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Conventional forms of narrative allow for different points of view, but for this book I wanted a structure whereby each of the main characters contributed a distinctive version of the story.
Penelope Lively
Book
Distinctive
Characters
Structure
Points
Allow
Main
Narrative
Version
Different
Wanted
Conventional
Whereby
Story
Forms
View
Each
In picking Gen. Jim Mattis for Defense secretary, President-elect Donald Trump has said that he found his 'Gen. George Patton.' Yet that label may not really capture what makes Mattis a distinctive choice.
Peter Bergen
Defense
Jim
Secretary
Distinctive
Gen
He
Picking
Makes
Said
George
His
Trump
Label
Donald
Donald Trump
May
Patton
Really
Choice
Capture
Found
The distinctive feature of my family was intolerance of sensitivity and emotion - 'Everything's great, it all has to be great all the time and why do you have to spoil it?' Whereas probably the most fundamental and important thing to me has been defending my right to tell the truth about how I feel.
Rachel Cusk
Truth
Time
Great
Family
Me
You
Important
Everything
Distinctive
Intolerance
Tell
Has-Been
About
Feature
Emotion
Spoil
Feel
Most
How
Important Thing
Been
Whereas
Sensitivity
Fundamental
Why
Right
Thing
Defending
Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.
Robert Browning
God
Alone
Man
Progress
Beast
Mark
Distinctive
Hopes
Finds
Partly
Wholly
There's a great deal of tension between so many kind of distinctive and restrictive female archetypes and images in the world. When you play with the archetypes, you get free.
Roisin Murphy
Great
You
World
Great Deal
Free
Distinctive
Kind
Archetypes
Restrictive
Tension
Between
Deal
Female
Get
Many
Play
Images
I really value distinctive movies, movies that feel that they came from a person that was really something that they had conceived and they made and is a reflection of who they are.
Roman Coppola
Reflection
Value
Made
Distinctive
Something
Had
Feel
Conceived
Came
Person
Movies
Really
Who
The martyrologies are catalogues in which are to be found the names of the saints with the days and places of their deaths and, generally, with the distinctive character of their sanctity and with an historic summary of their lives.
Sabine Baring-Gould
Character
Sanctity
Summary
Distinctive
Generally
Days
Names
Saints
Deaths
Historic
Which
Places
Found
Lives
When I hear someone, instantaneously, I'm like, 'Who's singing?' You're giving people so much of yourself, and my voice is the most natural, distinctive tool I have. It's up to me to express myself on a wider scale than just writing vocal melodies and lyrics.
Sampha
Myself
Me
You
Natural
Yourself
People
Writing
Giving
Singing
Tool
Lyrics
Melodies
Distinctive
Scale
Someone
Vocal
Voice
Instantaneously
Like
Most
Hear
Up
Than
Just
Much
Express
Wider
Mass application of technological innovations, which constitutes much of the distinctive substance of modern economic growth, is closely connected with the further progress of science, in its turn the basis for additional advance in technology.
Simon Kuznets
Technology
Science
Progress
Innovations
Additional
Further
Distinctive
Economic
Economic Growth
Advance
Mass
Closely
Modern
Substance
Which
Turn
Much
Connected
Growth
Technological
Application
Basis
With the variety of fields within economics, broadly conceived and the increasing specialization of scholarly world, the award of a Nobel Memorial Prize honors not only the individual scholar but, implicitly, also a special field or a distinctive method.
Simon Kuznets
World
Economics
Field
Increasing
Honors
Distinctive
Memorial
Only
Variety
Individual
Scholar
Scholarly
Nobel
Implicitly
Conceived
Also
Within
Method
Prize
Fields
Special
Award
Specialization
I think I have my own sort of distinctive swing, for sure. I think that's something that comes really natural to me, to push against the beat and kind of explore a triplet feel behind everything just to see what that feels like.
Stone Gossard
Me
Natural
Own
Think
Everything
Distinctive
Kind
See
Something
My Own
Beat
Push
Feel
Feels
Like
Sort
Sure
Behind
Just
Against
Really
Explore
Swing
We must consider the distinctive characters and the general nature of plants from the point of view of their morphology, their behavior under external conditions, their mode of generation, and the whole course of their life.
Theophrastus
Life
Nature
Generation
Behavior
Plants
Consider
Distinctive
Characters
Must
General
Point
Point Of View
Course
Conditions
Mode
View
Whole
External
Part of it has to do with this business of being approached in public. I have a distinctive look - it's partly the glasses I wear - and people seem to remember me once they've seen me.
Todd Solondz
Me
Business
People
Remember
Glasses
Seen
Once
Distinctive
Wear
Seem
Remember Me
Part
Look
Partly
Being
Public
I have not been on any river that has more of a distinctive personality than does the Missouri River. It's a river that immediately presents to the traveler, 'I am a grandfather spirit. I have a source; I have a life.'
William Least Heat-Moon
Life
Personality
Distinctive
Immediately
Spirit
More
River
Missouri
Does
Am
Been
Source
Than
Any
Grandfather
Traveler
Presents
Apart from differentiating our spaces with design, we also look for buildings that have distinctive character. We make sure every seat is a good one.
Miguel McKelvey
Good
Character
Design
Every
Our
Distinctive
Look
Also
Make
Sure
Buildings
Spaces
Apart
Seat
Mad World's distinctive percussion intro was played on a Roland CR-78 drum machine. We first recorded it at twice the speed, but it sounded great slowed down.
Curt Smith
Great
World
First
Down
Speed
Machine
Distinctive
Mad
Recorded
Percussion
Drum
Twice
Played
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