All 25 Uses of

distinct
in
The Sunlight Dialogues

He heard it distinctly, or felt it through the walls and beams of the house and the dark packed earth below the grass.†
Chpt 1 *

distinctly = in a manner that is clear, easily noticed, and/or identifiable as different or separate

He could hear their voices distinctly, but not the words, partly because of the radio there with them, partly because the old, high-ceilinged room was full of echoes.†
Chpt 1

He'd gone there it must be a hundred times before and since, but that time stood out in his mind even now—the gleam of the polished bars directly in the path of the morning sun, the distinct grillwork of shadows in the cell falling away toward the canvas pallet and the metal John and the boy.†
Chpt 3

distinct = clear, easily noticed, and/or identifiable as different or separate

He thought: "Snow-apple," and was distinctly pleased that he still remembered the name.†
Chpt 3

distinctly = in a manner that is clear, easily noticed, and/or identifiable as different or separate

Nick Slater's face rose up in his mind, remarkably distinct, the hair as long as a woman's, coal black and slicked down like the hair of one of those motorcycle people at a dance.†
Chpt 3

distinct = clear, easily noticed, and/or identifiable as different or separate

"A singular ambition, distinctly American," he said.†
Chpt 3

distinctly = in a manner that is clear, easily noticed, and/or identifiable as different or separate

To Will Hodge's eye every detail outside was unnaturally distinct, the way things look in your childhood or after a death in the house.†
Chpt 3

distinct = clear, easily noticed, and/or identifiable as different or separate

In the glassy water the reflection of the moon was as clean and distinct as the moon itself, but off to the right, where the hills rose more sharply and there were locusts and skeletal crabapple trees, there was fog moving in, coming onto the water slowly, tentatively, like a skater trying the thickness of ice on a pond.†
Chpt 4

Her left breast still tingled from his touch, and all that he had said ran through her mind, distinct and frightening now, like words in a dream.†
Chpt 4

The voice at the other end of the prowlcar radio is not sullen or hostile, and though prowlcars have their distinctive smell—the same smell as school buses or taxicabs or any other vehicle regularly and without any trace of affection serviced and stored in a large garage—at least prowlcars do not, like cellblocks, stink.†
Chpt 5

distinctive = clear, easily noticed, and/or identifiable as different or separate -- sometimes to indicate a difference that is excellent

She had a distinct impression that the room they stood in was absolutely dark, or that Editha Woodworth was behind a screen, so that the smile and nod could not possibly be perceived.†
Chpt 6

distinct = clear, easily noticed, and/or identifiable as different or separate

Distinctly.†
Chpt 7

distinctly = in a manner that is clear, easily noticed, and/or identifiable as different or separate

Now he distinctly remembered the door he'd gone through: the front door at Woodworths', but the door as it had been long ago, when he was younger.†
Chpt 9

His shadow, black on the lightning-white wall, showed every hair distinct.†
Chpt 12

distinct = clear, easily noticed, and/or identifiable as different or separate

He patted her again, exactly as before, but she had the impression, too distinct to be wrong, that he'd suddenly moved back from her, physically even, though he hadn't moved a muscle.†
Chpt 14

There was no need, no use for such rage and pain as they suffered except that it made his serenity distinct.†
Chpt 15

The lines of light coming through the barn wall looked soft and alive, and where the light touched old straw and dust it made everything sharp and distinct.†
Chpt 15

Thus in the moment of the catastrophe sights and sounds are unusually clear, unusually violent and distinct, an imposition.†
Chpt 19

The silo was dark, its silhouette distinct and imposing against the luminous gray of twilight.†
Chpt 21

She listened to him swallowing, pulling his tie snug, and then the almost inaudible yet to her ears distinct scrape of stiffly starched cloth as he put his cufflinks on.†
Chpt 23

She could feel Luke's presence distinctly, unquestionably alive; but she knew he was dead.†
Chpt 23

distinctly = in a manner that is clear, easily noticed, and/or identifiable as different or separate