Sentence examples for unhappy knack from inspiring English sources

But he had the unhappy knack of making enemies in the party.

As a diplomat, public servant and shadow minister, Rudd had an unhappy knack of making colleagues loathe him.

Of course he could be arrogant and truculent and had the unhappy knack of misjudging social situations and making distastefully ribald remarks.

Perhaps the defence secretary knew so little because of his unhappy knack of always being on holiday when things get sticky.

Manchester City's unhappy knack of being handed tough Champions League draws continued on Thursday, when they were placed into a group alongside last season's runners-up Juventus, Sevilla and Borussia Mönchengladbach.

They started talking to him about their troubles — some of them about how they had considered suicide — and he found he had a knack for helping unhappy people change the way they thought.

Without light to read by, advertisements lost their knack of making people feel unhappy or inferior.

The Moreys — a nuclear unit of father (Adam), mother (Cynthia), daughter (April), son (Jonas) — is a New York family totally unlike, say, Salinger's Glass family; under their gleaming exteriors, every human quality is lacking — unless larceny counts — but both Salinger and Dee share a knack for chronicling the ways the zeitgeist makes unhappy families unhappy in their own ways.

Still, a knack is a knack.

A knack for diplomacy?

"He has a knack.