Sentence examples for distinguished book from inspiring English sources
Otherwise it isn't a distinguished book.
A loving portrait, by a distinguished book editor, of her father, the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr (author of the famous prayer), and the friends and family, mainly social and religious progressives, who once spent their summers in an idyllic nowhere village in northwestern Massachusetts, a place whose sweetness Sifton renders palpable.
It is not, however, a distinguished book.
It won the Distinguished Book Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion.
That book won Dr. Weigley a Distinguished Book Award from the Society for Military History in 1992.
It plans to offer the $5,000 award annually for what its jury considers the most distinguished book of the year about France or the encounters between France and the United States.
"These books are just stupendously enlarged newspaper stories," said Leon Wieseltier, literary editor of The New Republic, who argued that all of the books lacked the thoughtfulness, interpretative insight or literary quality that should distinguish books from newspapers or magazines.
Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award for most distinguished informational book for children: "The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus," written by Jen Bryant (Eerdmans Books for Young Readers).
The Randolph Caldecott Medal for most distinguished picture book for children was awarded to "The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend" by Dan Santat.
The Caldecott Medal for most distinguished picture book went to "Locomotive" by Brian Floca, and the Michael L. Printz Award for young adult literature went to Marcus Sedgwick's "Midwinterblood".
What distinguishes this book from the surfeit of recent books hyping the threat of bioterrorism are its balanced perspective and elucidation of naturally emerging disease threats, such as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) or West Nile virus, as exotic entities requiring a rapid and effective response; Mother Nature is quite the bioterrorist herself.
