Sentence examples for knack for retaining from inspiring English sources
Partly because the brain does not have a knack for retaining many specifics and is highly susceptible to suggestion.
Mr. Jenkins has a knack for retaining such high-priced artists as Mr. Heppner and Carol Vaness long after their normal fees have surpassed the Seattle Opera's resources.
But Belichick and his staff, including the defensive coordinator, Romeo Crennel, make sure his players have a knack for retaining and executing them.
What's certain is that Godzilla retains its knack for returning when its country most needs it, providing a giant canvas upon which Japan can work through its existential angst.
He retained his knack for cooking despite his promotion from the corporate kitchen, and liked to watch cooking shows.
The two albums were seen as more commercially accessible than previous releases, and "The Memory Remains," a song featuring haunting backing vocals by Marianne Faithfull, demonstrated that Hetfield retained his knack for aggressive and intelligent lyrics.
But if the sense of overfamiliarity is a bit disappointing for a band once lauded as experimentalists, producer Ethan Kath has also retained his knack for writing terrific hooks and warped melodies.
An East Hampton architect with a knack for maximizing vistas, Michael Haverland, was retained to raze and repurpose the premises — he trimmed the square footage of the proposed new house, but not the footprint, by half.
As he prepares to make another contribution to the rich tradition of gay and lesbian writers on the supernatural and uncanny, let us hope he retains his peculiar knack for blending the sweet with the subversive.
He also has a pop-Wagnerian sense of scale, a knack for building large action sequences into frenzied assaults on the laws of physics that nonetheless retain a certain lunatic plausibility.
But he showed a knack for striking advantageous deals with the music corporations he once openly loathed in order to improve distribution, while retaining the rights to his music.
