Word: distinctively
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact that the blades were still intact after impact with the Yacht Club Building indicates that transmission failure is a distinct possibility, Yarman said...
Among the oldest types of art is personal decoration-ornaments such as beads, bracelets, pendants and necklaces. The body was certainly one of the first surfaces for symbolic expression. What did such symbols communicate? Presumably the wearer's difference from others, as a member of a distinct group, tribe or totemic family: that he was a bison-man, say, and not a reindeer...
...Right now we're going game by game," junior Kirk Nielsen said. "We split up our season into three distinct periods, and we're 0-1 in the third [portion...
Part of the problem is the way the exhibition is set up. Paintings and mixed-media pieces are neatly separated from each other on white walls illuminated by track lighting; the rooms, distributed over three floors, are distinct and geometric; and in general there is an atmosphere of preserved sterility, even banality. On the landing, under Steven Evans' homage to homosexuals persecuted by the Nazi regime, is an incongruous dried flower arrangement, left by oversight. One of the best pieces in the exhibition, Christian Boltanski's Le Tiroire (1988), is obscured by the reflection of the main door...
McGuire also writes that "a lasting marriage depends upon each partner's proper understanding of his or her role in that partnership." "These roles are complementary yet distinct, as reflected in the act of intercourse itself." He goes on to say that coeducation confuses these roles, and ends up creating dykes and queers. The sexual act is no typology of gender roles. A look at the sexual act can only show that McGuire's is a limited, particular and constructed understanding. For example, do we say that the penis breaks in while the vagina remains passive and receptive, a silent...