Sentence examples for an extraordinary facility from inspiring English sources

Ludo has inherited from Sibylla an extraordinary facility for language.

He has an extraordinary facility with narrative: he can get a narrative rolling along faster than most writers, so that it is filled with its own mobile life.

He cultivated an extraordinary facility for reading chess games, absorbing pages of dense notation in seconds, and learned Russian just so that he could study Soviet chess literature.

He had an encyclopedic knowledge of their abilities, mannerisms, gifts and faces, matched by an extraordinary facility to place regional accents, both British and American.

Part of an answer must be that he had an extraordinary facility at written expression: the speed with which he composed at a typewriter was audibly that of an efficient copy typist.

For all Coward's antediluvian attitudes, he had an extraordinary facility with dialogue, grasped the comic potential of adverbs and used music inventively – in Family Album, a mourning Victorian family shed their fake piety and end up dancing a jig.

At his best, though, Veronese was an artist of extraordinary facility, one of the most inventive artists of an inventive age.

It demonstrates Wheeldon's extraordinary facility as a dance-maker, and the fluency and charm with which he draws movement from music.

Britten's extraordinary facility as a composer was, early on, felt to be akin to heartlessness or lack of profundity, and his homosexuality and his conscientious objector status in the second world war, after his return from America in 1942, only added to the mainstream suspicion that he was a rum cove, not to be trusted, outside the emotional or social mainstream.

But Mr. Pelli said his firm left "the exuberance of the design for the transit center, which is meant to be an extraordinary public facility".

Sacks also describes a rare congenital disorder called Williams syndrome, in which people never develop mentally beyond the abilities of a toddler, but have an extraordinary musical facility, playing back any piece on first hearing.