Sentence examples for had a sharp ear from inspiring English sources

Herbie Hancock: he always had a sharp ear for a pop hook.

That was nothing to the hate she felt for Sadie Gordon, the young Englishwoman her father hired to look after the children and teach them English; Louise, who was 10 at the time, learned her lessons well, but had a sharp ear for gossip and soon understood that her governess had also usurped her mother's place in papa's bed.

It's certainly true that no one had a sharper ear for humbug.

James Salter clearly has a sharp ear and a fine eye.

Like Almond, Doyle has a sharp ear for language and family dynamics.

The three of them bicker convincingly — Baggott has a sharp ear for the swagger and the vulnerability of adolescence — but their moral compass is unwavering.

How will he cope on a visit to his father, who also has ADD? Jack Gantos has a sharp ear for dialogue in this engagingly observed story.

Robert Adetuyi, who wrote and directed "Turn It Up," has a sharp ear for streetwise dialogue and an eye for seedy urban ambience.

Kramer has a sharp ear for the hilarious conversations that take place when the participants speak just enough of the same language to make themselves hopelessly misunderstood.

Strenuously committed to a 'faith in words', those permanent shadows that the writer casts upon the world, he has a sharp ear for contemporary fiction, and a sharp tongue to match.

FOOTNOTE -- Without making an issue of it, the movie has a sharp ear for the put-downs, rejection and personal viciousness that high school students reserve for one another.