Models tend to have a preternatural gift for dressing themselves.
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Each stands at least seven feet tall with preternatural gifts.
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But Las Vegas has a preternatural ability to regenerate itself.
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The president has a preternatural confidence in his own instincts.
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The Los Angeles native had a preternatural knack for finding talent.
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It means radiating a preternatural calmness that permeates the locker room.
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Now she is turning her preternatural competence to publishing at large.
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He said she had a preternatural ability to connect with students.
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But Jessica has a preternatural knack for finding needles in haystacks.
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Step two: Grant them with a preternatural sense of independence and maturity.
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But conventional logic is little match for the preternatural greatness of Kershaw.
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The unreality of her work was perhaps pointing to something preternatural, transcendent.
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Of course, the idea that disability begets preternatural abilities is nothing new.
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Clearly it's not just those preternatural good looks that run in the family.
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They possess a sort of preternatural political ability, but also a political paranoia.
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For one, they imagine a preternatural world that people have gracefully adjusted to.
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Or is this a petulant man who has a preternatural gift for trolling?
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Instead, I've been in a state of almost preternatural calm since the election.
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Guinn says Jones' preternatural charisma, resourcefulness and political instincts would play in any era.
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He is 6 feet 1 and rawboned, with a preternatural ease on the court.
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Her preternatural influence on and in fashion is felt materially, with her use of textures.
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Stefani does all of this with a preternatural grace and self-possession that we envy.
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The president, you know, judge, has a preternatural capacity to read individuals very, very rapidly.
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And a preternatural ability to see the magic in the workings of everything around him.
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If we seemed to have a preternatural gift for target shooting, our father never noticed.
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This perhaps accounts for the preternatural good nature of the crowd at AT&T Park.
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Even the woman with the preternatural fear of everything in the room was won over.
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They took audience questions, ate a quick cafeteria lunch, dismantled the set with preternatural efficiency.
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"There is a distinct genetic quality to Ivanka's preternatural ability to self-promote," Fox writes.
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In the news conference afterward, Gauff flashed a mix of preternatural calm and teenage giddiness.
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If Brexit also goes wrong, the new bank chief will also need some preternatural gifts.
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But the president's preternatural ability to shed fallout from his own words may have its limits.
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Now, Urban embodies Bones's cranky essence as confidently and effortlessly as Quinto exudes Spock's preternatural calm.
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States other than California have shown a preternatural ability to bungle the teaching of minority history.
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Tversky "had this preternatural ability to never do anything he didn't want to do," Lewis says.
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"I can't remember names," he told me, yet his recall for the spoken word is preternatural.
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The man seems to have a preternatural ability to find the net on a set piece.
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And where the suspended mobiles undulate with preternatural elegance, the motorized works can look winningly wobbly.
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This, Hassabis says, demonstrates the power of reinforcement learning and the preternatural ability of DeepMind's computer programs.
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DeShong sang with preternatural loveliness of tone and nimbleness of execution, though not with Horne-like panache.
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As of today, Balkowitsch has made 2,653 wet plates, and done so with a preternatural photographer's touch.
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As of today, Balkowitsch has made 2,172 wet plates, and done so with a preternatural photographer's touch.
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She has the might of a full orchestra, and preternatural clarity despite the volatility of Beethoven's score.
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Today, on a sunny June day, it's a rude passerby who almost disrupts her unfailing preternatural calm.
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The kundalini teacher, like so many people here, has the preternatural glow possessed by intensely healthy humans.
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Tversky in particular "had this preternatural ability to never do anything he didn't want to do," Lewis explains.
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He already had sledgehammer hands, an arsenal of submissions, and a preternatural ability to avoid and inflict pain.
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Their assembly out of detritus clues us into his preternatural sense of the disposables of our everyday world.
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That was embarrassing: Mr Trump's gassy claim to be a preternatural "winner" makes him look silly in defeat.
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With preternatural calm, Fermi stood up and let some strips of paper flutter away as the wave passed.
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Oiticica's feel for spatial arrangement and proportion, developed in his early painting and sculpture, is just about preternatural.
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Lawler originally assumed that Choudhury's interest in her was due to some preternatural talent she possessed for yoga.
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She disarmed busybodies and browbeaters with preternatural self-confidence and an innate survival instinct that could turn ferocious.
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Gogol possessed a preternatural gift for imagining evil, which drove him to see dismembered bodies and distorted faces.
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Virtually everything that's been written about chef Iliana Regan has mentioned her preternatural relationship with nature and foraging.
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As someone who was that girl, I recognize the feeling, but not the preternatural ability to articulate it.
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Man's distinctiveness has been attributed to an aptitude for violence, exceptional intelligence or a preternatural ability to co-operate.
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The 44th president is known for his preternatural calm and the perhaps excessive charity he shows to political opponents.
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As shown by the Netflix documentary, "Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened", Mr McFarland was a preternatural salesman.
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From the kids' super-serious expressions, to their preternatural skills, to their carbon-copy uniforms, it's surreal to watch.
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Mendes's trust in his instincts and his preternatural self-assurance still allow him to cheerfully seek out new challenges.
