Sentence examples for astonishing knack from inspiring English sources
Her fellow protesters took to calling her "Mama" because of her astonishing knack for quickly putting together hot meals for large numbers of people.
These shows, like other elimination competitions, are clapping, stomping tributes to obstacles surmounted and pain sloughed off — "Dancing Queen for a Day" — and they have an astonishing knack for attracting talent under true duress.
THE choreographer and performance artist Ann Carlson has a knack for astonishing audiences with simplicity.
La Barjaquiere St Pierre de Vassols, Vaucluse Tel: (0)490 624800; fax: (0)490 624806 Doubles £62.50-£93.75 A typical seventeenth-century town house, it nevertheless has the knack of astonishing you: a swimming pool in the flowered entrance courtyard and then an indoor pool surrounded by trompe l'oeil visions of terracotta pots overflowing with colour.
And the most astonishing thing was her stillness - she had this knack of holding a stillness and then moving at an exquisitely timed moment that made you crumble".
What I think of as Bausch's second great gift — many people would place it first — was her scene-setting, her knack for creating stage pictures that were astonishing not just visually but also, it seemed, tactilely.
Still, a knack is a knack.
More than a knack, really.
