It's no coincidence that Cage starred in these minor masterpieces, doing so with that distinctive ability to perform with obvious, playful knowingness, yet without madly winking at his audience to prove that he's above all this, really.
Gardner's game is predicated on speed, something the Yankees do not have, so that makes him distinctive.
There's that distinctive voice, so low and adult, only the odd conversational dead end revealing the last traces of teenage awkwardness.
They were deconstructed so that the distinctive diamond patterns faded away.
So much so that many distinctive companies opt to remain private rather than submit to the pressures to conform inherent in public ownership.
They are a status symbol, a fashion statement, and the way to wear them is with the upper laces undone so that the distinctive high tops flap around the ankle.
"Yeah, but while I'm thinking about it, I want each thing to be separate as it goes down!" Audiences have the same preference -- a dislike for casserole presentations, where all the ideas and information are blended into a lumpy hodgepodge so that nothing is distinctive.
We believe that the CARS imaging morphology of nerve tissue is so strikingly distinctive that surgeons would be able to reliably identify nerves in most instances without having to call on pathologists.
