Sometimes it can be a thing as little as a jar of peanuts -- with its faint but distinct smell just strong enough to evoke memories in my father's lap while we snacked in the big blue chair in the living room.
She had this habit, when she laughed, it was just very distinct.
Many of them may not fully recognize just how distinct and difficult these problems are.
Yet a group of scientists now report just three distinct ecosystems in the guts of people they have studied.
Yet, with just four distinct characters at its disposal, four nucleic acid bases, the human genome has given rise to the creators of every language uttered, every ballad sung, every Pokemon card traded.
Then, of course, there's political leadership, which the report very sensibly separates out as not just a distinct set of recommendations but the final one dealt with, and thus by implication the most important.
"Robert Rauschenberg: Current Scenarios," an exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art here, touches on just three distinct moments in the long career of one of the most influential artists of the last 50 years.
Perhaps Malebranche is not inconsistent after all for, as it turns out, ideas are substances, just not distinct substances.
