Sentence examples for native gift for from inspiring English sources

The family moved several times during the second world war, further disrupting the young Mandelbrot's education, but with the result that he preserved a native gift for shape that might, he suggests, otherwise have been drummed out of him by a conventional education.

As a book, the story is movie-obsessed: Vikar has a tattoo of Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift on his bald head and a native gift for film..

Puccini in this little opera - it flashes by in 48 minutes - is true to the old native gift of Italy for the comedy of genial roguishness.

We spend our money hiring people who delight us with their wonderful native gifts.

April 18 2012 April 18: The Breithaupt Brothers (the composer Don and the lyricist Jeff) may not be the toast of Broadway just yet, but in their native Canada their gift for tuneful theatrical fare is much admired.

Shahzad Azmat of Kew Gardens added about $150 to the mall sales that evening, buying dolls, watches, children's clothing, shirts, perfumes and other goods he and his wife planned to take to their native Pakistan as gifts for family and friends.

Alexander McQueen combines a gift for flamboyant presentation, expert tailoring and a skinhead bad-boy reputation that has made him notorious in his native London.

A gift for geometry?

The pantomime tradition and folk-tale quality of the ballet show Mr. Martins's gift for delineating personality through movement (unsurprising since he was raised on the buoyant, warm characters of the Bournonville tradition in his native Denmark).

John bought a gift for Mary.  .

John bought a gift for Mary.