Many of the musicians appearing in Carnegie Hall's Distinctive Debuts series have indeed proved distinctive.
Yet history has proven distinctive eyebrows to be a surprisingly marketable commodity.
Mr. Wong's eclectic approach -- half MTV, half Josef von Sternberg -- is strongly echoed in such films as "Suzhou River" and "Nowhere to Hide," and has proved distinctive enough to inspire at least one Hong Kong parody, Ko Sau-leung's "The Days of Being Dumb".
Zemlinsky, despite debts to Brahms and Dvorak, proves highly distinctive in his shaping and development of themes.
Inevitably, perhaps, Beauregard Palmer and Timothy Nolen proved more distinctive for their personas as Fatty and Trinity Moses than for their singing.
By Richard Brody January 12 , 2018Jaume Collet-Serra's laughably contrived action film, starring Liam Neeson on a Metro-North train, proves that distinctive traits in a director are not necessarily a mark of artistry.
Of the four pieces in Series A — including a miniature musical — two were negligible, one was earnest, and one, which initially seemed like a train wreck waiting to happen, proved quirky, distinctive and funny.
The copolymer has proved many distinctive merits, such as aqueous solubility, biocompatibility, non-charging, and non-toxicity, and is often used in a number of fields [22 26].
Initial ideas for categories were explored and often times dismissed (e.g., 'image of aging' did not prove to be distinctive within our text corpus), using paradigmatic examples and the explicit search for contrasting examples.
Impersonation may be an extraordinarily constructive mode for filmmakers; the exercise of style, similar to that of painters who go to museums to copy the works of masters, could prove to be a distinctive form of artistic liberation.
