Sentence examples for the distinguished thing from inspiring English sources

By Hilton Als Each play handles "the distinguished thing" differently.

Those of us who are compelled to write will continue until we meet what Henry James called "the distinguished thing".

"So here it is at last, the distinguished thing," he is said to have uttered, after that initial stroke.

28 Centenary of Henry James's death in 1916, supposedly after saying: "So here it is at last, the distinguished thing".

He reported that his first thought as he collapsed was "So here it is at last, the distinguished thing".

In cineplexes across the country, the "distinguished thing," as Henry James called it, isn't necessarily taking a holiday; it's just getting blown up.

Like much else in the poet's life, his relationship with Fanny Brawne has been softened and sentimentalised over the years: the crucially distinguished thing about Campion's treatment is that she manages to convey its painful problems, as well as its pathos.

And the only distinguished things about you are your hats!" It's a terrific scene, but fictional.

I'm not sure I'll ever embrace the whole distinguished grey thing and when the time comes I'll dye the hell out of my hair to hide that oh-so-obvious sign that, like the rest of humanity, I'm on the downslide.

The distinguished novelist, however, knows a thing or two about bottoms, and this is a good time as any to excavate that marvelously comic scene from Midnight's Children that features a blushing specimen.

The 'next big thing' expected by the characters in the book is what Henry James called 'the distinguished thing' - death.