Sentence examples for familiar skill from inspiring English sources

True, "Riding the Bullet" gets off to a strong start and builds with its author's familiar skill.

Instead of using the subconscious part of the brain, which is the most efficient way to deliver a familiar skill (like talking, walking or remembering a maths formula during an A-level), we use the conscious part.

They often seem to want demonstrations of familiar skills.

Meanwhile, at times, Sampras displayed his own familiar skills -- big serve, crushing forehand -- but they were not nearly enough.

As President of the Supreme National Council, he will exercise his all too familiar skills in balancing off pressures from one side against the other whilst ensuring that his own person remains at the fulcrum.

While his sculpted poses and flying balances rely on familiar skills, dancers are turned inside out as they try to penetrate the stillness coiled at the heart of his style.

According to Bill Shaw, Marriott's president, the time-share business draws on his company's familiar skills of managing accommodation, and helps it fill its hotel rooms by offering its time-share customers deals to swap some of their holiday allowance for weekend stays in Marriott hotels.Not everyone wants to be part of a chain.

Although he used some of his more familiar skills in making the movie ("Being a fashion photographer, I made sure she looked her best all the time"), he seems, on the whole, to have absorbed his subject's lifelong aesthetic of diligent, unceasing wheel-reinvention, her determination to remain, in every aspect of her art, an inspired amateur.

Last summer, when the officer moved his hand toward his gun, the familiar skills returned.

Adaptation to physical and psychological change in later life can be expressed through being and doing in familiar environments, practicing familiar skills, and interacting with familiar social ties [ 54].

Similar to the weekly quiz questions, exam questions asked students to apply the (by now) familiar skills practiced in class in similar but (from the perspective of the students) somewhat different contexts.