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From his father, Vlad Jr. inherited more than just preternatural hand-eye coordination, brute strength, and uncanny bat control.
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They were drawn to his frame, long and projectable, but more so to the preternatural polish in his game.
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McCaffrey, the son of former Broncos wide receiver Ed McCaffrey, has an absolutely preternatural ability to catch and run.
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Young women in particular have a preternatural understanding of what men want, which is mostly humiliation via text messages.
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A preternatural inclination for tasteful Etsy cross-stitches and vintage art prints is of course not coded into female DNA.
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Her preternatural diving skills have made her a skilled harvester of geoducks, a massive clam that looks oddly like genitalia.
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But Mr Hilmes is illuminating on the emergence—and continuance into old age—of Liszt's preternatural gifts as a pianist.
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In the first of many magical events, Green discovers a preternatural ability to speak in a "white" voice (David Cross).
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In Anna's case, all that we have to go on is her word, plus the preternatural calm of her demeanor.
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She has an almost preternatural sense of what she has to do to remain the biggest star on planet Earth.
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She in turn serves as vessel for their insecurities, lust and rage, and attends to their kinks with preternatural skill.
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What we do not need to do is fill in the explanatory gaps with gods or any such preternatural forces.
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Hogancamp also photographs the scenes he creates, with an almost preternatural sense for how to pose them to represent real life.
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But, as his premiere collection that debuted in Milan this week proved, the British designer possesses a preternatural talent for clothes.
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If history is any guide, the preternatural chemistry that the makes the Warriors such a juggernaut isn't going to last, either.
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They are no doubt gifted, not with magical powers, but with a keen, almost preternatural understanding of human nature and psychology.
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Documenting a similar preternatural poise, "Primary" is less an image of history unfolding than it is the history of an image.
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Leafy, whose real name is Calvin Vail, is a 20-year-old gamer from Utah with a preternatural gift for clickbait.
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Now, as in Little League, Davis seems to possess a preternatural calm and poise on the court and the playing field.
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His preternatural composure and political instincts helped him raise more campaign funds than anyone during the second quarter of this year.
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As a lover of music, I focus on Parker's preternatural artistry won through the freedom that comes only from self-mastery.
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Everyone also knew that he could be trusted with power because he had demonstrated such a preternatural flair for surrendering it.
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But he filled every idle moment practicing on the guitar that a musician had given him after noticing his preternatural ability.
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Combined with a preternatural compositional fluency, this allows him to portray the mood and undercurrents of texts with striking musical effects.
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Philo's historic knack for volume, layering, unapologetic prints and general sense of irony all infused the brand with a preternatural icon status.
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In Texas Beto O'Rourke's preternatural political gifts and hard work have forced Ted Cruz into a tougher campaign than he probably expected.
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Like the magic present in his earlier paintings, a strange geometry infuses the later work; Soriano was always interested in preternatural luminosity.
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They both have doting, indulgent mothers, who believed they could do no wrong and instilled in them both a preternatural self confidence.
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Mr. Starr was the special prosecutor who pursued President Bill Clinton's indiscretions and moral shortcomings with almost preternatural zeal back in 1998.
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Between us we carried a 28-pound backpack, two ropes, a rack of gear and a preternatural belief that bordered on magical.
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Marshall has a preternatural feel for building life out of torpid textures, whether he's playing with hip-hop or off-kilter jazz.
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I once went to an internist twice, complaining of preternatural exhaustion, only to be told that I was depressed and sent home.
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He had a preternatural gift for drawing, and now he'd learn how things were cut, and what to do with the scraps.
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Marianne Preger-Simon, on the other hand, writes the gentle "Dancing With Merce Cunningham" from a position of preternatural acceptance and love.
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His paintings, which helped inspire the Primitivist art movement, saw Polynesian femininity as representing some preternatural connection between body, soul, and land.
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The work aphoristically transcribes insights glimpsed in a moment of visionary clarity, when the poet's mind was flooded with a preternatural light.
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Yet he's thrived anyway thanks to a preternatural sense of timing and a hockey I.Q. gleaned from a lifetime around the game.
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HOUSTON — Since he was a young child in his native Venezuela, Gleyber Torres has displayed a preternatural ability to defy his age.
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Hardy arranged for Ramanujan to travel to England and became his mentor, striving to convince others of the young man's preternatural gifts.
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To their credit, they did so following a live-streamed event where she demonstrated her preternatural mouse skills for all to see.
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LeBron's preternatural combination of length, brawn, speed, awareness, athleticism, and acumen was supposed to grant him dominion over the league, and it did.
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His wardrobe both telegraphs the preternatural calm of a seeker and throws off the distinct whiff of joy he leaves in his wake.
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Mr. Obama seemed stretched thin by his two central tenets: a preternatural dedication to civility and a promise to fundamentally change corrupt systems.
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And while she was full of love, without a doubt, she also had an almost preternatural ability to make you feel like garbage.
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But Mr. Powell said that to his surprise, the civil service showed an almost preternatural capacity to fall in behind its new masters.
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White women have been cast as weak and helpless, while black women are depicted as possessing a preternatural strength and animalistic physical prowess.
