It also needed us to think about what it is that distinguished human from animal sex, and to some degree what it is that distinguishes humans from animals.
"He is the outstanding football presenter of his generation, combining great authority from his very distinguished playing career with wonderful broadcasting instincts and sharpness – making him a true star performer".
Already academics asked to host a distinguished professor of political Islam first consult the police, and are told that this everyday university event requires a strong police presence.
When Pietroni became a distinguished academic, he threw a party to celebrate, to which a couple of Americans were invited.
It is The Theory of Everything and The Imitation Game which are the two films expected to predominate at this year's Baftas, the weirdly fortuitous pairing of two distinguished, intelligent, slightly theatrical performances and two brilliant British scientists cursed with the traditional qualities glibly associated with genius: shyness, loneliness, and disability of various sorts.
Chris Patten, the university's chancellor, said in a statement that Richardson's "distinguished record both as an educational leader and as an outstanding scholar provides an excellent basis for her to lead Oxford in the coming years".
"She's only the second woman ever to be Lord Mayor of London and the very least the honours system could do would be to honour a woman who's got such a distinguished post".
The principal of her college, Somerville, the distinguished, radical haematologist Janet Vaughan, dismissed her as "a second-rate mind", the ultimate academic put-down.
She was a distinguished lady who acted in a tight and organised way.
Panellist Cary Cooper, distinguished professor of organisational psychology and health at Lancaster University Management School, wondered why the sector was not tapping into potential talent at an earlier stage.
It was thanks to Edgar Anstey, a distinguished figure in the British documentary movement, that Schlesinger was given the 30-minute Terminus (1961) to direct - and it made his name as a director.
