Word: distinct
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nevertheless, there is no doubt but that its failure to appear this year has been a distinct inconvenience, and has discovered a distinct need for its appearance next year. The Student Council, however, did not feel justified in hiring a non-graduate to put out the Register, for such a scheme has never met with success...
...trouble was, that the divine spark which entertainers sometimes catch and which draws the audience into a kindred state of mind, has either been completely extinguished or badly dampened in the sudden jump to Boston's early spring. Some of the acts had distinct possibilities but they never seemed to materialize. Also most of them were executed so crudely that it required some effort to be overcome by their humor. The exception was an operatic version of a sixteenth century "pick up" in the best New Yorkese of the twentieth century. Johnny Dooley carried off the comedy honors in this...
Every true vagabond feels a distinct urge toward the tropics. To sit before a typewriter and attempt to transcribe that urge is to essay the impossible. But nearly all residents of the more temperate zones have their dreams and visions of sunshine and palm-trees and tinkly temple-bells. From Kipling, Jack London, Stevenson and Conrad, we have gleaned bits of tropic lore, and still more recently the moving picture has brought to our very eyes the delights and delusions of life in perpetual summer. A very popular, successful, and excellent play of the last two years showed the dire...
...composition "Ave, Verum Corpus", but Josquin Des Pres, a fifteenth century musician of the Netherlands. Coming just at a time when the technique of counterpoint was being developed, the work is made up essentially of two melodies that float like delicate silver threads now in harmony and now distinct, but always clear until finally they disappear almost imperceptibly as if wafted away in a breath...
...characters of this novel are articulate; they speak in conventional phrase, but the authoress has exhibited considerable dexterity in uncovering, sometimes gently, often ironically, what they really mean and what emotions within are contending with the sham of their spoken words. It has been Miss Parish's distinct triumph that she has accomplished this largely within the speeches of of the characters themselves, and has not resorted to tedious obiter dicta. Futhermore, she has decorated their halting or dissembling utterances with the impressionistic detail that filled their minds at the time,--the flowers on the table, a wide sweep...