Zusak has a gift for playing with expectations and tropes.
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Real Housewives of New York's Carole Radziwill has a gift.
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Duolingo has a gift for nerds: a free Klingon course.
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He has a gift for finding perfectly chosen, singular images.
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President Donald Trump has a gift for telling deadly serious jokes.
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And CNET has a gift guide for today's cyber shoppers HERE.
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You've got to hand it to Trump: He has a gift.
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Every person living with autism has a gift, they have an affinity.
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"Storms aside, Ryan has a gift for connecting with animals," says Tiffany.
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Not to be outdone, Andrew says he has a gift for Margery.
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"She has a gift for getting the best work out of people."
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And Ms. Hartman indisputably has a gift for capturing the spontaneous moment.
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The center also has a gift shop that sells art and t-shirts.
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Ms Obreht has a gift for vivid language and deft stories-within-stories.
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It's officially December — and Mindy Kaling has a gift for Office fans everywhere.
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London has a gift for depicting physicality — brutal fights, delicious food, muscled bodies.
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L'Engle has a gift for baiting intellectual hooks, for making life feel irresistibly mysterious.
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The author has a gift for creating chiaroscuro portraits, capturing both light and dark.
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McGregor has a gift of gab that reminds some of the young Muhammad Ali.
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The author clearly loves the natural world and has a gift for describing it.
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She has a gift for cruelty, the authority that comes with spotting others' weaknesses.
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Lee has a gift for the well-observed generalization, but a related tendency to oversummarize.
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I always compared myself to that image: the guy who has talent, has a gift.
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Betty also has a gift for Jughead – I guess we'll see what they are later?
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He has a gift for ingratiating himself into very foreign surroundings and teasing out stories.
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I think he has a gift for that—in fact, I see a rarified talent.
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Warrick "has a gift for constructing narratives with a novelistic energy and detail," she wrote.
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He's unpredictable, quick-witted, and has a gift for cutting his opponents to their core.
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Like Feldman, Houben has a gift for evoking huge spaces with a smattering of notes.
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What is clear is this dog has a gift for canine crooning and keeping a beat.
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And he tells me to reach under my seat, that he has a gift for them.
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Stibbe has a gift for summoning the high-octane low-attention-span pimplefest that is adolescence.
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Head & Shoulders, the maker of anti-dandruff shampoos, has a gift for French President Emmanuel Macron.
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Black, a longtime correspondent and editor for The Guardian of London, has a gift for summary.
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Even his admirers concede that Mr. Trump, a consummate showman, has a gift for tactical distraction.
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He has a gift for making, and more importantly keeping, close friends, John McCain among them.
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Nordstrom even has a Gift Finder tool that lets you create an entirely new, customized shopping list.
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Jungermann has a gift for physical comedy, bolstered by her curiously impassive facial expressions and understated delivery.
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DiSclafani excels at building suspense and has a gift for revealing private worlds through unexpected, telling details.
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But she also has a gift for wit and metaphor that turns the ordinary on its head.
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He has a gift for narrative, for making a song feel like a procession of suspenseful events.
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All it touches is this woman who has a gift, a skill to help these folks along.
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"That's when I realized he has a gift," said his mother, who was watching from the pool deck.
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After all, she has a gift that practically no one else in Westeros has: She can steal faces.
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And Uncle Jimmie has a gift that's fucking phenomenal—his use of language to state what's harsh and raw.
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The store has a gift wrapping station and a small assortment of cards for occasions like birthdays and anniversaries.
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Your mind has a gift for organization, and you're an excellent researcher who can easily spot patterns and links.
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Mr. Stern has a gift for exposition, explaining the confusing geopolitics of the region with a blessed — and welcome — lucidity.
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"She has a gift for foresight," he said of his onetime "Green Lantern" co-star, who he wed in 2012.
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Greenfield doesn't explain how she secured her remarkable access, though she clearly has a gift for wrangling the self-obsessed.
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Heatherwick has a gift for discovering, in a commission for an object, the opportunity for an event: movement, spectacle, play.
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Love the book or not, there's no denying that Jemc has a gift for making you want to keep reading.
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Lukaku has a gift for languages: Before arriving in Italy, he spoke six, and could get by in German, too.
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Like popular internet memes, Coel has a gift for finding common ground in even the most niche cultural jokes and experiences.
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A man of humility and openness, he has a gift for listening, showing respect and deference to all whom he meets.
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He has a gift, and he has a talent, and he like, goes for it, and he doesn't apologize for it.
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MacNeil has a gift for allowing her subjects to both conceal and reveal, revealing bald truth and quiet grace at once.
