Sentence examples for distinguished stranger from inspiring English sources

It was freezingly cold, and this job of seeing off a distinguished stranger was not one to be envied, but Lieutenant Dubosc performed his part manfully.

The local correspondent for The New York Times wrote that Benjamin, "a distinguished stranger", drew the largest crowds to the courtroom and "the Senator is making this terribly tedious case interesting".

Haslett is the author of a distinguished book of stories, "You Are Not a Stranger Here," and he has confessed in an interview that this novel took several years to write, partly because "the long form intimidated me".

With The Two Faces of January released on Friday, its director and screenwriter Hossein Amini joins a distinguished lineup of Patricia Highsmith adapters that includes Alfred Hitchcock (Strangers on a Train), René Clement (Plein Soleil, AKA Purple Noon), Wim Wenders (The American Friend), Claude Chabrol (The Cry of the Owl) and Anthony Minghella (The Talented Mr Ripley).

Sir Eric had recently retired from a distinguished career as a civil servant in India, and was therefore a stranger to the country he had represented for so long.

A distinguished man of letters arrives at the home of eager, dithering strangers and becomes unhappily ensconced in a spare room.

as "distinguished persons".

A distinguished NYC attorney.

A distinguished fiction writer.

This is pretty distinguished".

This was a distinguished performance.