"Right behind you," my mother says distinctly, catching up with me halfway to the opposite curb.
This new version, it must be said, distinctly improves on the original, whose choppy sentences, many written in the present tense, lose nothing when recast for younger readers.
But the type of investing he does is, as one person who knows him well said, "distinctly downmarket" for a boutique investment bank with a proud European heritage.
"In a darkened room, my poor girl, sitting motionless, with her wonderful hair about her, looking at me with eyes that did not see me, and saying distinctly: 'Credo in unum Deum omnipotentem.... Credo in unum Deum omnipotentem'... those are the only words, it appears, that she ever will utter".
When asked to state his occupation and position, the exhausted looking dancer, dark circles around his eyes and under a disheveled head of hair, summoned all the dignity he could muster and said distinctly: "I was a leading [ballet] soloist of the Bolshoi Theater".
What we think of as coaching was, sports historians say, a distinctly American development.
For a writer whose lifelong subject has been espionage, he's surprisingly guileless: his narrative tradecraft, as George Smiley might say, is distinctly unorthodox -- borderline unsound.
"One never knows," he said, sounding distinctly politician-like.
The two, he said, are distinctly different takes on Mr. Harling's story.
"All the mistakes on this show are real," he says, looking distinctly queasy.
