Yet the current production by his Atlantic Theatre Company, with its quiet, deliberate direction and understated performances, only heightens the bitter themes for which Mr Mamet's distinctive, biting dialogue was meant.
The result is her most audacious and original film — one for which she devised a distinctive form that starts out from the theatrical premise that she is, in effect, playing herself, and that makes use of elaborate stagecraft to bring inner and outer life into view.
Those groups have contributed many of the folkways, costumes, and distinctive foods for which the city is noted.
"Despite the distinctive style for which I am known, parts of my own house are sleek and modern so I can keep it fresh," she says.
Dramatizing Haiti's struggle for independence and focusing on the exploitation of farm workers by colonial settlers, the paintings' high colors and puzzled-together abstract patterns established the distinctive style for which Mr. Lawrence would gain fame.
And we must attend with no less passion and care to preserving those values that have made our society distinctive and for which the World War II generation -- and other generations before it -- fought.
The team also retrieved ancient DNA from four skeletons from the later Corded Ware culture of central Europe, known for the distinctive pottery for which they are named (see photo above), as well as their dairy farming skills.
However, it is necessary to consider that this strategy can only be adopted for species with clearly distinctive features, for which field identifications are reliable.
In the violence that marked those years, Beirut became a divided city, depleted of the large, varied, and long-established community of foreigners that had once enriched its social and cultural life and given it the distinctive cosmopolitan character for which it was famed.
