Sentence examples for peculiar gift from inspiring English sources

But wherever his imagination leads him, his peculiar gift is to reel the dream back to reality.

That might seem like a peculiar gift to give the world's most famous scientist but Stephen instantly understood its significance.

Sodoma had a peculiar gift for suggesting the sensuous beauty of the human form and an exaggerated, almost mystical, emotionalism that anticipates one aspect of the Baroque.

Redstone's peculiar gift also explains why he seems to have ended up as "friends" with so many of the people with whom he's done business.

And, while the play has one or two awkward contrivances, it confirms Bennett's peculiar gift for blending the satiric and the elegiac.

Sarah never got baptized, but after her father died she thought of the "peculiar gift of freedom" her father had granted her through his silence.

Two of his most peculiar gifts, peculiar in an artist of considerable musical literacy and compositional sophistication, are his capacities for responding to a score with a raw innocence and for exposing its deep neurological effect.

Speech!" (2000), "The Orchards of Syon" (2002) and "Scenes From Comus" (2005), despite their peculiar gifts, has diluted a career of painstakingly crafted, close-managed poems.

The children's mother, long dead, recognized her son's peculiar gifts from the beginning: "He was beautiful and calm, he knew things".

Unlike most writers, he seems never to have become bored with his own peculiar gifts — to have tired of the wonderful toys left under the tree for him when he was a kid.

The Brooklyn Academy of Music understandably decided not to include "The Toy," but its retrospective does reveal how Pryor's screen work from the 1980s became slicker, more hollow and hostile to his peculiar gifts.