Sentence examples for knack for calling from inspiring English sources

The problems here lie with the playwright, and with a director, Donald Brenner, who seems to have a knack for calling attention to the script's worst features.

In recent years, Shandling, who, like many stars, had a knack for calling with a crisis whenever his manager was on his way out the door, had noticed that Grey didn't seem as devoted.

"And having a guy like Monte is like having a Bill Walsh; I played for Walsh at Stanford and Monte has his kind of knack for calling plays, only on the defensive side".

In the opposing corner we have A. Gary Shilling, who has garnered worldwide acclaim for his financial acumen, with a specific knack for calling market downturns.

A bullish case for commodities comes from Boston money man Jeremy Grantham, who has a knack for calling big turns in the market.

(Governor Mecham, you may remember, had a knack for calling his African-American constituents "colored people" and "pickaninnies").

For these services he never asked for money, of course, but he had the knack of calling in favors.

Mr. Warner built a backdrop for some of the photographs by piling rough-sawed timbers into what he terms a Jenga stack — a room-within-a-room that Ms. Baumann, who has a knack for branding, calls the Little House.

Ithaca is where Caruso discovered a knack for play-calling while battling his roommates in the video game Bill Walsh College Football '95.

According to theoretical calculations, stars composed of primordial hydrogen and helium and lacking heavier elements like oxygen and carbon, which astronomers with their knack for nomenclature call "metals," can grow monstrously large.

Ronald B. Goerler Jr., an owner of Jamesport Vineyards, which has long had a knack for sauvignon blancs, called his 2002 edition, soon to be released, "one of the best we've made in years".