Word: distinctive
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This conclusion is both simplistic and unjust. It mistakes an indifference and impatience for tedious classwork with a spiritual malaise and selfish inwardness. These are two very distinct kinds of boredom--and they have very different implications. The first, the indifference, is a particular dissatisfaction, the outward sign that one's mind and one's priorities are elsewhere, for better or worse. The second type of boredom is a sickness. It is totalizing, spiritual and philosophical. College first-years these days are bored in the first sense only; they do not have their minds on their work because they...
Observers in the mostly male Forum audience noted Shelton's distinct style...
More and more, whether because of what movies are made or how they are marketed (or both), movie-going audiences seem to divide into two distinct camps, the art-house faction and the block-buster crowd. The two species have specific and trackable behavior patterns that make differentiation easy...
...journey that took Payanzo from living as a free spirit on a cross-country adventure to being a Harvard undergraduate raising a child is also a story about connecting two very distinct points...
...These were separate and distinct individuals," Grundy said. "They came into the world separately and they left the world separately...