Sentence examples for have a special ability from inspiring English sources

And yet he seemed to have a special ability to cope with risk.

That suggests these lizards have a special ability to hold onto moisture.

Another experiment, reported in today's Science by Dr. Brian Hare of Harvard and colleagues, shows that dogs have a special ability to pick up human cues.

His point there was that the Moderns were a family, too, with all of the same scabs of insecurity that kin have a special ability to pick away at.

Ascribable to this communal perspective, perhaps, are the sententious opinions that occasionally interrupt scenes, such as this about the Senguptas' maid: "the poor have a special ability, after all, to understand the torments of their employers, to empathise with them"; or when it is said of a flower arranger that she has "the efficient but somewhat provisional air of a working woman".

And, yet, there are airports that do have a special ability to encourage us to look up and around, airports that have been designed one way or another to offer something of the adventure and poetry of flight even in an era of mass travel and budget fares.

Eakins also had a special ability, as many people have noted, to convey the act of thinking, a subtle effect.

Avery uses his speed and relentless energy to score goals, and has a special ability to drive opponents to distraction.

As in Miyazaki's gothic horror masterpiece, Bloodborne, every weapon now has a special ability, making the acquisition of new items a constant delight.

"Self-made people... may have believed that Williams had a special ability to work with them because they perceived Williams as self-made," he wrote in a 1992 U.C.L.A. dissertation on Williams.

While the premise of walking in a single direction through a video game for hundreds of hours may seem banal, Minecraft has a special ability to create unscripted character drama.