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Archival footage reveals a patient, withdrawn child whose preternatural way with numbers made him a genius at chess and a pariah in school.
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The Black Skulls have obtained seemingly preternatural strength and resilience through hyper-concentrated hallucinogens, which they accept (alongside human sacrifice) in exchange for service.
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Ambitious storytellers with bucketloads of conviction, a little snarl, and a seemingly preternatural understanding of powerpop melodies, The Thermals never really lost their touch.
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Over a number of years working in the industry, I have developed a preternatural ability to determine people's personalities based on what they drink.
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His superpower, more than his alarming athleticism, or his preternatural lack of fear, or his inexhaustible work ethic, was his ability to spin hate.
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A number of especially romantic paintings are notable for their brushy, atmospheric depths; they depict more-or-less real objects overwhelmed by preternatural forces.
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" The evening ended on a preternatural high as Sam Hunt appeared on stage to perform a wildly gender-bending rendition of McEntire's hit, "Fancy.
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And it all comes through with little interruption from the hosts, who absorb whatever blasts through the telephone with a preternatural unflappability and calm.
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Mack, it turns out, has something of a preternatural knack for describing and conversing about the universe in a way that resonates with non-scientists.
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To see the Fey it's believed that you must have, as the Irish say, "the sight;" a preternatural gift to see beyond the human plane.
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"Her driving of her band's songs and rhythm is propulsive, unstoppable, preternatural," Tom Tom's Katy Otto wrote in 2011, soon after Hozoji first started diving.
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For serial sexual harassers, the preternatural sense of entitlement that leads them to prey on weaker individuals in the first place is a consistent thread.
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Her star power is probably the best thing to come out of the reimagining, given her preternatural poise and ability to speak truth to power.
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The path from suburbia to dystopia is narrated by an unnamed teen-ager with a fractured family, preternatural poise, and an appreciation for good diners.
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Indeed, on balance, the trip represents, yet again, the administration's preternatural commitment to fulfilling campaign promises to Trump's political base over strategic foreign policy interests.
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Over the previous three years, Real Madrid had been uncharacteristically calm, its swirling political intrigue and near-continual backstage infighting doused by Zidane's preternatural cool.
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We know that among animals they are uniquely attentive to the human gaze, but their preternatural sensitivity to our emotions and behavior defies easy explanation.
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Regret is rarely felt by these characters, who possess a preternatural ability to accept if not forgive, who keep seeking the other side of hurt.
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By way of a bonus, he also turns up as the Beast, who has preternatural powers, limited social skills, and a taste for human meat.
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Juan Orlando Hernández, Honduras's president since 2014, was thought to be the region's political genius, endowed with a preternatural talent for keeping and wielding power.
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"My heart is on fire," he said quietly at his modest farmhouse in the Kenyan highlands, receiving a stream of mourners with almost preternatural grace.
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The colors — aqua, purple, pink — are etiolated but still visible, and they cast a preternatural glow behind them, like dimmed lights in Easter-egg shades.
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True or not, something preternatural happens when you're trapped with people who have all chosen to do the same, which mystifies even the show's participants.
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Early on, the movie introduces a surrogate daughter for Cade — a scrappy little girl who's lost her family and has a preternatural knack for robot repair.
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The nanny they hire is Louise, who sets about lightening the atmosphere of the Massés' home with all the preternatural sweetness of a supermarket air-freshener.
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For a piece in the New Yorker, Vinson Cunningham described the preternatural brilliance of the Milwaukee Bucks' Giannis Antetokounmpo, who's the archetype of the NBA's unicorn.
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If a scrim of nostalgia threatens to obscure the photographer's compositional acuity and preternatural alertness to his subjects' self-possession, these Kodachrome slides dispel it handily.
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It may simply be that years of preternatural calm, induced by rock-bottom interest rates and symbolized by the market's low 'fear gauge' (VIX), are over.
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He's an all-rounder, precise in his stance, specific in his gestures, flexible in his voice, slipping from one character to the next with preternatural ease.
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Two floors above, the inestimable poet Anne Carson will deliver a new play with music written for the preternatural talents of Ben Wishaw and Renée Fleming.
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Binnington steadied the Blues with preternatural poise for a rookie, particularly one who had limited prospects of reaching the N.H.L. at the start of the season.
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While she highlights her subjects' common traits — preternatural persistence, a surpassing intelligence, a gift for storytelling — it is the differences among them that are most interesting.
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But nothing is normal about Gauff, the preternatural teenager who has held sway over the United States Open, just as she did at Wimbledon in July.
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An independent-minded girl, born with a kind of preternatural confidence, Prabhati was also a devoted daughter, obedient to her parents, incapable of dissembling to them.
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These policies are largely seen as good politics in "Trumpland" and reflect the President's preternatural tendency to think about his base and how to preserve it.
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But it seems to have stemmed from a genuine inadequacy he has long felt, as someone whose preternatural baseball skills prevented him from continuing his formal education.
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He also has a staggeringly high basketball IQ for a rookie—a preternatural feel for the game that often doesn't arrive until the twilight of one's career.
