Sentence examples for special capacity from inspiring English sources

"Film has a special capacity for this because of the nature of the medium.

"It was as if I had lost some special capacity to filter my own perceptions," she says.

In Middle English a genius is an attendant spirit, somewhat later the term may refer to a disposition, and later still to a special capacity.

But it has a special capacity for clarifying the continent's mood because it is the only country that votes regularly on how far Europe should integrate.

Cacti, most members of which are native to the Western Hemisphere, have developed a special capacity to store water in thick, fleshy bodies.

Usually encountering less discrimination in baseball (as well as in other venues of commercial entertainment) than they did in the more "respectable" occupations, in the 19th century Irish and German Americans were so conspicuous in professional baseball that some observers wondered if they had a special capacity for playing the game.

One striking point is that different groups deal in different ways with the same food in accordance with special capacities.

The United States should continue to support NATO contingency planning as it builds on the special capacities of Central European partners that can be applied to shared challenges.

This exhibition examines the rich art scene that emerged in the early 1960s in South Central, revealing how a host of mostly but not always black artists explored assemblage's special capacities to fuse medium and message, in some cases inspired by the trauma of the 1965 Watts riots.

Policy instruments may be soft and flexible, but they are normally not functional unless backed up with law [36], which highlights special capacities and functions of law.

(Note, furthermore, that the claim would not need this further stipulation, and indeed it would have been trivially true if Aristotle had not spoken here about capacities for being in some particular state, but had referred to the special capacities for undergoing change, and not the ones for possessing attributes which characterize a state, reached as the end result of a change.