Sentence examples for distinctive gift from inspiring English sources

This was the distinctive gift to literature conferred by the group, the gift of Allen Tate, who lent the most metaphysical and theological aspects to the New Criticism.

Ms. Hong, a Korean modern-dance performer and choreographer, singer and writer, has a distinctive gift for quietly stunning imagery and the mystical distillation of complex life issues.

Set to propulsive music by Oumou Sangare and Feli Anikulapo Kuti, the group dance is a perfect example of Mr. Brown's distinctive gift for blending African traditional and Western modern dance into a driving, resilient and slyly funny new whole.

Two months before the primary last year, Mr. Perry spoke during Sunday services at the nondenominational Elevate Life Church in Frisco and walked away with a distinctive gift from the pastor: a long silver sword, given to the governor as a symbol of the word of God.

The opening pages of The Secret History, set among the privileged undergraduates of a tony Vermont college, announced the arrival of someone born with a thriller writer's most important and distinctive gift: the apparently effortless genius for milieu, the ability to imagine and populate a singular and believable parallel world, a place which is like our own but which is somehow subtly displaced.

Indeed, his sparkling, distinctive gift for dialogue and whiplash changes in emotion from sincere to silly are on full display.

But both plays offer rich evidence of their creators' distinctive gifts.

These prizes have been awarded to people whose distinctive gifts don't necessarily fit the awards as they were configured.

Reading the two poets side by side helps their distinctive gifts to stand out sharply — along with their equally suggestive limitations.

"People are more interested in how the judges in the figure skating messed up," said Eric A. Gilzean, who owns Edinburgh Castle, a shop offering Distinctive Gifts from Scotland, on South Main Street.

The ingenuity that Michael exhibits here should have been corralled and shaped by enterprising producers long ago, yet perhaps his distinctive gifts are untimely ones.