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Mr Djokovic alters the calculus with his powerful two-handed backhand, and particularly with his preternatural balance, which allows him to send the shot in any direction.
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All of a sudden, Manifest becomes the show you may have initially assumed it would be: a twisted mystery with a preternatural monster seemingly pulling the strings.
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The invisible body that connects your hands is an impossible creature of preternatural flexibility and upper body strength, a Wacky WallWalker with a love of extreme sports.
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All Sherlock knows is that "something is coming," and he'll have to use his preternatural detective skills to figure out just what kind of something it is.
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" Eyre wrote in his diary afterward, "What it is is a very astute mind, a preternatural self-confidence, and a willingness to learn by observing other people.
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The story's central character, Eva, is born into a food-obsessed family and soon displays preternatural gifts of her own, using cooking to overcome a childhood tragedy.
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If he lacks the preternatural charm Mr. Esparza lent the role, he brings comic ease and ready sympathy to a character who can seem exasperatingly self-involved.
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Her job is to break that spell, and the job of the movie, unsurprisingly, is to prove her wrong, by showing the guys' preternatural powers at work.
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She turned out to be a "genius director," Wellman said: She had a preternatural understanding of the stage, how to use it, how to talk to actors.
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Even in high school, the 6-foot-9 Johnson was known for his preternatural court vision and charismatic demeanor — a combination that could transform a college program.
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The animals, whose names include Eek, Squeak and Belle, communicate a preternatural sense of calm that may represent the best corrective of all to a fractious age.
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This new one's a collaboration with the forward-thinking producer Judge—whose high drama beats are rendered in hyperreal neon—showcasing their preternatural knack for effortless pop immediacy.
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He also confirmed that Cooper's eyesight was preternatural — said to rival that of legendary pilot Chuck Yeager — and he could indeed have seen what he said he'd seen.
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Colossal resentment is the result, and Trump, with his preternatural skills as a TV-trained populist demagogue on the right, was able to build a movement on it.
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But the dinner scene also jabs at a culture so unforgiving that mothers are exhorted to reclaim their prenatal figure, or to return to work, with preternatural haste.
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Throughout, she displays a preternatural understanding of her diverse materials as well as keen sense of the prevailing zeitgeist in each of the divergent decades her career encompassed.
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Her Bach has preternatural clarity: Four-note chords and fugues sound as though they were played by a small ensemble, not by a single instrument articulating discrete voices.
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Her preternatural talent for math was quickly evident, and she became one of three black students chosen to integrate West Virginia's graduate schools, according to her NASA biography.
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The top-ranked Barty, a Queenslander with Indigenous ancestry, has quickly become a favorite of Australian fans, beloved for both her unassuming personality and her preternatural court craft.
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Nearly every image of Coretta Scott King since her husband's death has seemed suffused with preternatural stillness, her face fixed with the brave solitude of timeless interior bereavement.
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Or is there such a thing as a culinary prodigy, born with a gilded palate and a preternatural instinct for breaking down skate wings and triple-blanching cardoons?
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In their devotion to detail and their preternatural understanding that objects can exert a certain hold us, they touch upon our fixations, however odd and unsavory they might be.
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The differences between the two men are manifold: Eisenhower was the nation's greatest war hero, a dignified man of preternatural calm, who was also the president of Columbia University.
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He may be older now, but that rascally smile of his remains intact, as does the preternatural confidence of a man who knows he can talk anyone into anything.
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I think D'Arrigo's preternatural ability to invade that side of our consciousness — the one that is fearful of the gaze of others — imbues her pieces with their unaccountable presence.
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Jon said that preternatural buzzer speed and vast stores of knowledge, coupled with "a relentless pursuit of a mathematically optimized money-maximizing betting strategy," put Mr. Holzhauer in control.
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Set in turbulent, late 1960s Chicago, it braids vintage monster imagery with the preternatural curiosity of a 10-year-old named Karen Reyes, who fancies herself a wolf girl.
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Lawrence received her first Oscar nomination for Winter's Bone— she was only 20 — but her preternatural poise left little doubt that we'd be hearing a lot more from her.
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Despite their bright, almost preternatural illumination, the works that make up Rafaël Herman's solo exhibition, The Night Illuminates the Night, were taken in total darkness and contain no digital manipulation.
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Moreover, democracy was never supposed to be a perfect clockwork mechanism, functioning on its own while citizens went about their lives, mitigating with preternatural precision every failure of human nature.
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On the level of daily life, most Saharawi demonstrate an almost preternatural patience—a quiet, abiding strength that is, perhaps, the reason the cease-fire has lasted these 25 years.
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The Angels' DH relies on his pitch recognition and preternatural reflexes to wait, driving fastballs the opposite way while using the big part of the field to corral breaking balls.
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Yes, he has flirted with bipartisanship in the past, but has always ultimately demurred, either due to pressure from aides and donors or from a preternatural devotion to his base.
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Indeed, given Trump's preternatural tendency not to tangle with Vladimir Putin, it's no wonder he's never sought Assad's removal -- a goal that would bring him into direct conflict with Moscow.
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What wasn't previously known was whether their preternatural diving skills have a genetic basis, given that they may spend 60% of their workdays underwater hunting for fish and sea cucumbers.
