Sentence examples for uncanny gift from inspiring English sources

It meant something to have his uncanny gift recognised.

These scenes capture Shackleton's uncanny gift for transcendent showmanship.

Narrative imagination is its own thing: the muscular yet uncanny gift of the storyteller.

Beneath all the fragmentation and distortion, Forsythe displays an uncanny gift for structure and theatrical presentation.

He has an almost uncanny gift for putting music into words.

A chairlift in July is somehow a terrifying sight — another uncanny gift, from Oregon.

The Pygmalion-like Holbein had uncanny gifts.

How I hope that some room may be found to celebrate this author's uncanny gifts.

But like Tony Valentine, the gaming consultant who sniffs out crooked play in gambling casinos in a popular Swain series, Carpenter has uncanny gifts in his chosen field, and he uses them here in the dogged pursuit of a serial killer who leaves no traces of his abducted victims.

This puts her and her uncanny mimetic gift on the horns of a dilemma.

But this is just a slick sleight of thought: if anything Robyn, a battle ram with uncanny songwriting gifts and only occasional moments of complexity, offers a more straightforward proposition than the quirky Ms. Perry.