Sentence examples for were distinctly not from inspiring English sources

Even in the nineteen-eighties, some things were Reaganesque and some things were distinctly not.

Mobil, which was once Standard Oil of New York, and Mr. Murray were distinctly not of Southern oil-patch stock.

Yet chance operations were distinctly not a significant part of Western compositional techniques until Cage championed them in 1951, first with his piano piece, "Music of Changes," quickly followed by the notorious silence piece "4'33".

In contrast, the paralogous sequences PtdHB7 and PtdHB8 have very dissimilar profiles and were distinctly not preferential to secondary xylem.

That's distinctly not happening.

This is distinctly not Clinton-era thinking.

Nominees are distinctly not high-minded.

This was distinctly not her scene.

His pedigree is distinctly not East Coast elite.

Desserts here are distinctly not of the Ironbound, except for an unusually dense and satisfying flan.

These references to classical beauty, however, are outnumbered by citations of equally antique motifs that are distinctly not classical.