Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Kennedy's special assistant, called those sentences "the distinctive note" of the inaugural.
But the stories only come into their being through Brookner's distinctive sentences, ripely substantial, stamped unapologetically with the writer's personality, commenting and discriminating, digressing and summarising – and darkly funny.
For example, P headings contain POPULATION, PARTICIPANTS, PATIENTS, SUBJECTS, SAMPLE, etc. Afterwards, abstracts containing distinctive sentence headings were automatically selected and the first sentences following the PICO descriptor marked with corresponding PICO elements.
"But the way Perkins delivers a sentence is so distinctive that you can't really half-do it.
Their conquest is far from complete, but a few areas have been occupied: most good law schools in the country now employ at least one economist, and policy reforms in fields as diverse as antitrust law, environmental regulation and criminal sentencing bear the distinctive imprint of economic analysis.
One solution is to use the structural information embedded in some abstracts for which the authors have clearly stated distinctive sentence headings.
Complex sentences with subtle use of distinctive conjunctions were a feature of the Classical language, and effective play was made with the possibilities offered by flexible word order.
With their distinctive voice (short, declarative sentences – that 160-character limit!
Inasmuch as it is the distinctive function of protocol sentences to report one's evidence, a view about what sorts of contents a protocol sentence might have is in effect a view about what sorts of things can count as evidence.
Appearing in a Fabian Society essay during his campaign for the Labour leadership, this sentence by Ed Miliband epitomises what is distinctive about him as a politician as well as his greatest challenge as Labour leader.
