Sentence examples for knack of pointing from inspiring English sources

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While CK's bark is worse than his bite, he's an uncanny knack of pointing out that life is a bitch.

Even so, he had a knack of pointing out the ticks and eccentricities of a political campaign to which we Brits have grown dispiritingly accustomed, and offered useful comparisons to how things were done across the pond.

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Notable "Blind Film Critic" Ben Churchill has a knack for pointing out when Hollywood has deja vu.

Yesterday, though, he showed he hasn't lost his knack of taking points off such teams, as West Ham claimed an admirable 0-0 dragainstnsthehe champions.

Martin O'Neill's Celtic teams had a knack of plundering points in the dying embers of matches.

Sullivan wrote, "We have heard it said that Shaughnessy has developed the knack of losing to the point where, with him, it is an exact science.

But Mr Putin's main feat though no small one has been to bring stability.That is thanks partly to his taste for control he has strengthened his direct powers over those of the legislature and regional governors, and put a lot of former secret-service colleagues in key posts—and partly to his own knack of looking like the calm point in every storm centre.

"MacArthur has a wonderful knack of leading a discussion up to the point of a decision that each member present believes he himself originated," said Gen. George Kenney, who served under MacArthur in the Pacific.

"Lee Hughes has got that horrible knack of being at the right place at the right time.

8/10 Jeff Agoos, USA One or two typically cloth-eared English commentators insist on pronouncing Jeff's surname "A goose", but they may have a point: Agoos has the uncanny knack of laying the rotten egg.

As his wife points out he's got a knack of getting his own way.

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