Sentence examples similar to skill to abandon from inspiring English sources

Faulkner understood story, but he had such astounding technical skill he could seem to abandon it and no one would care.

That skill is too valuable to abandon.

A pressing question lies at the heart of this exploration of pottery-making, yarn-spinning, hedge-pleaching, roof-thatching, plowing with oxen, and other traditional crafts: Was it wise of us to abandon skills honed over millennia?

Perhaps if more districts, or even individual teachers, adopted a policy of holding back students who have not mastered grade-appropriate skills, we would be able to abandon the punitive and stifling No Child Left Behind tests.

As I started, I quickly realized that the task would require advanced psychoanalytical skills and I was forced to abandon that course of attack (for you see I'm only an intermediate psychoanalytical hobbyist).

The immediate effect of these audits is to force individual programmers like Mrs. Johnson to abandon their dreams of getting rich off their high-technology skills.

And although mining production in the US has ramped up in the past two years, and the Chinese building boom has cooled significantly, the criminals who learned how to scrap between 2008 and 2011 show no signs of being thwarted instead they've adapted their skills to strip abandoned homes left over by the foreclosure crisis.

He appeared to abandon colour.

We have to abandon discarding".

Will they have to abandon the subway?

But she refused to abandon hope.