Sentence examples for extraordinary facility for from inspiring English sources

Ludo has inherited from Sibylla an extraordinary facility for language.

Gesualdo Consort Amsterdam's three-disc set confirms his extraordinary facility for absorbing different styles, from the robust to the florid.

He cultivated an extraordinary facility for reading chess games, absorbing pages of dense notation in seconds, and learned Russian just so that he could study Soviet chess literature.

Again and again, though, Balzac returns, obliquely but obsessively, to the fact of his extraordinary facility for creation; his characters lose themselves in thoughts and imaginings about the lives of people they see in the street.

Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord, an allegory of love and corruption, is the best of Bernière's Latin American trilogy and illustrates his extraordinary facility for sudden switches between gentle comedy and sadistic bloodshed.

Heller, the author of "The Dog Stars" and other novels, has an extraordinary facility for describing topography and vegetation; we can feel the sharpness of the rocks and the trilling excitement of the river as it approaches rapids.

Of similar interest is "Feet Draggin' Blues '44-'47" (Hep CD 62), notable for Ray Conniff's "Friar Rock," on which James plays a staggeringly assured solo singled out in "The Swing Era," Gunther Schuller's 1989 study of jazz in the 30's and 40's, for its "extraordinary facility and flawless execution".

For all Coward's antediluvian attitudes, he had an extraordinary facility with dialogue, grasped the comic potential of adverbs and used music inventively – in Family Album, a mourning Victorian family shed their fake piety and end up dancing a jig.

It had an extraordinary range of facilities for the time – a stage, a library, a gymnasium – and was well attended.

Elder spent the last decades of his professional life applying his extraordinary technical facility, his appetite for juvenility and his indiscrimination to the service of Playboy magazine.

"This play is all about the extraordinary language, it is Shakespeare's lyric tragedy – and David, with his wonderful facility for language, has the capacity to be great in it, I am confident".