Sentence examples for with a sharp ear from inspiring English sources

Her works combine humour and psychological acuity with a sharp ear for regional speech patterns.

As a journalist, Harry was wry, charming, and proficient, with a sharp ear for a story.

The novel is sparely written, cool, jaunty, darkly comic, with a sharp ear for voice and manner.

She was a highbrow — her extraordinarily good English was only one of several languages she commanded — with a sharp ear for vulgarity.

It's all done by means of a microphone concealed behind each grille, and a man in the basement, with a sharp ear, and two old-fashioned turntables.

With a sharp ear for melody, a soulful voice, and a knack for bridging genres, she began releasing experimental solo records in 1997.

Like me he spent every evening at the cinema but, unlike me, he went actively, with an alert eye and a sharp ear and an encyclopedic knowledge of actors, directors, screenwriters, even editors and cameramen, and yet he seemed to despise every film he saw, or perhaps he talked only about the films he despised, unwilling to contaminate the films he liked, loved even, by discussing them with me.

He combined a sharp ear for the phrasing of many popular idioms with a relaxed swing and a natural leader's drive.

James Salter clearly has a sharp ear and a fine eye.

He possessed a sharp ear for torch songs and jazz.

Herbie Hancock: he always had a sharp ear for a pop hook.