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By the end, the commentary focused instead on the child's preternatural state of grace set against the rivetingly and irrevocably fractured array of adults that Ms. Raine puts on view.
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In Room 22014 of New Scotland Yard, the police had assembled half a dozen officers who shared an unusual talent: they all had a preternatural ability to recognize human faces.
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A sworn enemy of the city's tabloids, the mayor makes for a slow-moving target with a penchant for being late and a preternatural affinity for his home neighborhood's YMCA.
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Switchback by Melissa F. Olson In last year's Nightshades, Melissa F. Olson introduced readers to The Bureau of Preternatural Investigations, a federal agency tasked with confronting Shades, a type of vampire.
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Her preternatural talent has made her the subject of scorn in certain fan communities, which were quick to dub her a "Mary Sue," and call out her rushed narrative as problematic.
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He revealed that Matt Murdock's preternatural abilities were honed by a blind sensei called Stick, who belonged to a secret sect locked in shadowy conflict with ninja death cult The Hand.
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Bowie was one of the most influential singers of his generation, having released 25 albums and traveled through multiple different personas since his preternatural rise to fame in the early 1970s.
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So when I say "genius" in a musical context, I mean that ineffable quality, a sui generis understanding of music, a talent that's so preternatural and otherworldly that it feels innate.
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After a four-hour display of sloth-like precision, power and preternatural poise, the 31-year-old safely made the summit, hiked back down to the valley, and phoned his mother.
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Her preternatural ability to read the room was the vehicle by which Big Little Lies's soundtrack came to life in the first season, but is far less utilized in the second.
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Reynolds's preternatural likeability shines through even when he's more muted, while Gyllenhaal retains his soft-spoken sweetness, despite his character being barely more animated than the flashing control panels around him.
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During the process, the term "boy genius"—a half-derisive, half-aspirational expression used to describe the preternatural confidence they'd observed in their male peers—was thrown around as a joke.
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James is a formidable woman stuck in the middle of nowhere because of the bonds of family and history, and Ms. Davis's preternatural intelligence and tightly capped energy serve her well.
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She should, and she will, for what she displays here is playing of preternatural sensitivity, sophistication and control, along with a touch of magic, as Bach's theme returns at the end.
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The episode crystallized the economic limitations that N.C.A.A. amateurism and N.B.A. rules impose on Williamson, a preternatural talent, and the unique ways that they limit the income of a unique player.
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Relentlessly edgy, confrontational and contemptuous of the niceties of governance and policy making, Mr. Trump is the perfect counterpoint to a president whose preternatural cool and deliberate nature drive his critics mad.
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It's remarkable how little the gamble and oddments of the gamble rely on the qualities that anchor Frahm's other collaborative work: the delicate melodic ideas, the preternatural grasp on space and pace.
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I never met Max Ritvo, but in the years that followed I felt that I came to know him: his friendly curiosity, his wit and preternatural lyric gifts, and, terribly, his illness.
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After all, what in the hell else could explain the preternatural prescience Buffet exhibited when he put pen to paper and scribed his 1977 hit "Margaritaville" and his 1999 masterpiece "Math Suks"?
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A democratic socialist, she quickly revealed a preternatural ability to discuss left-wing ideas as if they were mere common sense, earning praise from scholars as Reaganesque in her ability to communicate.
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The first season's preternatural prescience about cybersecurity breaches was half its appeal, with the Sony and Ashley Madison hacks happening so close to its airdate that they felt like network tie-in stunts.
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Margaret McGilvray, who runs The Witchery, equal parts magic shop and experimental performance art space, says that — despite the innocence of Salem's original "witches" — she's always felt a preternatural connection to the place.
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Where that song highlights a complicated perfection with multiple moving parts, "Yesterday" touched on McCartney's more preternatural or subconscious genius—he says he composed the entire melody in a dream one night. 6.
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Upon arriving in 2014, Beckham, 25, almost immediately established himself as one of the game's most entertaining and dynamic stars, with breakaway potential and a preternatural knack for one-handed, highlight-reel catches.
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For that, they turn to Wags, who hasn't entirely recovered from the uncertainty that sapped his swagger earlier in the season, and Taylor, who takes over as Chief Investment Officer with preternatural confidence.
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The preternatural court craft and guile she showed at her young age drew quick comparisons to Martina Hingis, the last player to make a major impact in women's tennis at such an early age.
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"Relentlessly edgy, confrontational and contemptuous of the niceties of governance and policy making, Mr. Trump is the perfect counterpoint to a president whose preternatural cool and deliberate nature drives his critics mad," he said.
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In a palette of chartreuse, ocher, cinnamon and gamboge, Ito overlaid uncommon shapes, such as a rectangle rounded and pinched at the top like a loaf of Wonder Bread, into compositions of preternatural calm.
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She is more than aware of her preternatural mathematical abilities, her possession of a rare mind that can see numbers and their functions as clearly as the rest of us see colors and shapes.
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Food is a subject Thiebaud returns to often: That same pink also recalls the fondant fancies, wedding cake frosting, cotton candy and gumballs that he has painted with preternatural geometric discernment across many decades.
