Sentence examples for if a distinctly from inspiring English sources

But the score has a definite operatic pedigree, if a distinctly retro one.

Though his latest to hit the American big screen, "Tokyo Sonata," looks like a family melodrama — if a distinctly eccentric variant on the typical domestic affair — there is more than a touch of horror to its story of a salaryman whose downsizing sets off a series of cataclysmic events.

That audience is small -- circulation is only about 34,000 -- but sophisticated, if in a distinctly Southern way, which is appreciated by writers for the magazine like the humorist Roy Blount Jr. "If you're writing for The New Yorker, you know your readers know where Chelsea is," said Mr. Blount, an expatriate Georgian now living in Manhattan.

Barnett crafts her lyrics with great care, and then delivers them as if she's improvising, in a distinctly Australian sing-song style.

Figuring things out requires moving through the paintings in a distinctly spatial way, as if through a darkened aquarium inhabited by suspended bits of paint instead of fish.

He was in a distinctly unhappy mood.

He wanted to know if someone with a distinctly black name suffers an economic penalty.

Listening to his speech on Wednesday, it seemed as if he planned a distinctly hands-off role.

With back-row options there's a bit of depth to the squad and they were not frightened of the All Blacks even if Steve Hansen fielded a distinctly experimental side with an eye on next autumn rather than this.

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If anything, it's a distinctly English folk equivalent of Captain Beefheart's deconstruction of the blues.