Sentence examples for whose distinction from inspiring English sources

It's a contradiction: individuality for the "superheads", whose distinction is everything, but homogeneity for everyone else.

Or rather, people whose distinction was unnoticed by the world at large, but which it became Swift's mission to portray in his books.

Indeed, the TV Cadillac drew more attention tha the supposed attraction, a Cadillac Eldorado whose distinction was that of being done up in white leather and ermine.

He remains a poet; one whose distinction is to reconcile aesthetic exploration with what happened to him in Now's decrepit train-and-van trips.

Since the demise a few months ago of "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" and its troubled investigative genius, Bobby Goren Vincent D'Onofrioo), television's top sleuths seem, on the whole, a depressingly ordinary lot, with the notable exception of Raylan Givens, in "Justified," whose distinction is that he is hilariously unconflicted about his own capacity for violence.

Though they crave lower taxes, the modern Tory right embodied by Liam Fox, the defence secretary, Tim Montgomerie, an influential blogger whose distinction between "mainstream" and "liberal" Conservatives is catching on, and backbenchers such as Mark Pritchard and Bernard Jenkin are not as preoccupied with economics as the "dry" Thatcherites of yesteryear.

Mr. Sturr is a post-traditionalist in a flailing scene whose distinctions don't matter the way they used to.

Austrian by birth, Drucker was a cultured humanist one of whose distinctions was having his books burned by the Nazis.

In fact Danvers is an unfancy and mostly unremarkable North Shore suburb, whose greatest distinction is that in the 17th century it was where the Salem witches came from.

One of the six newly displayed "landmarks objects," for example, is a telescope whose only distinction is that it was used by "America's first woman astronomer," Maria Mitchell.

Many of these are for obsessive-compulsives only: I've tried and failed to comprehend the CD cult of the late Romanian conductor Sergiu Celibidache, whose chief distinction was that he played everything more slowly than anyone else.