It is Nisenbaum's awareness of and capacity to synthesise two culturally distinct traditions of painting while raising their stakes in novel ways (not to mention that she is also a great colourist) that makes her someone worthy of special attention. (artreview.com)
Kimball's Orators and Philosophers traces two distinct traditions in liberal education. (religion-online.org)
This has neither been a merger nor a take over — biology and chemistry are still distinct disciplines with distinct traditions, distinct cultures of discussion and thinking, and distinct departments. (sciencemag.org)