Sentence examples for developed a gift for from inspiring English sources

Like Bill Clinton before him, he has developed a gift for wriggling out of controversies by seizing the initiative and creating a third option.

As a Mormon missionary, he was assigned to proselytize from a soap box in Hyde Park in London, where he developed a gift for salesmanship that became the hallmark of his career.

Over the years of hardship, I had developed a gift for making something from nothing.

Perhaps young Dexter will develop a gift for pruning.

Noting that the decades of political ferment and activism have failed to bring much positive change to the nation, he concludes that the only real talent boomers have developed is a gift for "hanging out".

At 11, he won a scholarship to the city's grammar school and developed a natural gift for drawing; at 16, he joined the Plymouth School of Art.

In much the same way, Eggers has developed an exceptional gift for opening up the lives of others so as to offer the story of globalism as it develops and, simultaneously, to unfold a much more archetypal tale of struggle and loneliness and drift.

Walter Kettrick developed a strange gift - he read minds.

But after years of city life, some rodents have begun to genetically mutate, developing a resistance to poison and a gift for outsmarting traps.

We've also included a 1997 Profile by Lahr, "Fortress Mamet," about how David Mamet developed his gift for verbal swagger.

He has a highly developed gift for visual description which can, in Nabokov's phrase, "persuade you of the reality" of just about anything he turns his attention to, from a dog's mouth with its "peculiar bacon-rasher tongue" to the writhing inhabitants of a worm farm.