Sentence examples for the less distinctive from inspiring English sources

"The more gas mileage and the newer the vehicle, the less distinctive the sound".

But the bigger and more easily reached a place is, the less distinctive its music becomes.

Mr. Ventris's voice is the less distinctive of the two, but as Parsifal at the Met in February, Mr. Kaufmann paced himself cautiously and acted blankly, despite seductive baritonal colors.

These particular styles, however, are not really as typical of the period as the less distinctive plain hands in which the majority of the manuscripts are written, at least in the 11th and 12th centuries.

Connelly's tenth novel, is something of an experiment: Connelly brings together Bosch and the less distinctive hero of "Blood Work" (1998), an F.B.I. profiler named Terry McCaleb, now retired to a tenuous private life on Catalina Island as a husband and father.

Ken Tucker from Entertainment Weekly believed that "in some ways, this was one of the less-distinctive, more X-Files-ish episodes of Fringe on Thursday night.

As he previously did with J.G. Ballard's "Crash" and William Burroughs's "Naked Lunch," Mr. Cronenberg has taken a potentially tricky novel and worked around the problems of adaptation by merging his distinctive sensibility with the no less distinctive one of the author.

It's hard to say for sure after watching only one episode, but a more confrontational and high-adrenaline "Top Chef Masters" may bump up ratings at the cost of making the show less distinctive.

Every time some human attribute is said to be unique, whether tool-making or language or warfare, biologists soon find some plausible precursor in animals that makes the ability less distinctive.

Hence, two representations of objects that share the same location may partly rely on the same neural assembly, making the two representations less distinctive, and thereby increasing the probability of reporting a feature belonging to another object in memory.

It's also something of a letdown, at least insofar as the record is less distinctive than the band's best material.