"ability" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Virtually all new programming efforts over the last decade have focused on cable services, with their enviable ability to attract both national advertising and fees from local cable operators.
- The young composer has at least one enviable ability: It is not easy, in a time when convention no longer provides formal structures, to write persuasive and coherent half-hour spans.
- Finally, all of the above were exacerbated by the communist's enviable ability to adapt their doctrine and tactics and to turn weaknesses into strengths.
- This much may be said of Teniers, that no painter shows a more enviable ability to render a conception to his own and other people's satisfaction.
- Her enviable ability with languages, tenacious manner, and keen eye for detail made Claudia a shoo-in for the Bundespolizei, the investigative affairs division of the Bundesanwaltschaft.
- Gwaay possessed that enviable ability to do all things well, with little exertion and less practice.
- Mr. Waters must have the lightest touch in Hollywood, an enviable and perhaps unnerving ability to wring belly laughs out of grief, ethical difficulty and medical horror.
- She demonstrates an enviable ability to capture in small vignettes the very English quality of 'hanging on in quiet desperation'.
- He had this enviable ability to avoid thinking seriously about anything he did.
- He positively brims with charm, suggesting that, like the proverbial Don, he has the enviable ability to turn it on at just the right moment.
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