Sentence examples for distinguished things from inspiring English sources

And the only distinguished things about you are your hats!" It's a terrific scene, but fictional.

As Tosca, Martina Serafin promises distinguished things, and she is committed and accomplished at several points, especially in act one.

By Hilton Als Each play handles "the distinguished thing" differently.

Those of us who are compelled to write will continue until we meet what Henry James called "the distinguished thing".

"So here it is at last, the distinguished thing," he is said to have uttered, after that initial stroke.

28 Centenary of Henry James's death in 1916, supposedly after saying: "So here it is at last, the distinguished thing".

He reported that his first thought as he collapsed was "So here it is at last, the distinguished thing".

In cineplexes across the country, the "distinguished thing," as Henry James called it, isn't necessarily taking a holiday; it's just getting blown up.

The drag ball is a glorious set-piece of comedy and pathos; but Henry James's description of death as "the distinguished thing" recurs throughout the book.

In cineplexes across the country, the "distinguished thing," as… Save for amusingly trenchant shows like E!'s "Talk Soup," the English concept of "taking the piss" out of that apparatus known as Culture has been… We were in love.

They bookend a sequence of five case studies of writers whose thoughts on mortality are often arresting, sometimes moving, yet never add up to a coherent vision of what Henry James called "the distinguished thing".