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Shelley Marshaun Massenburg-Smith has a gift for being precisely that drunk guy and still making you want to hang out.
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Walker has a gift for spooling out these kinds of details, as if we are kittens and she is trailing string.
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She has a gift, too, for capturing the blurriness of young lives, how easily at that age we bleed into others.
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It's a fancy Mexican restaurant in Boston's Back Bay and he hints at the fact he has a gift for me.
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The director, Thomas Vinterberg, "has a gift for evoking the atavistic side of human nature," Stephen Holden wrote in The Times.
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Mr. Klein is aided inestimably by his cinematographer, Bobby Shore, who has a gift for dark, voluptuous compositions and impressionistic flourishes.
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Trump gave a lengthy shout-out to Sessions, the 69-year-old senator who has said Trump has a "gift," Bloomberg reports.
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Amazon has a gift for the back-to-school set in the form of drastically reduced prices on its subscription music service.
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The Easter Bunny has a gift for Tesla owners: a simple way to find Easter eggs hidden in the electric car's interface.
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YouTube's Sculpture_Geek has a gift: he takes piles of clay and slowly, painstakingly shapes them into intricate sculptures of fan-favorite characters.
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The Russian filmmaker Alexander Sokurov has a gift, perhaps unmatched among his international peers, for turning intellectual brooding into visually arresting cinema.
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Bob Nelson, who wrote the script (as well as the Oscar-nominated screenplay for Alexander Payne's "Nebraska"), has a gift for understatement.
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He has a gift for W.W.E.-style publicity stunts: Last year he "won" a televised bout with an Olympic wrestler from Ukraine.
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But Kaplan has a gift for elucidating abstract concepts, cutting through national security jargon and showing how leaders confront (or avoid) dilemmas.
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But another would be to say that Mr. Lisicky has a gift for understanding suffering, an added bundle of receptors for detecting loneliness.
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Patrick O'Brien has a gift for his 8-year-old son, Sean, this Father's Day – one that took him 10 years to create.
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Mr Ronson, though, has a gift for synthesising the contributions of others into something coherent, and he clearly sticks with people he trusts.
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But anyone who has watched her eulogy to her former husband Sonny Bono has seen that she has a gift for moving audiences.
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The director, Thomas Vinterberg, "has a gift for evoking the atavistic side of human nature," Stephen Holden wrote in The New York Times.
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Mr. Cohen has a gift for plumbing the depths of ignorance, and other people's rank stupidity has been both his target and weapon.
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Mr. Burke has a gift for malapropisms — "it's a weight of time" — and a nice way of making ordinary words go twisty-turny.
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"Nik has a gift for spinning these flavors he grew up with into entirely new creations that are accessible yet unexpected," she said.
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"It's expected and it looks really bad if you go to a shower and everyone has a gift but you," Ms. Pollak said.
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But she believes that she has a gift for comforting people at the end of their lives, a desired quality in her profession.
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She has a gift for making strangers feel at home, which is lucky for her campaign, since its headquarters is her dining room table.
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Hagit (Moran Rosenblatt), who has a gift for constructing small models out of paper, yearns for autonomy, and most of all for a husband.
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He has a gift for concocting memorable phrases seemingly off the cuff, and if he goes into politics, heaven help his opponents in debates.
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And she, too, has a gift for winning her subjects' trust, whether at a Beverly Hills high school or on a Beijing polo field.
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He has a gift for the strategically deployed profanity, and writes dialogue so musical and realistic you'll hear it in the air around you.
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Ms. Warren plainly has a gift for making her charges feel like part of a grander mission, for connecting her story to their own.
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Not only is Amash a conservative, he is a very effective questioner and has a gift for rooting his analysis in core constitutional concerns.
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From performance art to documentaries on queer women, including Elizabeth Bishop and Hannah Höch, Hammer has a gift for intimate, nuanced, and visually striking storytelling.
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Harari, a historian at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has a gift for synthesizing material from a wide range of disciplines in inspired, exhilarating ways.
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Iyer, who has a gift for capturing the cadence of the young, charts the overlap between the philosophers he reveres and the juveniles he teaches.
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Thermes has a gift not only for rendering delicate watercolor, colored pencil and ink illustrations but for narrating history in a way that inspires wonder.
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Comedian John Oliver has a gift: He knows how to take a popular, polarizing subject — FIFA corruption, gun control, net neutrality — and crush it to smithereens.
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He only received his BFA from that school this year, but it's clear he has a gift and a passion for exploring sexuality, identity, and trauma.
