Sentence examples for at a given thing from inspiring English sources

He is the ringleader of what might be called the Expert Performance Movement, a loose coalition of scholars trying to answer an important and seemingly primordial question: When someone is very good at a given thing, what is it that actually makes him good?

Anders Ericsson, a 58-year-old psychology professor at Florida State University, says he believes strongly in "none of the above". He is the ringleader of what might be called the Expert Performance Movement, a loose coalition of scholars trying to answer an important and seemingly primordial question: When someone is very good at a given thing, what is it that actually makes him good?

The nineteen-nineties were a cynical time for New York City — the humorless, clenched-jaw Giuliani days when it wasn't at all a given that things would work out.

The well-known argument at the beginning of the first edition attack on the second paralogism (A352) focuses on the unity of consciousness at a given time (among other things) and what can (or rather, cannot) be inferred from it about the nature of the mind (a topic to which we will return below).

But as she likes to tell those elementary school students, you never know what you will end up enjoying or being good at unless you give things a try.

Slavic accents, Tourette's-like tics and more are thrown into the mishmash, at times giving things the desperate feel of a bad vaudeville act.

Some think it engages in metaphysical multiple vision, seeing a multiplicity of things at a given place and time where there is plausibly only one.

Madeleine beside me touched toes and reached her arms in the air with a pretty equanimity, as if whatever she was doing at a given moment was the only graceful thing possible.

Often, heroism is accidental -- someone just happens to be in a given place at a given moment where doing the reasonable thing is redolent with drama.

What the patients and the managers have in common is their concern for the how things stand at a given moment, to be able to draw a profile of the situation.

The diurnal rhythm constitutes "baseline" or "basal" HPA activity, representing the amounts of cortisol that would be expected to be circulating through the blood at a given time of day, all other things being equal.