Sentence examples for extraordinary endowment from inspiring English sources

Sinatra's "extraordinary endowment," as he puts it, moves Kaplan — a husband and father of three — to rhapsodize for over a page.

Lovelace's own appeal had less to do with any extraordinary physical endowment (she was turned down for employment by Xaviera Hollander, the Happy Hooker, because her breasts were too small) than with her aura of girl-next-door availability.

Rather than seeing the sage as an exceptional individual blessed with an extraordinary qi endowment that effectively renders him a different kind of being, who by nature is unaffected by any differentiated emotions such as pleasure and anger that are inherently partial, as He Yan does, Wang Bi argues that the sage is the same as ordinary men and women in experiencing the full range of emotions.

Some highlights from fake-Graydon's introductory words on Hitchens: - He has "fabled blue eyes and long, curled lashes" that have been "the toast of both sexes on five continents" - He shaves in the morning "through a cloud of blue cigarette smoke" - He smokes in the shower - He has fanglike teeth, ratlike claws, small puffy hands, and an "extraordinary genital endowment".

An extraordinary talent, an extraordinary human being, an extraordinary friend.

To earn these extraordinary returns, the endowments were adding substantial leverage to their investments.

I think it's also important to remember that one year does not a track record make, and these endowments have extraordinary long-term returns.

Shirley M. Tilghman, Princeton's president, said the trustees decided to expand the student body in 2001, after the endowment had undergone a few years of "extraordinary growth," because they felt "that a university that had as many resources as we did should educate as many students as it could without losing its character".

President Bush's nominee to be the next chairman of the endowment, the poet Dana Gioia, would do the nation an extraordinary service by persuading Congress to allow the N.E.A. to reinstate the endowment's fellowship grants to individual artists and rendering greater support to smaller arts organizations.

However, Yan Hui is also a special case, whose accomplishments are themselves quite extraordinary (e.g., commentary to Lunyu 6.3) and reflect a superior qi endowment.

"We are proud to honor these master artists whose compelling work demonstrates the extraordinary diversity and depth of our national cultural wealth," said Dana Gioia, chairman of the endowment.