Sentence examples for exploit his gift from inspiring English sources

If Mr. Mitchell were a ham, he would exploit his gift to play crowd-pleasing tricks.

The film was followed by the director Tony Richardson's 1962 screen version of The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, in which Tom Courtenay portrayed the title character who, after breaking into a bakery, is placed in borstal, where the governor hopes to exploit his gift for cross-country running in an upcoming race.

Odd knows he's weird, and he knows he really does see ghosts everywhere -and he has also chosen to never reveal any of this to his parents, knowing that his father would exploit his gift for profit.

In critic Gary Giddins' view, "Kelly was never able to exploit his gifts when he went out on his own.

Suffice it to say that some years went by before I saw Dámaso again, though I heard the rumors — we all did — that his father was forcing him to travel from town to town like a freak in a sideshow, shamelessly exploiting his gift for the benefit of every gaping rube with a few pesos in his pocket.

Invariably sporting a brown derby hat (a habit borrowed from the 1920s American Democratic presidential candidate Al Smith), he ruthlessly exploited his gift for taking off voices, causing endless delight by replying to questions at public meetings in exactly the same Devon intonations as his interlocutor.

But there will be wrinkles exclusive to Smith, a game plan that exploits his gifts as much as it conceals his shortcomings.

Though he did much of the writing (possibly too much for his health) there was a whole organisation toiling to keep him on the racing line, and he was left free to exploit his best gift, which is for the most elaborately eloquent dialogue since the great days of Hollywood screwball comedy.

Though films rarely allowed Sander to show his gift for physical comedy and slapstick, playing an invisible angel exploited his talent for comedy and mimicry.

Daniel B. Utset rounds out the cast in several roles that exploit his comic gifts.

John McEntee is a charmer who has exploited his Irish gift for comedic story-telling to such effect that he has been able to lead a charmed journalistic life.