Sentence examples for shows a gift from inspiring English sources

And in places he shows a gift for shrewd, point-making dialogue.

Kael calls it "an unresourceful and monotonous movie visually" (though adds that Loden "shows a gift for imagery").

Ms. Foster (a Tony winner for "Thoroughly Modern Millie") shows a gift for fresh, comic line readings.

The executive chef, Brad Steelman, shows a gift for making fairly simple food seem a lot more elegant than it really is.

The child, at the age of five, shows a gift for sententious utterance as allegedly enchanting as his father's, "pronouncements saved from the oracular and pompous by the unassuming manner of his delivery".

Gibran at one time had hoped to be a playwright, and "Jesus" shows a gift for characterization and "voice" — an insistence, for the moment, on one speaker's point of view — that saves the book from his habitual gassiness.

Li showed a gift for painting, calligraphy, and music as a child.

Debussy showed a gift as a pianist by the age of nine.

As a young competitor, Fournier was fearless and showed a gift for shot making.

Even in basketball, former Australian players have shown a gift for the form.

Bizet had already shown a gift for composition far superior to that of a merely precocious boy.