Sentence examples for something of a gift from inspiring English sources

The contrast with his predecessor has proved something of a gift.

Given its business of dissembling and fictionalising, the CIA is something of a gift to novelists.

For the screenwriter Le Carré's monologues are something of a gift.

The ability to manage these issues might be something of a gift, although it's also nice to have some luck.

Though the bill is something of a gift to the union, Ms. Weingarten denied asking for it.

Its flourish suggests that this man is something of a gift to himself – and what better gift could a man of such and such pretensions want than himself?

Gift Shop Addendum: As something of a gift-shop addendum to this post, I wanted to note that you can go pick up all the Big Trouble in Little China paraphernalia that you may want from the Wing Kong Exchange, a website named after the major venue in the movie.

And, in part, the consuming and comforting divertissement of baseball has been seen as something of a mercy gift.

The song, "Can't Be the Only One," with words by Joplin and music by Mr. Getz, was something of a parting gift.

So Wheeler's start Wednesday was something of a parting gift, something for Mets fans to dream about as they wait for Matt Harvey to decide what to do about the partly torn ligament in his right elbow and as they wait for next season.

Germaine Greer, judge of that year's Summer Exhibition, and never a woman to shy away from controversy, awarded the £25,000 prize to Kitaj as something of a farewell gift, while noting that "Sandra Fisher survives in her husband's work not as a fellow painter, but as Shekhina, the female aspect of the deity of the Kabbalah with whom he seeks union.