The distinctive reverberation on the early hit records by Bill Haley & His Comets was created by recording the band under the domed ceiling of Decca's studio in New York, located in a former ballroom called The Pythian Temple.

After acquiring the strong coloring and other distinctive stylistic features of the Lombard school and — though he is not known to have travelled to Milan — somehow absorbing the superficial mannerisms of Leonardo ( Freedberg 1993: 117 ), he traveled to Siena before 1503, perhaps at the behest of agents of the Spannocchi family, and began with fresco cycles for Olivetan monks and a series of small Ovidian ceiling panels and a frieze depicting the career of Julius Caesar for Sigismondo Chigi at Palazzo Chigi.

defined four distinctive characteristics that must be met to conclude that a glass ceiling exists.

It has a distinctive red ceiling and raked floor giving an excellent view of the stage from anywhere in the auditorium.

All are located under a distinctive vaulted glass ceiling.

The settlement featured T-shaped doorways and stone disks at the bottom of ceiling support columns, both distinctive of Pueblan architecture.

And there is one other point in the Poetics that invites moral evaluation: Aristotle's notion that the distinctive function of tragedy is to purge one's emotions by arousing pity and fear.

Without losing the distinctive undertow of Brahmsian rhythm, the pacing is firm and the over-all performance has a tightly knit quality that makes for maximum cumulative effect.

It is because each side has sought to implement its distinctive theological belief through legislation and thus indirectly force its belief, or at least the practical consequences thereof, upon others.

Brooklyn College is distinctive for not having an official drinking place.

Their characteristic experience is that of the individual at an altar or a shrine rather than that of a continuing social group with a distinctive kind of fellowship.

One of the most distinctive characteristics of the Tubulidentata is their teeth.

The shape of the flowers is very distinctive, making orchids easy to recognize.

The Aramaic alphabet is adapted from the Phoenician alphabet and became distinctive from it by the 8th century BCE.

Hearing is one of the most crucial means of survival in the animal world, and speech is one of the most distinctive characteristics of human development and culture.

It is alphabetic, with a letter or diacritic for every phonemic ( distinctive ) hand shape, orientation, motion, and position, though it lacks any representation of facial expression, and is better suited for individual words than for extended passages of text.

The debate between Calvin's followers and Arminius's followers is distinctive of post-Reformation church history.

Although the family ( Amaranthaceae ) is distinctive, the genus has few distinguishing characters among the 70 species included.

The primary way in which Australian English is distinctive from other varieties of English is through its unique pronunciation.

Nonetheless Canadian English also features many British English items and is often described as a unique blend of the two larger varieties alongside several distinctive Canadianisms.

They may notice a distinctive noise from its engine or the number of vapour trails it is leaving.

No matter how much help he had, Capp insisted on drawing and inking the characters ' faces and hands — especially of Abner and Daisy Mae — himself, and his distinctive touch is often discernible.

Adjacent to this area is the Rotes Rathaus ( City Hall ), with its distinctive red-brick architecture.

The bassoon is a non-transposing instrument known for its distinctive tone color, wide range, variety of character and agility.

Such literature is " marked by distinctive literary features, particularly prediction of future events and accounts of visionary experiences or journeys to heaven, often involving vivid symbolism.

Yet, as Lemke and O ’ Connor point out, The Book of Lamentations, while adapting several traditional literary, historical, and cultural Near Eastern elements, is a unique literary composition, scripted to a specific historical situation, in response to an historical catastrophe, addressing the survivors of this catastrophe in a distinctive religious context.

Similarly, frets on earlier balalaikas were made of animal gut and tied to the neck so that they could be moved around by the player at will ( as is the case with the modern saz, which allows for the microtonal playing distinctive to Turkish and Central Asian music ).

alt = An engraved print showing a man in a distinctive naval uniform dragging two crocodiles with human heads.

The two forms of government are distinctive and individually remarkable in conception.

" Period " also suggests a linearity of development, whereas it has not been uncommon for two or more distinctive cultural approaches to be active at the same time.

These two groups of viruses share a distinctive 12-fold arrangement of subunits in the portal complex.

In fact, the very existence of the Alphabet plays, or rather the absence of an equivalent edition for Sophocles and Aeschylus, could distort our notions of distinctive Euripidean qualitiesmost of his least ' tragic ' plays are in the Alphabet edition and possibly the other two tragedians would appear just as genre-bending as this " restless experimenter " if we possessed more than their ' select ' editions.

There are two distinctive designs of gambeson ; those designed to be worn beneath another armour, and those designed to be worn as independent armour.

They have two blowholes on top of their head, which can create a distinctive V-shaped blow at the surface in calm wind conditions.

A distinctive feature is the two prong, cutaway bow section.

The genetic pattern indicates Indigenous Americans experienced two very distinctive genetic episodes ; first with the initial-peopling of the Americas, and secondly with European colonization of the Americas.

Spain also produced its own distinctive form of opera, known as zarzuela, which had two separate flowerings: one from the mid-17th century through the mid-18th century, and another beginning around 1850.

He was classically depicted as a green-skinned man with a pharaoh's beard, partially mummy-wrapped at the legs, wearing a distinctive crown with two large ostrich feathers at either side, and holding a symbolic crook and flail.

Regardless, the Indian cards have many distinctive features: they are round, generally hand painted with intricate designs, and comprise more than four suits — often as many as thirty two, like a deck in the Deutsches Spielkarten-Museum, painted in the Mewar, a city in Rajasthan, between the 18th and 19th century.

The prosperity enjoyed during the first two centuries ( 1540 – 1740 ) while contributing to colonial growth ; the placing of extensive regional judicial authority ( Real Audiencia ) as part of its jurisdiction ; and the pivotal role it played at the height of the Spanish Empire-the first modern global empire-helped define a distinctive sense of autonomy and of regional or national identity within Panama well before the rest of the colonies.

In a 2004 paper, Jouve used a different method of analysis and recovered the same result, showing that the " distinctive " features of P. kochi were age-related, and using mathematical comparison to show that the two forms are different growth stages of the same species.

The sustain at the bottom end is particularly striking, and by routing the two outputs from the stereo " Rick-O-Sound " output, the brighter bridge pick up through a guitar rig and the bassier neck pickup through a bass setup, a particularly distinctive bass sound is produced.

Each of the two sides corresponds to one player ; they are referred to here as light and dark after the sides of Othello pieces, but " heads " and " tails " would identify them equally well, so long as each marker has sufficiently distinctive sides.

The FSK signals are audible on a communications radio receiver equipped with a BFO, and have a distinctive " beedle-eeeedle-eedle-eee " sound, usually starting and ending on one of the two tones (" idle on mark ").

Shrines are fronted by a distinctive Japanese gate ( 鳥居, torii ) made of two uprights and two crossbars denoting the separation between common space and sacred space.

Simon reported that he was often asked about the distinctive horn sections featured so effectively on the first two albums: people wanted to know how they had achieved such memorable sounds.

Their distinctive garment was a scapular of two strips of dark cloth, worn on the breast and back, and fastened at the shoulders.

According to Austin's original formulation, a performative is a type of utterance characterized by two distinctive features:

Their headgear was a distinctive hat with two points, popularly called the lucerna.

Kant further stated that hatred of mankind can take two distinctive forms, aversion from men ( Anthropophobia ) or enmity towards them.