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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a superb ear" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who has an exceptional ability to hear or discern sounds, particularly in music or language.
Example: "As a musician, she has a superb ear for melody and harmony, allowing her to compose beautiful pieces effortlessly."
Alternatives: "an excellent ear" or "a keen ear".
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He has a superb ear for speech rhythms, a generally astute sense of selective detail, and a natural storyteller's command of narrative pacing.
Though Smiley too often uses dialogue to tutor readers on the historical background, she has a superb ear for down-home understatement, as when a shattering death is summed up as "Just over a year ago.
On a more serious note, I have nothing but admiration for John, a man who doesn't get out much but who has a superb ear for the meaningless drivel many of us use when pretending to communicate.
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He also has a superb eye and ear for emotional complexity, for the little details of couplehood (preparing to go out, Jay wants to tie Stuart's tie for him) and for the inner lives of human beings trying to work through major life challenges.
It had been picked for its "superb ear for dialogue and fantastically assured control of a panoramic plot".
Because "Revolutionary Road" became the decade's great, terrifying indictment of suburban surrender, Yates's stories are often likened to John Cheever's, but they are closer to J. F. Powers's: the same richly restrained prose, luxuriously lined but plain to the touch; the same anxious comedy; the same very cold, appraising eye; and the same superb ear for the foolish histrionics of speech.
Followed by a superb meal, of course.
No member of the Philharmonic will argue with the proposition that Mr. Maazel is a master of conducting technique, that he is a maestro with a tremendous grasp of the score and a superb set of ears.
McGill was a superb draughtsman with an ear for the slippery power of language.
More to the point, Edelman is a superb interviewer, displaying an ear for the good quote and an ability to get his subjects to relax and more or less level with him.
Heather Dunbar on the campaign stump, making a superb speech that, you'd think, makes the steam come out of Walmart's real-life PR Johnnies' ears.
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