Like many men who take life easily, he had the knack of saying a home truth occasionally to those who felt themselves virtuously out of temper.
"It happened that I had a knack for drawing.
Evans's, you know, for she is a professional, and I'm only a schoolgirl, with a little knack of reciting.
Diana did Anne's front hair in the new pompadour style and Anne tied Diana's bows with the especial knack she possessed; and they experimented with at least half a dozen different ways of arranging their back hair.
And if it isn't carried in just a certain way the handle pulls out—so I'd better keep it because I know the exact knack of it.
She never had any skates of her own, but some of the other girls had lent her theirs and she seemed to have a natural knack of it.
Barney was an interesting talker, with a knack of telling a great deal about his adventures and nothing at all about himself.
Diligence and attention soon gave him the knack of it, and he strode down the street with his mouth full of harmony and his soul full of gratitude.
"Dad had a knack for getting people in the mood for his music.
Emotional intelligence means a capacity for self-honesty and self-observation; it means, a knack for opening oneself up to the stranger, more exciting, less easily admissible aspects of oneself and at the same time for noticing the many beautiful, peculiar and profound experiences and sensations passing through consciousness.
"I just seem to have a knack for memorizing star fields," he told me, ".
You have a knack for empathy, and can often be found taking care of others.
After all, the industrial style has a knack of exposing structures such as pipes and beams for a raw, unfinished look while the minimalist school of thought has the aim of burying excessive details for a clean and refined aesthetic.
Working with the glass photographic plates their male colleagues used to capture images from the night sky, these "women with a knack for figures" calculated star positions, relative brightness, motion, and chemical content.
Steve Knack, an economist at the World Bank with a long-standing interest in trust, once told me that if one takes a broad enough view of trust, "it would explain basically all the difference between the per capita income of the United States and Somalia".
"Regional sales executives are stellar communicators with a knack for spotting opportunities," the report says.
Cheng, 39, has a knack for brushing aside conventions and edicts, like so many pie crumbs from a cutting board.
You have a knack for empathy, and can often be found taking care of others.
Knack for nurturing connections 3.
Feminine but strong, charming but never coy, you have a knack for looking fabulous with a minimum of effort.
