Soon comes the inevitable parental divorce, conducted with the spectacular lack of attunement to children's basic needs that distinguished so much '70s parenting.
They evoke not only turn-of-the century New York and Yonkers, but also Smith's particular gifts, including the airy lightness that distinguished so much of his work from the beginning of his career (the 1942 set for Agnes de Mille's ballet "Rodeo").
The opposition of the determinations, the one demonstrating, the other denying, does not distinguish them so much as their common presupposition identifies them: that human [subjectivity] might, conceptually, reach God.
Indeed, our era is distinguished not so much by information overload, but by opinion overload.
In a book distinguished by so much keen, unassertive subtlety, he is quite literally forced to light a fire so that the story can be coaxed toward a crescendo.
Lyga embraced the ethos of the L.A. street cop, a breed distinguished not so much by race, or even by gender, as by distinctness from the "insiders," or "bun boys" — officers who make their way to command positions through desk jobs and adjutancy.
It is distinguished not so much by a geographic base, as by a sense of belonging, an identification with it on the part of its members.
The home cook may not want to attempt many of the dishes without the help of a brigade of staff, but the recipes are more fascinating for their rigor, and how they are distinguished from so much that passes for sleight-of-hand cookery these days.
Martin Sattler Reston, Va., July 3, 2006 The contention between the government and the free press is fundamental to the operation of our democracy, and all the more so in a time like the present, when the very values that distinguish us from so much of the world are at stake in the debate.
But nothing distinguishes Maqroll's women so much as their willingness to knock themselves out for him, reaping misfortune and abandonment for their pains.
