Sentence examples for that very distinguished from inspiring English sources

Harvill continue to reissue the work of that very distinguished American novelist William Maxwell, who died last year - Time Will Darken It (Panther £6.99, pp302), The Folded Leaf (Panther £6.99, pp310) and The Chateau (Panther £7.99, pp208) are very important novels.

And Senator, frankly, you have a record in the Senate that's not very distinguished.

Mr Turnbull defended Ms Triggs as a "very distinguished" legal scholar, adding that the main issue "is the children".Ordinary Australians have never really taken to Mr Abbott.

One could say that your career has a certain continuity, although much of it not very distinguished.

And even though Albania may be a small country, it was very distinguished in Europe as being about the only country that had economic growth in 2009 and is growing again in 2010.

He's very distinguished.

And, frankly, Mr. Vice-President, your record is not very distinguished.

The result was very distinguished, but perhaps not terribly sexy – John Betjeman, Laurie Lee, V.S. Pritchett turned out.

MR. CHENEY -- Oh, I think his record speaks for itself and, frankly, it's not very distinguished.

The archbishop said Knowles had been a "very distinguished" dean who had "done a great deal to strengthen the pastoral and intellectual life of the cathedral".

Koppel actually agreed, but thought it was "tacky" to "second-guess" a fellow member of a "very distinguished but tiny club".