Many of the musicians appearing in Carnegie Hall's Distinctive Debuts series have indeed proved distinctive.
Beyond the standard rituals of D's and R's standing around nursing drinks and looking up at TV sets in search of returns, some gatherings did prove distinctive to 2010.
From there, he honed a spare, pointillist style that proved distinctive on the page amid the sweeping lines and brash brushstrokes of some of the longtime New Yorker cartoonists.
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".
Unfortunately, little of what follows proves as distinctive.
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.
They all came from the Walla Walla district, where some of the most interesting terroir research has occurred, focusing on steep, stony hillsides that over the years may prove especially distinctive.
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.
