At the same time the inborn gift of style can be starved or stimulated.

But Josie Pye, if deficient in some qualities that make for popularity, had at least a natural and inborn gift, duly cultivated, for walking board fences.

Tatjana needed no artificial protection from the mental attacks of the Supermutant thanks to her inborn counteractive gift.

He didn't know what to do with his inborn gifts.

It took a man with an inborn gift of mass hypnotism to control the beggars.

I have an inborn gift for raising the dead.

Jennifer Richards points out that the question put forth by De Oratore, namely, can rhetoric be taught or is it an inborn gift, parallels that of The Courtier.

Wee Jock was a taciturn man with an inborn gift for all things mechanical.

Progression depended more on ability than age with great emphasis being placed upon a student's ingenium or inborn "gift" for learning, and a more tacit emphasis on a student's ability to afford high-level education.

There were not many who could summon enough control over their laran to use it; it was not an inborn gift, but one that required both talent and skilled training.