Sentence examples for singular knack for from inspiring English sources

Mr. Primo had a singular knack for recognizing, and mentoring, reporters who would become stars.

Since founding his company in 1984 he has had a singular knack for pairing his sexually charged, elegantly virtuosic movement language (interpreted by dancers like Davalois Fearon, above) with some of the hottest musicians and fashion designers of the moment; more impressively, he has done it for artistic imperatives, not marketing ones.

The pride of Peru, Ind., might have had as dab a hand for light verse as another Midwestern kid of his generation named Tom Eliot, but cold type simply doesn't do justice to his singular knack for creating lines that draw their life force from what he puckishly dubbed "the Tin-Pantithesis of melody".

Rod Temperton, a British-born musician and songwriter with a singular knack for pop-funk who wrote the Michael Jackson classic "Thriller," "Rock With You" and many other hits, has died of cancer in London at 66. .

Mr. Walton had an odd knack for collecting coins.

Yet he possessed a singular gift: a knack for riling up those who nurse gripes and are keen to pin the blame on someone or something.

■ Odd Creatures With a Knack for Not Being Clearly Photographed.

It is vintage Kissinger, with his singular combination of breadth and acuity along with his knack for connecting headlines to trend lines — very long trend lines in this case.

Her iconoclastic spin on R&B has made Dawn a singular force and this four-track EP  continues her knack for delivering lush, shape-shifting work.

Her singular ability to get into trouble is superseded only by her knack for getting out of it.

A knack for diplomacy?