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Cissy Houston reminds her daughter that she has a gift from God that Abdul will never have, and the young woman snuggles into her mom's arms.
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This time the resident rogue is Arthur, played with easy, low-wattage charisma by Charlie Hunnam, who has a gift for delivering nonsense without seeming embarrassed.
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He has loads of enemies, but by many accounts he has a gift for personal friendship and, unlike his three immediate predecessors, a deep political base.
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He has loads of enemies, but by many accounts he has a gift for personal friendship and, unlike his three immediate predecessors, a deep political base.
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He has a gift for inspiring audiences when talking about complicated ideas, which, he said, came from years trying to keep undergraduates awake during lectures on economics.
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From cashmere lounge pants to boob-printed bath mats, we're betting our favorite one-stop-shop has a gift that everyone special in your life will adore.
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"She has a gift and we were so grateful that she shared it with our shelter pets," Christen Benson, executive director of the Sarasota shelter, tells PEOPLE.
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He may not be the one that does the analysis or writes code for the algorithm, but he has a gift that is very rare to see.
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Madden has a gift for salient detail, as in a poignant scene in which her mother surprises her acrophobic father with a birthday hot-air-balloon ride.
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But as he demonstrated in his gripping parliamentary procedural docudrama, "This House," Mr. Graham has a gift for finding the human crackle in ostensibly dry political business.
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The author also has a gift for bringing luxury to life: She conjures Moda Operandi's London showroom so vividly that I felt as though I'd moved in.
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Shreve has a gift for making the mundane engaging; Grace's excursion to Biddeford to look for a used car is nearly as interesting as her romantic life.
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He has a gift for casting talent and for conveying the intimacy of a shared endeavor, whether the focus is on two men or an entire SWAT team.
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For those familiar with Blige's work as the reigning Queen of Hip-Hop Soul, there's no question that Blige has a gift for channeling her pain into art.
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Phasma's signature armor "was redesigned and made for movement," says Gwendoline Christie, the 6-foot-3 Game of Thrones knight who has a gift for playing towering fighters.
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And while Heigl is joking about the gifts her kids might give her on Sunday, it looks like Kelley has a gift of his own for little Joshua.
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If Mr. King takes a little longer to settle into the wary and ingenuous Gabe, he has a gift for physical humor, especially in a brief dance sequence.
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For you, The New York Times Magazine has a gift, a special section in the print issue of The Times today devoted entirely to children and their interests.
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A reason to stick around: Like Bechdel, Evaristo has a gift for appraising the lives of her characters with sympathy and grace while gently skewering some of their pretensions.
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Becker is equally humanizing; his portraits can be amusing and off the cuff (tattoos and breasts included), and he has a gift for making the densest decoration look fresh.
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Key West in 1934 is a memorable backdrop, and Holm has a gift for rooting history in the very details kids might notice if they walked into the past.
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The director Jeremy Saulnier has a gift for seizing your attention with arresting, harmoniously balanced images that somehow seem to either briefly slow down or even freeze a movie.
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Erg pushes himself into some new and intrepid songwriting territory, aided by the production of Jeff Rosenstock, who has a gift for bringing out the darkness in people's songs.
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Glassblower Jochen Holz, 45, has a gift for transmogrifying the utilitarian, like turning borosilicate — a glass commonly used for laboratory equipment — into ghostly shaped vases, jugs and neon light fixtures.
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Ben Carson, the soft-voiced neurosurgeon whose campaign seems particularly hopeless at the moment, may not have much chance at becoming president, but he has a gift for generating controversy.
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Anyway, Wheeler — a word snob who has a gift for stating home truths that nobody else dares utter — soon has the audience in the palm of his 11 ½-sized hand.
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But Mr. Mungiu, one of the crucial figures in the post-dictatorship flowering of Romanian cinema, has a gift for infusing daily routines with an almost metaphysical sense of dread.
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Ben Brantley wrote that Harris ("Is God Is") "has a gift for pushing the familiar to surreally logical extremes" and that her piece is "truly sui generis, truly remarkable."themovementtheatrecompany.org
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Just a couple weeks later, Drake told MTV that he had nothing but love for Ri, "an overwhelming and incredible person" who just has a gift for making him feel inadequate.
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He still has a gift for deconstructing language, in phrases like "losing your appetite" or in the quirks of modern marketing (he marvels at the chutzpah of naming a cereal Life).
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Kate Hamill, the author of a rollicking, heartfelt "Sense and Sensibility" and a naughty and frantic "Vanity Fair," has a gift for condensing three-volume novels into galloping two-act plays.
