Sentence examples for ability was to from inspiring English sources

His audience laughed at them, but Letterman's most endearing ability was to laugh at himself.

Former ITV director of programmes David Liddiment said Morgan's exceptional ability was to "build an imagined but completely convincing narrative around real life events".

"His great ability was to twin urban contemporary culture with high-art motifs," said Brooke Davis Anderson, a curator at the American Folk Art Museum in Manhattan, which has 20 of Mr. Young's pieces in its collection, 14 donated by the Rubell Family Collection in Miami, which bought the entire contents of Mr. Young's studio, as many as 3,000 pieces, in 1999.

Carrier and his colleagues propose that one way theropods enhanced their turning ability was to keep their back arched, tail raised, and forelimbs tucked back against the body.

Beckett's miraculous ability was to reduce all description until he reached the thing described.

Having said that, his exceptional ability was to be fully involved with the laboratory research indeed clearly happiest when, changed into his corduroys and a sweater, he was at his desk or chatting by a laboratory bench in the Institute of Molecular Medicine (now Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine).

"The real ability is to serve it up.

Asomugha's primary ability is to force quarterbacks to improvise.

In my opinion, his biggest ability is to take the ball very early".

"I thought, 'Why not work with people whose main ability is to communicate?' " he recalled.

What if that ability were to be lost?