Sentence examples for brilliant ear from inspiring English sources

Shriver has a brilliant ear for American dialogue: Lawrence, Irina and her wise-ass friend Betsy all fire off sharp remarks and aperçus like nobody's business.

She has a brilliant ear for offhand description, the kind that immediately situates us in a location, or in a consciousness.

While not a flashy stylist, she knows just how to make a story build: the novel reveals a sure sense of pace and pitch, a brilliant ear for character.

Orwell's purpose was to allegorise revolutionary and Stalinist Russia; his brilliant ear for the bombast of totalitarianism carried through to Nineteen Eighty-Four, published six months before his death in 1950, with its "Newspeak", "doublethink", "thoughtcrime" and, of course, "Big Brother".

Now Abbott is back with No Offence, where you can see the influence of both dramas: there is the sense of police procedural from State of Play, the pantomime grotesquery of Shameless, and as always that brilliant ear for the individual voice.

But his unfailingly brilliant ear - combined, one supposes, with a solid grounding from school - meant that his renderings on the page were always perfectly hilarious.

This became the standard Tim Burton criticism: he had a brilliant eye and no ear.

11, 12, and 13] are a happy medium between what is too easy and too difficult; they are very brilliant, pleasing to the ear, and natural, without being vapid.

Robert Novak was a brutal, brilliant newsman who had the ear of the Republican establishment.

(Your ear trick is brilliant, btw).

A Brilliant Panorama of Thirteen Y ears or sport; FAREWELL TO SPORT.