Sentence examples for rather distinguished from inspiring English sources

If it is just contact with rather distinguished people, that's not good enough.

The most dramatic change was made by the rather distinguished and conservative Bob Anders.

Brown above and greyish-white below, he sports a jet-black head, set off by a smart white collar and moustache, giving him a rather distinguished appearance.

High-spirited, quick-witted, and well-educated, Todd came from a rather distinguished Kentucky family, and her Springfield relatives belonged to the social aristocracy of the town.

Its centenary passed with little ceremony and what looks a rather distinguished slot – the final weekend and, in the case of the women, the final medal to be awarded.

Has the authorial "I" gained respectability at last? Dominated by history and biography since it was first awarded in 1999, to be a memoirist snubbed by this prize is to belong to a rather distinguished club, a salon des refuses,, as can be seen from the relevant titles honoured by other, less sniffy, awards over the same period.

And Dr. Rona is no unhinged Captain Ahab, but rather a distinguished oceanographer at Rutgers University.

This was her second film with Anthony Hopkins and they were reunited - albeit from opposite sides of the Atlantic - for the rather less distinguished 84 Charing Cross Road (1986).

Thomas Jefferson, who "realized every issue was going to be difficult and emotional," Mr. Ritchie said, wrote the first rules manual in the 1790s in which members were instructed not to call one another by name, but rather the "distinguished senator from state of X or Y," and to address one another through the chairman and not directly.

His family was rather grand – Liberal politician Sir John Lubbock was an ancestor; so was the distinguished literary critic Percy Lubbock – and he had been to Eton.

He made portraits of sculptors, actors and literary notables, and in 1960 zeroed in on the eyes — sometimes the left, sometimes the right — of distinguished, rather ancient artists (among them Jean Dubuffet, Louise Nevelson, Jean Arp and Alberto Giacometti), resulting in extreme close-ups of organs of sight surrounded by leathery, sagging skin that are beyond gender, race and even species.