Sentence examples for being given a gift from inspiring English sources

I'm sure it's a fine little city, but they are being given a gift they are incapable of appreciating.

I doubt he thought there was anything unusual in being given a gift worth several times more than the lifetime earnings of the Indian hotel employees whose job it is to valet-park the sports cars, limousines and top-of-the-range SUVs.

"Gratitude arises from a specific circumstance — being given a gift or done a favor — but depends less upon that," Ms. Visser writes, "than on the receiver's whole life, her character, upbringing, maturity, experience, relationships with others, and also on her ideals, including her idea of the sort of person she is or would like to be".

It gave them a feeling of awe and reverence, being given a gift, being used as a vessel and at times the feeling of going into a trance.

And I realized that — despite everything — I have been given a gift, the gift of inquisitiveness.

"I was given a gift and that's what I do," he said.

They have been given a gift; they would be wise not to reject it.

I was given a gift, and that's what I do".

"I was given a gift and that's what I do.

It was as if each woman had been given a gift of a second family.

They had been given a gift, an image of affirmation on a tremendous scale.