distinguishing feature

Respecting democracy, even when disappointed by its results — even, in this case, when many fear the consequences for the freedom and fairness of future elections — is a distinguishing feature between the two parties: one side does it and one side did not.

But the distinguishing feature of McCrimmon’s performance is that it brings us closer to the real Fanny Brice, the vaudeville comedian who struck it big in the Ziegfeld Follies.

And it’s his face emblazoned on each poster, making it indisputably clear that the distinguishing feature of a Neil Breen film is Neil Breen.

“His most distinguishing feature was his social empathy and imagination.”

But the sweeping proposals introduced by Lina Khan, the F.T.C. chair, and Jonathan Kanter, the Justice Department’s top antitrust official, have one key distinguishing feature: a road map for judges to understand the regulators’ more progressive views on trustbusting via footnotes about case law — an apparent rebuttal to those who say that the tougher approach is not grounded in U.S. rules.