Sentence examples for verbal prowess from inspiring English sources

Instead it relies on strategy, cunning and above all verbal prowess.

Critics have not dared to liken his verbal prowess to that of Chairman Mao, whom many considered an accomplished poet.

For all her verbal prowess, for all her prolific output, Ms. Rich retained a dexterous command of the plain, pithy utterance.

Perhaps Mr. Bloomberg and Mr. Pataki, who, like President Bush, are not exactly known for their verbal prowess, and who each followed far more eloquent speakers into office, were hesitant to try their own hand at oratory.

"Such can only be classified as gratuitously scandalous if not indeed defamatory of character; what is worse, they were made against a person, who is not in a position to defend herself and mostly barred from TV anyway, by those exhibiting their verbal prowess for money".

He was, most of us believed, a smooth talker whose verbal prowess was the only thing that covered the fact that he was profoundly incompetent.

This double-pronged attack on one man's prowess, verbal and sexual, comes about two-thirds into this wry comedy from Greece.

Ali is revered for his phenomenal athletic prowess but also for his keen and unpredictable verbal brilliance.

Scott refers to this as Tebow Derangement Syndrome, which his blog defined as "the acute onset of mockery and verbal 'hatred' in otherwise normal people in reaction to the football prowess and play — nay — the very existence of Tim Tebow".

There will be telephone and in-person interviews, and applicants will have to submit multiple forms of evidence attesting to their students' achievement and their own prowess; only those scoring at the 90th percentile in the verbal section of the GRE, GMAT or similar tests need apply.

Probing more deeply, Penney found that this seemed to correlate with verbal intelligence – the kind tested by word games in IQ tests, compared to prowess at spatial puzzles (which, in fact, seemed to reduce the risk of anxiety).