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Mr. Holter, a Chicago-based writer whose "Hit the Wall," about the Stonewall uprising, was seen in New York, has a gift for sharp characterization and crisply funny dialogue with jagged edges.
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Like Trump, he has a gift of talking like a regular person, not a politician, and it's easy to imagine him going toe-to-toe with the President on a debate stage.
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Alice Cooper, looking every bit the respectable housewife without a shred of Serpentry insight, is home icing cookies when Betty walks in and Alice tells her she has a gift from Secret Santa.
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She has a gift for introducing details that bring out a character's quirks and perspective, and she put it to good use in the monologues, which are generally addressed to another, silent character.
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" McCann has a gift for quoting others at their most flatulent: "The only interesting thing is to live, said Mitterand"; "Hertzl wrote: If you divide death by life, you will find a circle.
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I've got a couple takers, and one of my friends has a gift card for a spot that's close to all of us, so we agree to meet for a quick drink after work.
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There will even be a walking trail to connect the house with the center of town, which has a gift shop inside the old movie theater and a museum inside the old administrative building.
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Egan has a gift for sweeping narrative — he moves briskly through the Great Hunger, the open-air prison that was Australia, the Civil War — and he has a journalist's eye for the telltale detail.
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His range as an actor may be limited, but he has a gift for projecting resolve and decency with an overlay of grouchiness — like a TV-scale, less charismatic Tom Hanks or Jimmy Stewart.
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Neil Cross, who created the show and still writes it, has a gift for packaging the lurid and the preposterous into hypnotizing psychodrama that moves fast enough to keep you from thinking too hard.
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But there's more to acting than the Method, telegraphed anguish and dropping (or adding) pounds, and while Pitt can go big — he's played Achilles and a serial killer — he has a gift for understatement.
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And if you don't know any super fans of the cartoon series, the curated shop even has a gift guide filled with hundreds of products that are inspired by each of the Peanuts characters.
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Ms. Kidman has a gift for seeming utterly natural in the most artificial of settings, and here, as in "The Beguiled" and "Dogville," she brings fresh air to the hothouse of a director's imagination.
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That's not to say it's all straight up and down: as a lyricist, she also has a gift for making observations which, placed inside her songs, hang in the air with the glitter of nostalgia.
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Our reviewer wrote: "Shreve has a gift for making the mundane engaging," comparing her to Liane Moriarty for her penchant for "spicing up domestic doings in beachfront settings with terrible husbands and third-act twists."
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The character here certainly has a gift for dubious choices and bad company, including a singer portentously named Dead (Jack Kilmer, exuding low-key, melancholic charisma), and a creepy enthusiast, Kristian Vikernes (Emory Cohen), a.k.a.
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Michôd has a gift for screen violence and is generally good with actors, yet time and again your attention drifts from Hal-Henry to the story's edges, where the supporting actors nibble at their tasty bits.
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" John Stipanovich, a Republican strategist in Florida with ties to the Bush family, lamented to The Hill that Trump "has a gift for gaffes that has expanded the boundaries of ineptitude to a previously unimaginable extent.
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A two-time Oscar nominee (for writing the screenplay to Soderbergh's Out of Sight and for co-writing the Wolverine movie Logan), Frank has a gift for investing seemingly tawdry, juvenile stories with complicated characters and emotions.
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Thomas has a gift for interior monologues that flow steadily and easily, carrying you through a character's mental landscape, full of vivid imagery and digressions that flirt with spinning out of control but never quite go too far.
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It turns out that in addition to painting California pools, Hockney has a gift for communicating his kidlike enthusiasm for works of art that many of us have seen so many times we don't really see them anymore.
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As talented as Mr. Deakins is at pulling off stunning wide shots, he has a gift for this kind of framing, putting his characters in center frame and using the environment around them to help tell the story.
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She mostly does smaller things these days, butterflies and moths and the occasional pigeon chick when they break their necks on the balcony in spring, but the frogs are what first made me realise that she has a gift.
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This is the first middle-grade novel by Ally Condie, the author of the best-selling Matched series for teenagers, and she has a gift for expressing complex feelings in clear and lovely images that younger readers can grasp.
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It is a rare novelist who can approach the unspeakable with restorative humor, but Burns has a gift for dismantling and reconstructing things on her own quixotic terms, as she suggests with the perfectly chosen title for this book.
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Aside from pass defending, Norman has a gift for antagonism and verbal sparring, so all eyes are on his matchup with top receiver Antonio Brown, who assured the media he plans to keep a level head no matter what Norman does.
