Sentence examples for outstanding gift from inspiring English sources

Michael Berkeley writes: Richard's outstanding gift to British music sprang from a passion for its composers both famous and obscure.

Valuable though the David monograph remains, Brookner's outstanding gift was for swift and penetrating synthesis – still with beautiful phrase-making.

It is Watson's outstanding gift as an actress that she appears not to "put on" an act at all.

Take these three recent examples: When the Sharper Image filed for bankruptcy protection in February, customers were told it would not accept outstanding gift cards.

Often a company that's filed for Chapter 11 will ask the bankruptcy court to grant it permission to honor its outstanding gift cards so that it doesn't damage its reputation.

Outstanding gift cards almost always become worthless under a Chapter 7 filing.

In Paris in 1825 Luigi Cherubini discerned Mendelssohn's outstanding gifts.

There is a power of invention and an imaginative force here that mark Padilla as a writer of outstanding gifts.

In planning it and in sustaining it he displayed iron willpower, extraordinary energy, and outstanding gifts of statesmanship, generalship, and diplomacy.

"There is a power of invention and an imaginative force... that mark Padilla as a writer of outstanding gifts," Barry Unsworth wrote here in 2003.

Not everyone is called to be a physician, a lawyer, a philosopher, to live in the public eye, nor has everyone outstanding gifts of natural capacity, but all of us are created for the life of social duty, all are responsible for the personal influence that goes forth from us.