lose the knack

Somewhere along the line, Americans lost the knack, myself included.

And yet he hadn't lost the knack, it sat on him well.

Basically, I just seem to have lost the knack with men.

But they have all lost the knack for making connections.

He also had not lost the knack for getting under the physician's skin.

"Because we lost the knack of making such things," Frost said.

Some screws had not turned in more than 20 years and seemed to have lost the knack.

Well, he may have decided not to program, let alone hack, for a living, but he'd never lost the knack.

"Americans have lost the knack of sitting around and watching the grass grow," he said in an interview.

"Perhaps I have lost the knack of being human, even to pretend.

I'd lost the knack of not making eye contact with vampires.

Men have simply lost the knack, and the old-fashioned man is an endangered species.

To Marigold came some one who had never lost the knack of looking at the world through a child's eyes.

You can lose the knack for it very quickly.

He had lost the knack of kneeling for long hours on hard stones.

Now, when it would have been healthier to direct his attention elsewhere, he'd simply lost the knack.

I tried to smile, but once again, I had lost the knack.

It wasn't precisely what I wanted to say, either, but we seemed to have lost the knack of accurate communication.

I'd lost the knack of keeping my voice in line over the years I'd been away from the court.

Whether it was her presence or whether he'd simply lost the knack, he didn't know.

Then time had become scarce, and she had lost the knack.

But lately the Devils, as a team, have lost the knack of scoring.

Have these theaters lost the knack of connecting with popular musical taste?

I had lost the knack of telling time by sun and sky, but thought it was no more than midafternoon.

But you haven't lost the knack for leading people away from the things you don't want to discuss, I thought.