Sentence examples for odd knack from inspiring English sources

Mr. Walton had an odd knack for collecting coins.

Rooney possessed that odd knack known only to the best – the very, very best, the Messis and the Maradonas and the Ronaldinhos – where the ball always bounces for them, as if charmed.

When things get black —figuratively and literally, given her disdain for the dark and monochromatic — she encourages a lightening up (usually with colorful costume jewelry or an odd knick-knack).

Don G. has that odd House Staffer's knack, already, after four months, of seeing everything significant in both living and dining rooms without really looking.

With orchestral arrangements from his father, and Brown's knack for odd, bunched chords and a taste for extreme melancholy, the sound was quickly tagged "baroque pop" by the press.

No other writer of the 20th century had Arthur Koestler's knack for doing odd things, crossing paths with important people and being present when disaster struck.

Mr. Shatner's genial, relaxed self-absorption is a large part of his charm, along with his odd cadences and his unparalleled knack for blurring the line between pomposity and sincerity.

Lacassagne had his own knack for specificity.

JOAO AGUIAR A Knack for Defying Odds Last year, while sailing off the coast of New Jersey, Joao Aguiar was knocked unconscious by the flying boom of his catamaran and fell into a coma.

Hall's now been at the satire game for nearly 30 years, but his ability to gruffly skewer the idiosyncrasies and idiocies of politicians remains undimmed, as does his knack for producing the odd pithy diamond of a gag.

Unfortunately for Leben, he also has a knack for flunking the odd post-fight doping test, something which has blotted his copybook on more than one occasion in an otherwise admirable career.