Sentence examples for with a singular gift from inspiring English sources

This anthology of sketches was the show that established Mr. Ives as a playwright with a singular gift for turning writerly self-consciousness into short-form intellectual slapstick.

The laserlike focus of the young Tiger Woods was a singular gift, and his practice routine with his father may be replicable, if at all, once in a generation.

I remember thinking von Trier had a singular gift for provocation when I attended a press screening of The Idiots (1998), that culminated with a journalist stomping off during the final credits shouting, "Bollocks!" repeatedly.

Five Roane County residents making the rounds on Capitol Hill on Wednesday brought U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer a singular gift - a mason jar full of Tennessee Valley Authority fly ash sludge.

Yet he possessed a singular gift: a knack for riling up those who nurse gripes and are keen to pin the blame on someone or something.

Effective leaders start with their singular gifts and build on them.

Serena Wieder, a clinical psychologist who was the council's co-founder, said Dr. Greenspan's singular gift in dealing with little children "was to get that connection, that gleam in the eye".

He could have simply said the movie was a popcorn picture or praised Bekmambetov's singular gift for grisly mayhem.

This is Tracy Chevalier's singular gift: through the particular perspectives of a few finely drawn characters, she is able to evoke entire landscapes.

Carson's singular gift for resuscitating the ancient theme of desire is complicated by a postmodern habit of pastiche and fragmentation.

Those doubts segued into doubts about the origin of language – man's singular gift – that he believes was not the product of evolution but a man-made tool.