Sentence examples for ability to nail from inspiring English sources

Some showcase his eye for detail and his ability to nail down those details in velvety, Updikean prose.

What lifts him out of the ordinary is a remarkable gift for phrasemaking, an ability to nail an observation about British bureaucracy or lad culture with just the right snappy simile or macabre image.

The film, based on the memoir of the same name, is illuminated by Jolie's ability to nail the combination of charm mixed with zero empathy characteristic of sociopaths; she manages, simultaneously, to be sympathetic, unsympathetic, sexy, asexual, funny and scary.

Ciresi has a lovely ear for dialogue and the ability to nail the details in descriptions that are both funny and painfully accurate; the result is a book that manages to be simultaneously blunt and artful.

Tinkler has a different dance and music style to Fragapane but she displays some of that same acrobatic attacking quality and confidence that endeared the public to the multi-gold medal winning Commonwealth champion, not least the ability to nail a double somersault in a straight position with a full twist in the second somersault.

The bad news for the narrow, effete stylists you'll see championed in magazines like the New Yorker is that Kelman seems the only English-speaking writer working in literary fiction who's got the vision, bottle and technical ability to nail it.

There's the superhero stuff, of course: the flying, the immense strength, the ability to perfectly nail some parkour across a city's rooftops at the first time of asking without even scuffing a sneaker.

There's the super-hero stuff, of course: the flying, the immense strength, the ability to perfectly nail some parkour across a city's rooftops at the first time of asking without even scuffing a sneaker.

Sometimes people get used to masking their speaking voice, but singing is different; they don't have the conscious ability to change nailed down yet.

Blitz was pleased with Kay's original audition: "When Josh Kay came in to audition in New York, it was instantly obvious that he was perfect: smart, deadpan and with a natural ability to either nail the timing of the lines himself or mimic my reading to him".

The strength of the piece, particularly in the light of the current global crisis, is its ability to hit nails squarely on the head: in particular, Shawn skewers the myth of gradualist reform of the unequal distribution of the world's resources.