Sentence examples similar to a minor gift from inspiring English sources

He summed up his position succinctly in "Awopbop": "What does third-rate Art have on Superpop?" He then went on to pan Dylan ("a minor talent with a major gift for self-hype"), to savage the "White Album" in The New York Times ("boring almost beyond belief"), to liken the spread of hippie culture into the suburban middle class to Pepsi — fizzy, bland, second-rate.

The way I see him, he's a minor talent with a major gift for self-hype".

Still, they took the small minor gift and mumbled a "shukran" for thanks.

He had the precious minor gift of being able to inspire without intimidating.

Keen to 'fit in', he foolishly accepts a minor 'gift' of money from a senior police officer without knowing what it is for; he has committed a relatively minor legal infraction.

A small gift.

Give a small gift.

As noted in a biomedical context by Kupersanin (2002), however, "many studies have shown that even minor gifts have an impact on clinical decisions".

To qualify for the annual exclusion from gift taxes, a gift to a minor must satisfy these conditions: –The recipient must receive the property outright by age 21.

In blue states — defined as those that voted for John Kerry — even the existence of a matching gift had only a minor effect.

While gift-giving of this sort was common in European diplomacy, the expensive present caused a minor scandal in America.