Sentence examples for genuine gift from inspiring English sources

Johnson is a writer with a genuine gift.

They felt uneasy with the deceit and instead made the money a genuine gift.

He's not that smart, really, but he has a genuine gift.

Strongly influenced by the Scottish and English Romantic poets and Byron, he was a poet of slight but genuine gift.

There is a bracelet of carved emeralds and rubies made for Ganna Walska, the marginally talented opera singer whose genuine gift was marrying well and often (six times).

"He had a genuine gift, it wasn't just an eye, it wasn't just a facility with a camera, it wasn't just an ability to write, it was something inside him that was special.

In remaining faithful to their genuine gifts they left the convoy and sailed on their various independent courses.

He added, "It's not always easy in our weddings to tell the difference between bribes and genuine gifts".

The pian ist's genuine gifts were dis played to best advantage only in the lyrical segments of the score, particularly the two andante variations of the.

He began a 1959 review of Langston Hughes's "Selected Poems," in The New York Times Book Review, this way: "Every time I read Langston Hughes I am amazed all over again by his genuine gifts — and depressed that he has done so little with them".

Writing about Hughes's "Selected Poems" in the Times in 1959, Baldwin — who chastised his elder for reducing blackness to a kind of pleasant Negro simplicity — began with a bang: Every time I read Langston Hughes I am amazed all over again by his genuine gifts — and depressed that he has done so little with them. . . .