Sentence examples for strong gift from inspiring English sources

Contrary to stereotype, he thinks she had a strong gift of empathy, "but only if she thought the cause was just, as with soldiers and sailors.

DVD sales have fallen this year, hit by the demise of high street chains Woolworths and Zavvi, but a wave of new comics, demand for escapist entertainment and a strong gift market have lifted live comedy sales.

King is a beautiful writer, with equally strong gifts for dialogue and internal monologue.

On the other hand, creative people may not have equally strong gifts across the spectrum of human ability.

But if the art vultures move on, maybe this young and talented draughtsman can continue to develop his very strong gifts.

However, he was not a successful teacher, being impatient with students lacking strong gifts; but he wrote some introductory textbooks in mathematics, and also a more advanced one in mechanics (Peirce 1855).

"I think that was her strongest gift as an artist, beyond her innate aesthetic abilities, that she understood the necessity of getting a thing done within a time frame, with certain resources, with whatever means are available to you," Mr. Volpe said.

He leaves behind the Hemingwayesque mannerisms and strained connections that mar his writing about the novelist (and his boat), and instead his two strongest gifts — that compassion and his research and reporting prowess — combine to masterly effect.

Whereas Ms. Robinson used her remarkable descriptive powers and pointillist prose in "Gilead" to give the reader a keen sense of that small, Midwestern town and to conjure up the history of John Ames's uncommon family, she focuses in this novel on the unhappy emotional mathematics of Jack's relationship with his father, a task unsuited to her strongest gifts as a writer.

Though lacking a strong melodic gift, Zandonai writes soaring narratives for his characters in place of set-piece arias.

The rules also established a strong lobbyist gift ban, limited lobbyist participation on advisory boards, and attempted to keep them from shaping stimulus and TARP spending.