him to drive and I distinctly remember thinking, I won't raise my voice or judge.
