Sentence examples for lend distinction from inspiring English sources

Director Peter Cotes, writing in The Guardian, called him one of Britain's "most accomplished screen character actors", while The Times obituarist observed that he "could lend distinction to the smallest part".

These imperfections are what lend distinction to the product.

But Robert Langevin lent distinction with his extended flute solo, and the excellent lower strings followed suit, luxuriating in the big tune.

But what really lends distinction to her announcement is the perversity, the sheer incoherence of the kind of policies she seems to hope her husband will recommend.

Because getting on the state or national list lends distinction to a property, many of Ms. Berkey's clients have been innkeepers like Don Kelly, who bought a house here where Jonathan Pitney lived, reopening it as a bed and breakfast.

Gielgud made cameo appearances in films of little merit, lending distinction while not damaging his own reputation.

The manorial system was strong in Chadderton, and this lent distinction to the township, in a region which otherwise had weak local lordship.

THE same contrary qualities in Berlioz's music that lend it distinction make it hard to pull off in performance.

And he does so with a fairly candid agenda, plainly intent that top-class steeplechasers should lend due distinction to a prize worth so much more than the Cheltenham Gold Cup itself.

Getting listed lends distinction to a property.

In return, Finch became the ideal friend, remembering all significant details (husbands' jobs, children's names, birthdays, injustices of hated colleagues), and thus by the quality of her attention lending a distinction to three rather plain, contented lives.