Bishop's voice is a distinctive one on the fringe: scouse, working-class, very male and laconically delighted by the obstacles life throws in his way.
The album is a distinctive one in the poet's discography: it's his only one on the Strata-East label, which was founded by a pair of important jazz musicians, the trumpeter Charles Tolliver and the pianist Stanley Cowell, in 1971, when they were frustrated by the abandonment of their music by major labels.
His world, admittedly, is a distinctive one.
His part of the world is a distinctive one; its deformation by the Soviet experience has left open wounds; and Paradjanov's work gets at the practical contradictions and inner conflicts that remain unresolved to this day.
"By the Sea" is far from a perfect work, even far from a great one; but it's a distinctive one; it's a composed movie, not mere pictures of actors acting, which already puts it far ahead of many of the year's presumptive Oscarizables.
We then compared these datasets against the atlas of facets obtained through our algorithm and determine if there is a distinctive one-to-one mapping between our facet and a gold standard facet.
Granted, it was a distinctive, quirky outfit, but one that had been run into the ground by mediocre executives who had no vision, no strategy – and no operating system to power its products into the future.
It is a distinctive culture, but one fostered by incentives and organization.
At the end of the row of buildings overlooking the shore is a distinctive yellow facade: one of two MobileMoney agents in this village of 5,000 people.
However, when viewed in conjunction with the landscape, the sun itself can be a distinctive landmark, albeit one whose relative position varies with the time of day (Fig. 2a; Bingman & Ioalè, 1989).
