Sentence examples for gift of something from inspiring English sources

Mr. Shirky suggests giving the gift of something that is ephemeral but precious: time.

For Chileans who have suffered the tragic consequences of an earthquake and tsunami recently, the gift of something to cherish was there to be seized.

He was arguing that Silicon Valley is colonial by nature, giving the gift of something free in exchange for a tax of data and control which people don't quite realize they're providing.

The category of waste here implies the straightforward gift of something that is either self-replenishing (in the case of peripheral blood) or something that would otherwise be discarded (in the case of the umbilical cord).

My idea of grace is an otherwise inexplicable gift in one's life, the gift of something you didn't know you needed so badly.

They are all so small, how can they be bad for me? 3. Halloween is the holiday where you are supposed to knock on the door of people you don't know and expect them to give you a gift of something fun to eat or a donation for a good cause of your own choosing.

And his is the gift of saying something extraordinary while, line by line, conveying a sense that this is something an ordinary person might actually say.

"Our academic writing has this inherent gift of taking something interesting and making it dull and boring.

The words were a gift of sorts, something his 14-year-old son had seen scrawled on a blackboard by a student in English class.

"I thought: 'What can I do?' Well, I make shirts, so I just saw it as going and giving a gift of gratitude, something small".

He was a European intellectual, an émigré, and, in the popular mind, the European émigré represented vision, the gift of seeing something grand in the banality of postwar American life.