All of this literary production was accompanied by a strong essayistic tradition whose main topic was the distinctiveness of Latin American culture and, within that culture, the individual cultures of the various countries.
Now Mr Hata and his rebels have blown a hole in one of the main features of Japanese distinctiveness: a political system that has kept the Liberal Democratic Party in power for 38 unbroken years.Some Japanese compare the LDP's collapse to the fall of the Berlin Wall.
But then, there is no main element: the work's distinctiveness comes from its mix of actors and dancers, sounds and images, subjects and scenarios, even of languages.
What then of scientific method and the distinctiveness of the sciences, the main theme of the second programme?
Lord Rennard, the former Lib Dem chief executive, says in the Financial Times (subscription) that Nick Clegg needs to find policy areas to push that "do not threaten the coalition agreement but allow him to show distinctiveness from both the other main parties".
Appetizers of marinated raw fish (fluke or hamachi) lack distinctiveness; on a recent visit, a main course of sturgeon had nothing to say to the puréed beets that accompanied it.
The main goals of this study were to evaluate the distinctiveness of Homo erectus neurocranial shape relative to other closely related species, and assess the likelihood that particular fossils were correctly attributed to H. erectus given how shape variation related to geography, time and brain size.
Structural changes to the politics of the United Kingdom, particularly the European Union and devolution, have been the cited as the main stimulus to "a growing interest in Cornish identity and distinctiveness" in late-20th century Britain.
Nothing very distinctive and nothing on Liberal Democrat distinctiveness.
Indeed, sometimes vague visual forms that are distinctively named are easier to discriminate (acquired distinctiveness).
