Sentence examples for quality of personality from inspiring English sources

Sometimes it takes little more than touch or some quality of personality to lend conviction to an idea that's in the air.

"But the truth is that after a certain point quantity of money does indeed change into quality of personality: in an important sense the very rich are different from us," he wrote.

She worked on "Allure" with Christopher Hemphill, a process that took three years as she sought the elusive quality of personality in images of celebrities and models, in their gestures and sometimes violent expressions -- a special condition for pictures of Maria Callas -- and Mr. Hemphill did his best to oblige her.

He chooses his models not only for their beauty but for certain dramatic qualities of personality that he recognizes as suited to his particular theatrical needs.

It was hardly surprising, therefore, that, by the end of her life, her technique was faltering, and she was relying increasingly on her unique qualities of personality.

Similarly, the condemnation of homosexuality is unreasonable because homosexuality is also likely to be a biological adaptation: "Homosexuality may give advantages to the group by special talents, unusual qualities of personality, and the specialized roles and professions it generates".

And yet you'd like to think that there are judges with skill and qualities of personality that will enable them to reconsider, or at least be sympathetic to, the best arguments made by people with whom they don't normally agree.

The electric quality of his personality has been attested by his contemporaries.

If I may borrow a line from my biography of Ronald Reagan, "In the end what chiefly survives, or should survive, of any Chief Executive is the quality of his personality".

When we see a teacher effortlessly commanding her class's attention, our instinct is to put it down to some quality of their personality – great teachers, it is said, just have something.

If his line "in the end what chiefly survives, or should survive, of any Chief Executive is the quality of his personality" is true, then posterity may well celebrate the warts-and-all quality of a Bill Clinton over the blank-slate quality of a Ronald Reagan.