When Mulligan wears a simple, knee-length dress with a high neckline and a detailed collar framing that elfin face, she sets herself apart as fresher than the women around her on the red carpet, corseted and Spanxed and cantilevered into the narrowest frocks they can find.
She has set herself apart from the 20th Century modernists who try to uphold the idea that "works of art can provide the unity, coherence, and meaning that has been lost in most of modern life".
In a positive review, Jason Birchmeier of AllMusic commented that the album presents Rihanna as "winsome rather than [a] wannabe," as well as how she managed to set herself apart from other urban dance-pop artists such as Ashanti, Beyoncé, and Ciara.
She has managed to set herself apart in an increasingly cluttered Cuban blogosphere, earning respect for her thorough reporting and simple, moving prose.
She has sought to set herself apart from the dozen or more Democrats vying to challenge President Donald Trump in next year's presidential election with a flurry of policy proposals at an early stage of the campaign.
She positions herself as a pragmatic progressive, to set herself apart from Bernie Sanders (or Elizabeth Warren, for that matter).
Perhaps González's trump card is not only that she actively sets herself apart – by refusing to engage in the dutiful wife game – but she genuinely is different.
"Every one of the rowers, when they haven't had Mary as a coxswain, has said, 'Ooh, we miss Mary.' She just sets herself apart, not in practice, but it's usually in a race.
She also sets herself apart by citing at length novels and poems that illustrate this "transformation of sensibility" -- or sometimes its absence, as with Edith Wharton's lonely beauty Lily Bart in "The House of Mirth," who on her deathbed realizes that a child would have given her life meaning.
Might she not be setting herself apart from readers who did not share her spirituality?
