Mr. Apted's first film here, "Coal Miner's Daughter" (a musical adaptation of it is Broadway bound), was one of several he's done that tell distinctly American stories.
Kelley was seventeen when he met his future wife, Karen Gibson; she was fourteen and, she told me, distinctly unimpressed.
Gus Van Sant's 2008 feature Milk lovingly canonised activist politician Harvey Milk through the universal language of the mainstream biopic, while this year's Pride told the distinctly queer story of the 1980s alliance between LGBTQ campaigners and striking miners through that most British of forms, the sleeves-up, in-it-together social comedy.
I'm gonna be just like you, huh Dad?" While telling these distinctly male stories, Bogosian was careful to maintain a whiff of irony, so as not to alienate his audience with too much machismo.
The images from Swedish photographer David Magnusson's new book, Purity, are beautiful, disturbing and tell a distinctly American story – a story wherein a girl's virginity is held up as a moral ideal above all else, a story in which the most important characteristic of a young woman is whether or not she is sexually active.
Together, the films tell the distinctly African American stories.
The story she told was a distinctly American one: complicated, crowded, eventful, told from the perspective of innocents.
The 29-year-old won the last of 42 caps against Uruguay a year ago and his international career appeared to be over after he revealed in January that Jones had told him he was "distinctly average" and lacked the world-class work rate demanded of a blindside flanker.
Did you distinctly tell her that you liked them, yet she still got with them?
"I sensed he was distinctly alarmed," Wood told me.
