The phrase "give wings" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to mean to inspire or encourage someone. For example, "She gave me wings to pursue my dreams."
And I give wings to dreams, I ain't breaking no wings.
(Her cooking, Chaudhuri writes, in one of many phrases that give wings to this purposely still story, "was safe and insipid, and had a tranquillity about it").
And with regards to Mr Luque, who is a great player, I must say the same: before you give wings to violent people in stadiums, shut up!
He can give wings to an important individual dancer; his pas de deux can be occasions for real drama; his uses of stage geometries and light can be potent.
Radio 3 has surely to be seen as part of a larger digital project, with a community that will give wings to the wonderful things being conceived and created inside Broadcasting House.
For most of us in music, technique, whether with the baton, the voice, an instrument, or the composer's pencil, is something we strive and strain to acquire, hoping that we'll gain enough of it to give wings to whatever artistic insights we can muster.
However, the small number of free glides meant they were not able to give wing-warping a true test.
Thoreau, Nietzsche and many other creative types have claimed that walking gives wings to the imagination.
Their romance is given wings by snatches of music; a lovely unaccompanied song follows the balcony scene.
The jersey, however, often gives wings to its bearer, and perhaps that will carry over to the entire Jean Delatour squad.
The proposed visa policy could bring universities crashing down, as if they were birds suddenly given wings of lead.
