"Flair" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Virginia, the Reverend John Clayton displayed a distinct flair for the scientific method in his analysis of urine. It is safe to assume that his techniques were of a higher order than those usually associated with uroscopy. Clayton, not satisfied to practice ...
— Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699 • Thomas P. Hughes
... his carefully developed flair for character study, guessed them from the first. Susceptibility to musical intoxication was a thing which he understood, a thing to which he himself was more or less subject. He knew the danger and the value of it. Without some such susceptibility, he believed, artistic ...
— Kildares of Storm • Eleanor Mercein Kelly
... father was head doctor, she had lived in Macon City and had had superior advantages—city life, to Missy, a Cherryvalian from birth, sounded exotic and intriguing. Then Tess in her nature was far from ordinary. She was characterized by a certain dash and fine flair; was inventive, fearless, and possessed the gift of leadership. Missy, seeing how eagerly the other girls of "the crowd" caught up Tess's original ideas, felt enormously flattered when the leader selected such a comparatively stupid girl ...
— Missy • Dana Gatlin
... everyone, looked into all the books that had been talked about, cast at least a glance at all the pictures which had made any stir. And she gathered impressions swiftly, and, moreover, had a natural flair for all that was first-rate, original, or strange. As she was quite independent in mind, and always took her own line, she had become an arbiter, a leader of taste. What she liked soon became liked in London and Paris throughout a large circle. Unfortunately, she was ...
— The Way of Ambition • Robert Hichens |