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Her technique is immaculate, and she has the preternatural ability to invest turns, runs, and trills with psychological significance, so that it seems entirely in character for a Druid to sing in rapid-fire Italian.
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In different circumstances, had he not been blessed with preternatural ability and drive, we very likely would not have known of talents that have nothing to do with hitting a fall-back 3-point shot.
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Carl assumes the preternatural calm of the song's narrator as he goes about this sad work, embracing death with far more maturity and serenity than the many adults who have been in his unenviable position.
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In an unnamed country, a trio of homeless children of unspecified nationalities negotiates the vicissitudes of their imperiled circumstance with a mix of innocence, preternatural canniness and an empathy that transcends the limits of language.
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While it took about a decade for Morandi to become Morandi, his centeredness as a painter and his preternatural ability to coax the maximum quotient of life from his pigments were there from the beginning.
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You sit around and drink alcohol while other people play a pub game with preternatural competency, then, every once in while, a guy wearing giant foam fingers storms the stage and tries to steal the trophy.
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With her preternatural stillness and sculptured hauteur, Ms. Swinton has always looked ready for her close-up with D. W. Griffith; few contemporary movie actresses can hold you with their gaze as effortlessly as she does.
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This taut, engaging biography of the nineteenth-century photographer Nadar presents its subject as a consummate artist who also had a preternatural understanding of the new celebrity culture, with its twin gods of photography and publicity.
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Ms. Morris, who was raised in Dallas, began performing and writing songs as a child, and was playing honky-tonks across Texas and Oklahoma in her preteen years, thanks to a preternatural drive and supportive parents.
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Part two of Guggenheim's documentary gets into Gates' preternatural drive to succeed, which, in the early years of Microsoft, had him memorizing license plate numbers in the company's parking lot to track who was staying late.
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But her broad defense of high marginal rates for multimillionaires, floated during a "60 Minutes" profile, kick-started the current debate — and demonstrated her preternatural ability, at age 29, to shift the bounds of policy talk.
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Like Wilkie Collins before her and Sarah Waters today, du Maurier had a preternatural understanding of how to engineer suspense; she knew how to make you wait and want and when to deliver the final blow.
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"The male serial killer is a common figure of allure and almost preternatural powers in much popular culture," Caputi explained, adding that the taking of life is frequently mythologized as a path to some kind of immortality.
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They're impressive for different reasons: Mr. Gandelsman's playing is buoyant and crisp, with the dancing spirit of folk music, while Ms. Hahn's blend of historically informed performance and old-fashioned Romanticism has preternatural clarity amid symphonic grandeur.
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" The heyday of grifting, from the 19903s to the stock-market crash of 1929, was a time of preternatural abundance; Herbert Hoover, accepting the Republican Party's nomination for president in 1928, predicated an imminent "triumph over poverty.
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Blanc permits Susie to fill Olga's spot in an upcoming production and — touching her gently — imbues her with some kind of preternatural power of dance that also, in a (literal) twist, turns out to be Olga's undoing.
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After Mr Komarow died at 61 from brain cancer, tributes focused on the preternatural calm, intellectual range, high standards, low volume and cockeyed grin that secured his stature in all four newsrooms where he played a pivotal role.
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Those who worked with him said he had a preternatural sense of what an audience sees; he was frequently described as an alchemist or magician because his constructions — seemingly unrefined on close examination — dazzled from a spectator's perspective.
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The remains left behind in the preternatural ghostly "What Remains" at Danspace Project — a collaboration between the choreographer and director Will Rawls and the poet Claudia Rankine — have to do with the body and all of its vibrations.
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The decades-long smearing of Hillary Clinton as an unhinged shrew culminated one year ago today when, despite maintaining a preternatural calm throughout the most brutal campaign in living memory, she lost the election to masculinity's apoplectic id.
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When Ms. Benton, who had previously auditioned for Mr. Malloy's "Preludes," came in, "she had so exactly that sense of humor and that grace and that preternatural intuition we were looking for," the show's director, Rachel Chavkin, said.
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His gifts were already well known on the Gulf Coast of Alabama: size, speed, strength, vision, a sort of preternatural calm that made even his most insane athletic feats appear as if they were happening in slow motion.
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The open-world format in both versions of the game means you can take your time and, given the preternatural quality of Water Planet and of Virgo herself, you might just want to traverse the landscape, no objectives necessary.
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Murray Gell-Mann, who transformed physics with his preternatural ability to find hidden patterns among the tiny particles that make up the universe, earning a Nobel Prize, died on Friday at his home in Santa Fe. He was 203.
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Something preternatural in Kennedy told him that Dr. King wouldn't make it, but only on the other end of the short flight to Indianapolis, where he was scheduled to speak that evening, would he find out he'd been right.
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Hart, in his final game at Villanova, led with 19 points, and Jalen Brunson, the sophomore point guard, displayed a preternatural sense of where he was, using his body and left-handedness for crafty drives and finishes, scoring 11.
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Lynch's sustained presence at the top of the card is partially down to extracurricular stuff, like her preternatural, Ocasio-Cortezian ability to use social media to dress down her opponents in a more ruthless fashion than any of her contemporaries.
