It hasdistinctive features which decidedly justify and make valuable its existence.
The apotheosis is reached by the scaffold; characters have distinctive features, which engrave them as eternal types in the memory of men.
All the histories touch the story, but for original or distinctive treatment compare Smith’s New York, ii.
It was intended in the original plan of revision to preserve as far as possible the distinctive characteristics of the book.
Even recent forms of the same or an allied genus have no distinctive characters sufficiently important to mark geological horizons.
A moment's inspection of our series of portraits will convince the skeptic that this trait, next to the prevalent dark hair and eyes and the swarthy skin, is the most distinctive among the chosen people.
We should be able to trace their origin if they possess any distinctive head form, either to the one continent or the other, with comparative certainty.
Herein lies the real distinctive quality about it, rather than in any convexity of outline.
The clergy are the dominant class; and of these the friars or brethren of the orders exert an evil influence, while the Jesuits are believed to be a distinctive power for good.
They are thus especially fitted to aid the geologist, as each has distinctive features and an abiding place of its own in geological time.
Popularly the humped or hook nose constitutes the most distinctivefeature of the Jewish face.
The differences in the treatment of the verse which are of greatest importance as distinctive of the several periods of Shakespeare's work are the following: § =165.
These are the five chief distinctive marks of Shakespeare's verse in the different periods of his dramatic work.
We hear of them first in the ninth century, when they appeared as a section of the great horde of the Shiwei, attracting attention by their great strength and extraordinary courage, characteristics to which they owed their distinctive title.
There are forty regiments of infantry, numbered as ours were, but known also by distinctive names, generally those of the locality in which each was originally raised.
Schiller has accomplished it in great perfection; the whole scene of affairs was evidently clear before his own eye, and he did not want expertness to discriminate and seize its distinctive features.
From the scanty and too much neglected field of his biography, a few slight facts and indications may still be gleaned; slight, but distinctive of him as an individual, and not to be despised in a penury so great and so unmerited.
All will see that I cannot pass these by on this occasion; for not to speak of them would be to present a portrait in which the most distinctive features were wanting.
To him, more, perhaps, than to any other person, is she indebted for her most distinctive opinions.
This enfranchised Republic, setting an example to mankind, cannot continue to sanction an odious oligarchy whose single distinctive element is color.
It was a proclamation of equality between the National Government on the one side and Rebels on the other, and no plausible word can obscure this distinctive character.
Intelligence, it is said, is his distinctive gift.
In the midst of his distinctive labours he had found time to study the financial disorder at home, and had submitted to Napoleon a new plan of a bank.
Where one succeeds another, the uppermost presents sinuous cliff walls, hundreds of miles in length and superbly distinctive in color and carving.
The history of his career, his origin, his process of study, his choice of subjects in all his great works, his rise and triumph as an artist, all entitle him to this distinctive appellation.
We really don't deserve our distinctive phrase as much as they deserve theirs.
That word "nursing-father" is peculiar in coupling the distinctive function of the mother in caring for the babe with the word father.
Hundreds of them threw aside the blanket—the distinctive badge of their wild state; schools were well attended, and farms were well tilled.
Still, in the organism the relation to past happenings has a quite distinctive form which we deal with in terms of heredity.
Now the successive products, in which this physico-chemical type of relatedness obtains, have certain new and distinctive properties which are not merely the algebraic sum of the properties of the component things prior to synthesis.
The absolutely distinctive feature of the molecule is the specific relatedness of these atoms.
An attempt has been made to bring together literature that would exhibit the range, the divergence, the distinctive character of the writings and points of view upon a single topic.
It is only slowly and laboriously, in fruitful contact, co-operation, and conflict with his fellows, that he attains the distinctive qualities of human nature.
As such it is hardly a descriptive term since there does not seem to be any distinctive mark about the actions which men have at different times and places called moral or immoral.
All social problems turn out finally to be problems of group life, although each group and each type of group has its own distinctive problems.
It is apparent that the different animal groups behave in ways that are distinctive and characteristic, ways which are predetermined in the organism to an extent that is not true of human beings.
The distinctive contribution of Lotze was his recognition that interaction of the parts implies the unity of the whole since external action implies internal changes in the interacting objects.
In its distinctive form it came into existence in the rationalistic period which accompanied the Renaissance.
Consensus even more than co-operation or corporate action is the distinctive mark of human society.
Our progress in the arts and sciences and in the creation of values in general has been dependent on specialists whose distinctive worth was precisely their divergence from other individuals.
Privacy and publicity, "society" and solitude, public ends and private enterprises, are each and all distinctive factors in human society everywhere.
The fact that the Japanese bears in his features a distinctive racial hallmark, that he wears, so to speak, a racial uniform, classifies him.
What traits, temperament, mentality, manner, or character, are distinctive of members of your family?
It is finding its own distinctive voice, and through its own books and papers and magazines, and through its own social organizations, is at once giving utterance to its discontent and making known its demands.
The one thing is the presence in the community of a distinctive national character, the other is the presence of strong national sentiment.
By this time incessant wars and sufferings had formed a distinctive type of character and lit up a flame of national feeling which has burnt strongly ever since.
And just as on no side has it anything that can be called a natural frontier, neither have its inhabitants any distinctive quality or character to distinguish them sharply from other peoples.
In most of the other republics there seems to be much less that can be called distinctive of each.
Chile and Argentina have each of them a distinctive national quality which so marks them off from their neighbours that even the passing traveller can discern it.
In this latter set of cases, an observer who studies the community may discover nothing that constitutes a distinctive national character.
The white man, or the mestizo of the upper class who considers himself to be white, wears a European cloth coat, and usually for warmth's sake a cloak or overcoat above it; this is the distinctive note of social pretension.
In a few of these areas there existed what might be called the rudiments of a distinctive character belonging to the inhabitants of that area and marking them off from those who dwell in other divisions.
When we try to form an idea of that which is most distinctive in the American temperament, we need not inquire what Americans actually are.
The distinctive thing in an aristocracy is not the fact that certain people enjoy privileges.
A different decorative treatment is used at each station, including a distinctive color scheme.
The distinctive value of the novel among written works of art is in characterisation, and the charm of a well-conceived character lies, not in knowing its destiny, but in watching its proceedings.
Their jerrymandered electoral methods are like wool in their ears, and the rejection of Tweedledum for Tweedledee is taken as a "mandate" for Tweedledee's distinctive brand of political unrealities.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "distinctive" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
