Though a distinctly minor talent, she did not deserve oblivion.

There were faults in plenty, he saw, but all of a distinctly minor character, so superbly had the surgical work been done.

The boy became an object of desultory interest, but only in a distinctly minor way.

Desserts, all imports, were distinctly minor league.

A distinctly minor noble such as myself wouldn't even get past the door.

Jerome Robbins was the only American master featured, and he was represented by the luscious but distinctly minor "Other Dances."

In fact the only difficulty, he reported, was a distinctly minor one concerning the division of spoils.

But Shawn, who died in 1972, is a distinctly minor figure in modern dance today.

Or take what Johnson did, himself, in his life of the distinctly minor writer Richard Savage.

MOST of my best local-color book buys suddenly appear without warning, calling to me seductively, if in a distinctly minor key.