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It's a group led by by a man who stands in front of an American flag and, wielding preternatural charisma and commanding the baleful force of his loyal soldiers, preaches on faith, freedom, firearms, and the end of the world.
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The Seattle Post-Intelligencer captured this sentiment well in 2004, during Jennings's lengthy run: Had [Jennings] flogged us with his preternatural smarts all these months, letting his brainiac achievements swell up his head, would we care as much as we do?
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I don't know if it was the Tina Turner spiked hair and outfit or Bowie's character's preternatural ability to rotate three glass balls with one hand, but my son was hooked the moment he saw Bowie's Jareth the Goblin King.
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She quickly proved to be a powerful, preternatural study in both the clean and jerk, a two-step overhead lift in which the barbell is momentarily rested across the chest, and in the snatch, a more difficult single, swooping overhead lift.
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Demme's preternatural talent for shooting musical performances might explain why the savvy JT sought him out for the pop star's final nights of his 20/20 Experience tour, backed by the Tennessee Kids, Timberlake's group of dashing singers, dancers, and musicians.
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The older of two unnamed brothers is almost 11 and a born raconteur; the younger brother, who narrates the story with the preternatural insight of neglected children, is almost 9 and living in the shadow of his more adventurous sibling.
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While a professional photographer takes years to accumulate the technical and aesthetic skill and experience to pull off a great photograph, and several exhibitions and critical analysis to reach such precision, de Mayda saw in Jha's work a preternatural talent.
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What doesn't make sense to Mr. Ghosn's friends and family is how the man with a preternatural talent for seeing around every corner — whether maneuvering through Japanese bureaucracy, managing French ministers or designing a midsize S.U.V. — didn't see this coming.
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Van Doren, if you didn't know, was the polished scion of a distinguished American literary family, who in the 1950s was a champion contestant on the NBC show "Twenty-One," dazzling millions of viewers with what looked like preternatural erudition.
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She's a woman of nearly 90 with a preternatural grip for hugs and pinching cheeks but, in this, she was gentle: letting each bite soak into her orange Crush, allowing it to achieve full saturation before popping it in her mouth.
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CORINNA da FONSECA-WOLLHEIM AT 153 MINUTES 6 SECONDS Each part of Olivier Messiaen's kaleidoscopic "Catalogue d'Oiseaux" ("Catalog of Birds"), which the pianist Taka Kigawa performed with preternatural ease over more than three hours on Monday, comes with a prose introduction.
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Kakko, 18, of the Rangers may be the most prepared prospect out of the 2019 draftees, arriving with a well-developed frame, preternatural hockey sense, refined technique and the strength to battle in corners as well in front of the net.
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Like the President, he has shown nothing but disdain for diplomacy, because it requires compromises to be successful and is therefore anathema to Bolton's preternatural "my way or the highway" instincts and the winner-take-all Manichean world he lives in.
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Crucially, we learn from this grocery scene — which is, incidentally, one of the breeziest, most assured and detailed novel openings in recent memory — that Audra has a preternatural knowledge of the life story of every person in a hundred-block radius.
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It covers his writing and medical career, but also his traumatic early-life experiences, rejections from the scientific community, his struggles with his homosexuality, and his preternatural ability for compassion and empathy towards people with a wide range of neurological disorders.
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"The President has demonstrated a preternatural risk-aversion when it comes to use of military force and wants to get out of unwinnable old wars and not get into new ones," said Aaron David Miller, a senior vice president at the Wilson Center.
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McNairy, Bishé, Mackenzie Davis (as preternatural genius programmer Cameron), and Lee Pace (as would-be visionary Joe) have played the hell out of whatever they've been given, even when the series wasn't giving them all that great of material to work with.
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In an interview with his biographer Tim Lawrence (who published Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture in 2003), Mancuso tells a story that sheds some light on where his preternatural ability to channel communal love came from.
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He was, however, possessed with a preternatural talent for getting to know everyone, and an energy to call and call again, making him something of a ubiquitous presence for nearly everyone in the upper echelons of New York's public life in recent years.
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Her portraits of Mapplethorpe (in a leather jacket, a thin mustache hiding the beginnings of a smile) and Hujar (lying on a couch with an expression of preternatural calm) are definitive images of two artists who were photographed continuously throughout their careers.
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There is more than a little Monica Seles in her grip-it-and-rip-it baseline style, and there is more than a little Martina Hingis in her frankness, preternatural self-assurance and varied interests beyond tennis (Hingis rode horseback and skied).
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"The Great British Bake Off" has been celebrated as a cheerful vision of multicultural modern Britain and built its brand on the preternatural charm of its hosts and contestants, who compete in complex baking challenges without the lure of a cash prize.
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While enmeshed in an affair with a married man she knows is going nowhere, and worried that her life, too, might be going nowhere, she realizes that she has a strong instinct and nearly preternatural ability when it comes to solving crimes.
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The book was knocked out from that spot the next week by Dean Koontz's Intensity, but the story about a trainer with a preternatural ability to communicate with horses would ride this success in early 1996 toward a Robert Redford film adaptation in 1998.
