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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a fine ear" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe someone who has a good ability to hear and appreciate music or sounds, often in the context of musical talent or sensitivity to nuances in sound. Example: "As a musician, she has a fine ear for melody and harmony, allowing her to create beautiful compositions."
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Ms. Devlin's screenplay shows a fine ear for everyday conversation.
But Mr Harper is a cautious man, with a fine ear for Canadian tolerances.
Her companion, Howard Sloane, said the five-year-old had a fine ear for music.
He also has a fine ear for camp and for snobbery.
We Need New Names introduces a young writer with a fine ear for dialogue.
Ms. Hutchinson makes a few missteps, but has a fine ear for dialogue.
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In less skilled hands this would be a recipe for a dog's dinner, but Salter's fine ear and eye, his sure sense of what makes even a very slight anecdote worth telling, make these proliferating stories both individually enjoyable, and together extremely moving, especially as the passage of time begins to register itself on the cast.
Schönwerth — a man whom the Grimm brothers praised for his "fine ear" and accuracy as a collector — published three volumes of folk customs and legends in the mid-nineteenth century, but the books soon began gathering dust on library shelves.
But to all this I would like to add, and I believe it central to the man, that he had the fine ear and taste of a poet.
Another critic, in the Wellesley Alumnae Magazine, mentioned Crawford's "fine ear for words and a genuine lyrical gift, already apparent to those who know his oratorio [based on T.S. Eliot's] Ash Wednesday, or his many songs...a lively sense of humor, and...a keen instinct for dramatic pacing".
And she has a fine, jaundiced ear for conversational understatement.
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