Even the panels, painted in raspberry-coloured paint, have their distinction....
"Distinction"-- Mrs.Durrant said that Jacob Flanders was "distinguished-looking." "Extremely awkward," she said, "but so distinguished-looking." Seeing him for the first time that no doubt is the word for him.

Lying back in his chair, taking his pipe from his lips, and saying to Bonamy: "About this opera now" (for they had done with indecency).

"This fellow Wagner" ...

distinction was one of the words to use naturally, though, from looking at him, one would have found it difficult to say which seat in the opera house was his, stalls, gallery, or dress circle.

A writer?
He lacked self-consciousness.