Word: distinguishedly
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...heavy stress on winning in our society is most clearly seen in sports. In the real world victory is often a muddled quantity, but in athletics it's simple to distinguish winners from losers. Winners are the ones who score the most points or goals or runs, who run the fastest, who jump the highest or farthest, or who take the most sets. And he losers are the ones...
...were ruled acceptable. Death is a constitutional punishment, the court decided, not cruel or unusual as long as the judge and jury have given due consideration to the murderer's character and the particulars of his crime, the "mitigating factors."* Against these are weighed the aggravating factors that distinguish capital murder from ordinary homicide...
...failure to give equal play to Soviet denials of a role in the assassination attempt, L'Humanite piously said, was "serious, serious for democracy." Added the newspaper, in one of 1982's most ironic statements: "When you only hear one bell struck, you can't distinguish truth from falsehood. When you're only given one opinion, always the same, it's your independence of mind, your chance to judge for yourself, that's threatened...
...hard to praise a street movie like 48 Hours. You sound mean and hissing, like Peter Lorre. "But 'low-brow trash' is such an ugly word. I prefer to call it 'escapism'. You despise me, Rick, don't you?" On the other hand, it is necessary to distinguish intelligently among Hollywood's blood'n' guts action offerings...
...residents of Lowell House have been subjected to 46 false alarms so far this fall. While living in the midst of the renovations has been convenient, the smoke detector's seeming inability to distinguish between a six-alarm inferno and a cockroach breaking wind has become an intolerable imposition. It is incredible that something that disrupts the live of four hundred and fifty people has been allowed to continue this long...