Sentence examples for far gifted from inspiring English sources

Nadal has been impressive in the little he has had to do so far, gifted a retirement after one set against Bernard Tomic, then seeing off his second young Australian challenger Thanasi Kokkinakis for the loss of eight games.

Collaborate with people far more gifted but far less renowned.

Senator Obama, it turned out, was a far more gifted candidate and strategist than many of us gave him credit for.

Lynch, who believes that film is far more gifted than words in conveying the language of abstraction, was billing Mulholland Drive simply as 'a love story in the city of dreams'.

Whereas Mr Brown was largely the author of his own misfortunes (the banking crash apart), Heath, as Dominic Sandbrook reminds us in his splendidly readable new history of Britain during the four years from 1970, was faced with a set of problems whose intractability and nastiness would have overwhelmed even a far more gifted politician.Heath both appals Mr Sandbrook and elicits his sympathy.

And Miles said, 'You got about 15 other letters to write before you get to me.'" Despite all his problems, despite the fact that his skills steadily declined until he died – mysteriously – in Amsterdam in 1988, Baker continued to fascinate other musicians, including some who were far more gifted.

But Balthus was, and continues to be, disdained and discounted by many contemporary art critics and art historians, even while far less gifted young American painters like, say, Lisa Yuskavage, whose pornography-derived art makes Balthus's work look discreet, have been promoted and made fashionable.

There were glimmers of skill, but he lacked the cunning and craft of players far less physically gifted than him.

The Duke of Argyll on the west coast and the Duke of Sutherland in the far north were gifted the mining rights by previous monarchs.

But Rupert Pennefather (playing Beliaev), by far the most gifted British male ballet dancer to have emerged in many years, and the appealing soloist Vanessa Palmer as the maid Katia bring music, action and acting right back into focus.

A writer like Tony Kushner strikes me as someone far more naturally gifted at bringing the private and public worlds of his characters to life: he may be the most obvious link between the British writers I've long admired and contemporary America.