Critics and composers have recognized that he created a new idiom, distinct from the Broadway musical and European opera.

Each passage, thus, has its distinct idiom.

For practical reasons (not to mention those of personal survival), Shostakovich began using two distinct musical idioms in which to compose.

Amid these influences, Dohnányi creates a distinct musical idiom that characterizes most of his mature compositions.

The clothes were worn in the offhand layers that, as Rei Kawakubo once pointed out, have inadvertently created a distinct modern idiom and a formal silhouette.

The local population are predominantly Greeks, using a distinct idiom of modern Greek.

The resulting Concerto For Group and Orchestra (in 1969) was one of rock's earliest attempts to fuse two distinct musical idioms.

Books and records, and those who create them, traffic in a distinct local idiom, presenting added problems for management when cultural barriers loom.

As explained above, the Barton-Nackman trick is a distinct idiom (that relies on the CRTP).

They capture Miss Washington early in her career, when jazz and rhythm and blues were not yet perceived as distinct idioms.