One wonders where her formidable gift for social satire will take her next.
When she's pursuing her formidable gift for the charmingly inconsequential – to the point where it sometimes feels as if she's got a slightly bored-looking guy with a bass drum and hi-hat permanently stationed behind her, ready to go ba-boom-tish! every few sentences – she's also making an argument.
She displays a formidable comic gift — deadpan spontaneity with a puckish wit whirling behind it — along with that rarest of traits, star power.
Placed next to Reagan, Obama presents a picture of a politician with formidable gifts and vision, but weak and indecisive leadership.
Sondra Radvanovsky, a soprano of formidable gifts, brings the grouping back to New York for the first time since then, starting with a run of "Anna Bolena," the composer's sympathetic portrait of Henry VIII's second wife.
That dismissal typified a career that has mixed occasional extreme highs with far too many anticlimactic lows, but what came before was a reminder of formidable gifts.
Was it unfair for the tennis critics of the early 1990's to lampoon the young Agassi as a Vegas lounge act, to castigate him for not maximizing his formidable gifts according to a schedule they set?
To file Rakoff under "essayist, brilliant" would be to overlook his formidable gifts as a reporter.
Yet you do not attain the international prominence of a Zubin Mehta without having formidable gifts.
At its strongest, her new book, "Farewell, Fred Voodoo," showcases all her formidable gifts as a reporter: her love of, and intimate familiarity with, Haiti; her sense of historical perspective; and her eye for the revealing detail.
