Sentence examples for ease with language from inspiring English sources

Despite his ease with language and his rich turns of phrase, Maf's name-dropping can be slightly overwhelming.

A tall, imposing man, with an alert mind and an ease with languages, he served as an SOE intelligence officer from 1940 to 1947, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel.

My ease with languages and literary analysis got me noticed, if not by football players, then by my professors (although one frat boy who asked me to his formal did actually become a professional baseball player).

Mr. Grammer isn't ill at ease with Shakespearean language.

Bower is not at ease with the language or the history of motor racing.

Ms. Hjejle, 29, attributes her ease with the language to her mother, who taught English for 25 years.

(In later years, Valerie's ease with the language, and familiarity with its literature, would come in useful when she met the Francophile Bacon).

Guerrero is at ease with the language of sports; she was raised by her father (her mother died when she was 8) and lived with two brothers.

Non-Spanish-speakers will get only the broad outline of the plot and the physical humor; for the many one-liners and quick asides, an ease with the language is essential.

Dell's voice here — nonjudgmental, insightful, laconic and slightly melancholy but at ease with the language he's using to plumb his memory — is the central strength of this remarkable novel.

This was a Republican debate, and so what followed Gingrich's remark was a rush on the part of the other candidates to show that they had an ease with the language of killing, too.