As for the skater brothers – well, their broken legs did serve to show us (and, perhaps, Jimmy) one thing: he's got a gift for talking his way out of trouble.
"She killed!" cheered Noonan about the vice-presidential debate, revising her opinion upward and marveling at Palin's gift for talking "over the heads of the media straight to the people".
The process seemed to be more about the catharsis of talking and the gift of having someone do nothing but listen and empathize.
He leaned over to Gaetano Mosca, the man who runs the soccer academy that Vincenzo attends in his hometown of Naples, and in Italian asked a simple question in an exasperated voice: "How many pages is he going to write?" Vincenzo is clearly tired of talking about his gift -- or rather, tired of hearing adults talk about it.
Mr. Sher had invited his friend to rehearsals of "Blood and Gifts" to talk to the cast about his work as a diplomatic negotiator in the Middle East.
Bryan Fuller's first series, "Wonderfalls" was short-lived and starred Caroline Dhavernas as Jaye, a girl who is plagued with the gift of inanimate objects talking to her and forcing her to help strangers.
Those who remember my Daddy know that he was talented in so many areas, one of which was that special gift of small talk and table conversation.
Not long afterward — mischievously soon, in fact — Corinne sits in bed, beside her husband, and asks, "Why don't we believe in tongues?" Once the confusion clears, we realize that she is talking about the gift of Pentecostal babble; viewed as deceptive by Ethan and his fellow-worshippers, it is practiced, on the quiet, by Corinne's friend Annika (Dagmara Dominczyk).
My gift of gab has gotten me into fights, but that same gift has talked myself out of those fights, giving me an unblemished 0-0 fighting record.
Jill Gilmour's customers at Jodi and Jane's gift shop could talk of nothing else today, not the antique plates or knicknacks, not the sentimental jewelry that is all 20percentt off for Mother's Day.
