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.