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She also has a gift for molding and coloring marzipan; in a charming display, almond-paste lambs lying in a pasture of cellophane grass were surrounded by "figs" and "apricots" that looked for all the world like real figs and apricots.
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Mr. Carrey, the human Looney Tune who turned sad clown in films like the Andy Kaufman biopic "Man on the Moon," has a gift for showing both the outward performance and the inner mania that sustains or fights against it.
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The director Debra Granik has a gift for cinematic spaces that are vibrantly, palpably alive, and for putting you in places, whether modest homes or the great outdoors, that make you feel as if you're standing right alongside her characters.
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Mr. Van Der Beek has a gift for playing this kind of cocky boor, but when the show introduces him saying, "God Bless Ronald Reagan" while hoovering lines of coke, it manages to be both on and up the nose.
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Off-White c/o Virgil Abloh The American designer Virgil Abloh, who holds degrees in architecture and civil engineering, has a gift for marketing, which he has shown off to good effect as the creative director for Kanye West's fashion foray.
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He's amusing to look at, for one thing, what with his fish-out-of-water hip-hop threads, and has a gift for bolts from the blue, like the bad-boy haikus he creates (and recites) as part of his therapeutic training.
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Clinton's allies have floated several options: Representative Joseph Crowley of New York, who is from Queens, where Mr. Trump grew up; James Carville, Mr. Clinton's chief strategist in 1992, who has a gift for lacerating banter; or Mark Cuban, another billionaire businessman.
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A firm believer in training methods that were once far outside convention, like extreme long toss and weighted balls, he has rankled some with his iconoclastic views and has a gift for getting under the skin of even his own teammates on occasion.
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Bryan has a gift for his beloved: "Bryan & Rachel's Spanish Dictionary" comes with a little handwritten — suuuure, that's really Bryan's handwriting if the fantasy suite invitations are really Chris Harrison's handwriting — cheat sheet of keywords like marido (husband), siempre (forever), salto de fey (leap of faith).
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If you listen, you'll probably find yourself amazed that you spent over four hours listening to a guy talk about the Mongol khans or World War I, but Carlin has a gift for illuminating some of the most interesting yet least talked about moments in history.
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Allmon has a gift for horses, but it is through his own infernal deal that he lands the job of caring for the horse of Henry's dreams, the inbred issue of a son and daughter of Secretariat: Hellsmouth, a filly, who is headed for the 2006 Kentucky Derby.
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She has a gift that goes beyond her impeccable taste and uncanny ability to know the kind of writing that readers will respond to — she makes the literary world a more inclusive and exciting place, one filled with the kind of work that challenges and inspires, just like Jones does herself.
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"She will be an asset to any television (or other) network who is seeking an exceptional journalist who has a gift of finding the right angle to a story or interview," said Eric Bolling, a former Fox News personality who now hosts a national affairs show for Sinclair Broadcast Group.
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He has a gift for sniffing out where true power lies, and his doggedness brings him to bathroom meetings among N.F.L. owners and sideline chats with the league's commissioner, Roger Goodell, whose primary duty, it often seems, is to shield the N.F.L. from an endless string of controversies surrounding the sport's violence, on and off the field.
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Gunaratne has a gift for inhabiting the lives of his characters, and has used that gift here to give voice to Londoners who are not often seen in contemporary fiction, and who will recognize themselves in this very fine novel — wearing the same trainers, speaking the same road slang, rolling out of the same school gates.
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THE SECOND SLEEPBy Robert Harris As a novelist, Robert Harris has a gift of immersing readers in an unfamiliar milieu, and thrilling them with the subsequent emotional, physical and ethical challenges faced by the protagonist as he (and it is always he) navigates mounting obstacles to a supposedly routine task — and, in the process, unearths unexpected truths.
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Each one is packed with essential items such as toothpaste and shampoo as well as some luxuries including perfume and jewelry and has a gift tag with a supportive message and the project's name 'Love Grace X'. The family has received hundreds of messages about the project since the sentencing, including from victims and companies looking to run appeals, said O'Callaghan.
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Each one is packed with essential items such as toothpaste and shampoo as well as some luxuries including perfume and jewelry and has a gift tag with a supportive message and the project's name 'Love Grace X'. The family has received hundreds of messages about the project since the sentencing, including from victims and companies looking to run appeals, said O'Callaghan.
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Though directed and written by men (the script was written by David Kajganich, who has a gift for horror — he's also behind the upcoming Stephen King film, Pet Sematary) what's striking about Suspiria is its distinctly feminine energy Women make up the entire cast — the decision to have Swinton fill the only male lead role was intentional — and the issues at stake feel just as relevant today than they did in 1977.
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