But while McCarthy isn't afraid to nod towards cinematic predecessors such as George A Romero (images of hungries loitering in the doorways of Waterstones and Waitrose knowingly recall his Dawn of the Dead), his vision remains singular and distinctive, moving the genre forward rather than merely retreating into its past.
"'Escape From Tomorrow' perfectly embodies what we try to celebrate here, which is a truly distinctive singular vision," Mr. Groth said.
Every person is a strange and singular tangle of distinctive interests, desires, impulses, tones, and overtones, carried in the voice, the physique, the bearing.
The Khoe languages are distinguished by a system of noun genders based on the categories masculine, feminine, and common, which are present to different degrees in the form of distinctive singular, plural, and dual (pair of) suffixes.
Add to this an element of surreal invention (past and present intertwining, personalities fracturing) and Exhibition reaffirms Hogg's status as a distinctive, singular and challenging voice of British cinema.
There is no distinctive singular Negro type.
That's not to say everything in the show is a distinctive, singular artwork apart from the rest: "In the beginning, it was just about showcasing a little bit of all the things I had gotten engulfed in, but as I became inspired to make a more complete body of work for each, I began to notice subtle themes emerge, which interwove itself throughout the entire show".
Inspired partly, but only partly, by Ernst Lubitsch, it is distinctive and singular in a way that usually seems to lose Wes Anderson as many friends as he gains.
With a new spurt of energy halfway through the season, as if to remind us there's no slacking in these 72 concerts, the BBC Proms were at their singular best in a distinctive programme featuring Jessye Norman and the London Sinfonietta.
Paul Moorhouse, the gallery's curator of 20th century portraits, said: "Craigie Aitchison was a highly distinctive artist whose singular vision was rooted in an acute sensitivity to colour and subtle implications of meaning.
