As a performer, John was a superb communicator, with considerable ability to tell the story of the song.
The model provides users with a base set of assumptions and variable values derived from literature but with considerable ability to vary those assumptions interactively for specific populations.
Again, not someone I'd ever found particularly engaging: formidable, certainly, clever, and someone with considerable cinematic abilities.
Two actors gamely play the principals to the best of their (considerable) abilities.
As a graduate student studying computer music at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, I recall being deeply impressed with CCRMA's ability to leverage (a term found throughout Nelson's book) its geographical location, brainpower, and considerable abilities at grantsmanship.
With her lively mind, Caroline developed into a scholar of considerable ability.
Well, they've got considerable ability with their own tax bases.
Asked whether the tax negotiations with the states – including increasing or broadening the goods and services tax – had to find a way to pay for state-run hospitals, Turnbull said it was "easy for the states to say just jack up the GST … well, they've got considerable ability with their own tax bases".
Inside the arena, Francesco Totti, wearing a knee brace, tried with every morsel of his considerable ability, to lift Roma to stay in the competition.
The Gore campaign has to promote a candidate with plenty of baggage and a considerable ability to irritate people, even within his party's core constituencies.
Lani will return to his home base in Japan, having shown there is considerable ability to go with eccentricities that will not soon be forgotten.
