The subjects were also unable to distinguish needle authenticity.
Despite their current embryonic career span, the Smart brother's sound is distinguished by authenticity and sophistication.
One reason for the Beatles' astonishing popularity by the end of the 1960s was precisely that they did not distinguish between the "authenticity" of, say, Chuck Berry and the "artifice" of the Marvelettes.
The show offers several answers to the question, inviting us to distinguish between different degrees of authenticity.
The very authenticity and virtuosity that distinguish outstanding world music artists disqualify them from popularity with the younger audiences of their own cultures, who seek the most up-to-date artists.
Let's distinguish this from scientism, which has the appearance of scientific authenticity but is often nothing more than a series of assertions with corresponding statistics, percentages, and equations of dubious quality.
She helps them distinguish the skills needed to be great leaders, e.g. empathy, compassion, authenticity, respect, genuineness, and, of course, a sense of humor.
But Guthrie, who would have been 100 years old on July 14, was also a brilliant and distinctive prose stylist, whose writing is distinguished by a homespun authenticity, deep-seated purpose and remarkable ear for dialect.
At the same time, authenticity does not hold out some specific way of life as a norm; that is, it does not distinguish between the projects that I might choose.
This sort of psychological authenticity is what distinguishes Mr. Carvel's acting, said Rob Ashford, who directed the 2007 London production of "Parade," in which Mr. Carvel played Leo Frank, the Jewish factory manager who is lynched after being falsely accused of murdering a 13-year-old girl.
