Sentence examples for a facility for language from inspiring English sources

If you have a facility for language and imagery and the sound of your voice pleases you, invisibility is not what you are after, and you can skip the rules.

He is one of those people who has a facility for languages, and can get by in two dozen.

Her conservatorium colleagues knew her as a gifted répétiteur with a facility for languages who could have stayed forever in an unglamorous behind-the-scenes role in out-of-the-way Sydney.

Trained in the arts and with a facility for foreign languages, including English, Mr. Kaplan emigrated to Israel in 1972 and then to the United States in 1977.

It's an intellectually demanding major, requiring the memorization and mastery of a large body of visual material, a facility for foreign languages, and the ability to write clearly and persuasively.

From these classical and heavenly influences, Madame Schiaparelli emerged with only a facility for modern languages and a fidelity to a twentieth-century onyx brooch on which diamonds trace the constellation of the Great Bear, under which sign she was born.

Ludo has inherited from Sibylla an extraordinary facility for language.

We are born with an innate facility for language but the specific language we learn depends on the environment in which we are raised.

He began writing in the 1930s and from the first demonstrated a fascination and facility for language as well as a gift for unemotional and acute psychological and sociological analysis.

"He was a very good student and he had a very good facility for language study," said Joseph Ellis, principal of Ridgefield High School, noting that Mr. Tobin was able to skip freshman French and also skipped a level of Spanish.

In the past, a candidate's facility for language has at times been cast in a negative light.