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" Our own Tomi Obaro wrote a brilliant piece in which she describes Franklin's genius — not in the way the internet breathlessly ascribes genius, but "that ineffable quality, a sui generis understanding of music, a talent that's so preternatural and otherworldly that it feels innate.
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Though he had never watched a game of football, learnt how to use a spreadsheet or issued a press release about his state-of-the-art machine-learning-based forecasts, he was globally renowned for his preternatural ability to predict results at major international tournaments.
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Only more recently has Hozoji begun gaining renown as an emerging scientist with a similarly preternatural gift for spotting marine life in the murkiest, most silted-up waters, a skill she honed over a six-year stint as a commercial shellfish harvester for the Puyallup.
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Among other things, enemies sometimes possess that annoying AI combination of preternatural perception and strange obliviousness — one moment they'll spot you from across an alley at some super-oblique angle and raise the alarm, the next they've gotten stuck on a stray piece of wood.
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When, in September, Scotland Yard charged two suspects in the poisoning of the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, its investigative team included so-called "super recognizers," who have a preternatural talent for noticing and remembering facial features and other distinguishing characteristics.
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Toussaint's preternatural calm and kindness make it possible to move past the anxiety and despair endemic to writers, and her gift for unintrusive organization is the invisible scaffolding that has kept the place running and made it possible for writers to settle in and write.
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But Georgio has a preternatural ability to make experiences that might seem extreme—like fisting someone, or growing up the gay child of "very religious, very uptight" African immigrants, or getting harassed about whether he has a "big chocolate dick" on Grindr—relatable, somehow.
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What is genuinely alarming, however — what suggests that Renfro had no business weathering the pressures of stardom no matter his preternatural talents — is that as an adult, Renfro told friends that he'd been born addicted to heroin and had started injecting the drug around age 12.
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" Even Baseball Prospectus, Tapia's most dogged advocates, cannot arrive at a consensus: In January, one expert described Tapia's hitting ability as "preternatural," eight days after another declared that "the longer you see him not change his approach at the plate, the harder it is to be optimistic.
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But the unique mix of personalities, politics, Trump's seemingly preternatural desire to work some deal with Putin, and now the formal character of the meeting, suggest the possibility of a positive outcome that allows both leaders to claim success without resolving the core issues that divide them.
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Born in Bueno Aires, Argentina and based in Miami, Rubino applies a singular, distinctive style that often features a cast of peculiar women full of preternatural beauty, staring at viewers with hypnotic, seductive eyes while silently communicating their complex inner worlds through pursed, alien-like mouths.
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And what is striking about these images created by a lustrous roster of prominent photographers and artists is that the most compelling element of any photograph she appears in is not the clothes, the setting or the backdrop but the preternatural vitality of Ms. Bündchen herself.
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When he was featured in a 2014 PBS Frontline special as a child star whose preternatural skill for self-marketing took him from poverty to rubbing elbows with A-listers, he seemed to embody the American dream—albeit the LA-version in the age of Instagram.
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But it also possesses the genre's virtues in abundance, beginning with the liberal use of performance footage, from the early days of the Jackson 5 to the Jacksons' 1981 "Triumph" tour, an opportunity to appreciate not only Jackson's preternatural skills but also a dazzling succession of skintight sequined jumpsuits.
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It is questionable whether these initiatives were based on a sound and realistic conception of US national interests; to the contrary, they all seemed designed to satisfy the President's base, his own campaign commitments, and his preternatural desire to overturn his predecessor's signature domestic and foreign policy accomplishments.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Before this French Open semi-final match-up it had been all about the dizzying numbers and statistics, but once great foes Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal stepped on to the Roland Garros center court, all that mattered was both men's preternatural ability to strike a small yellow ball.
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As with the original album, a studio full of brass, strings and reeds carry his new music along, and his voice continues to be a preternatural fit with the lush Big Band sound — so much so that you can't help but wonder: Did he make a mistake picking the country genre?
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Without a new message or a clear agenda for a second term, Mr. Trump's advisers are banking on the belief that the same basic playbook — Mr. Trump's preternatural ability to shock and entertain — will again animate his core voters and retain the swing voters who gambled on him in 2016.
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At least five of the assists quickly got passed around as Vines, and the sheer variety of passes he was able to throw—fastball outlets, whipped bounce passes out of a Rondo fake, no-look finds to back-door cutters—speak to an otherworldly vision and a preternatural ability to transport leather spheres.
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From the Beats to B-Boys, youths from Kent to Kirkaldy have sought to imitate their American counterparts, hoping that some of that country's wide-eyed idealism and preternatural sense of confidence will rub off on them, if only they buy the right jeans from the right outlet in their local shopping centre.
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Those with more political or security experience might have warned Team Trump about the Russians, but this was a campaign and a candidate with an almost preternatural confidence in themselves, disdain for experts or expertise, and contemptuous not just of their political opponents but of much of the government they would eventually inherit.
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A fast-talking, 38-year-old Indian American with an all-black wardrobe and a preternatural ability to go viral on Twitter, Giridharadas argues "we live in an age of staggering inequality that is fundamentally about a monopolizing of the future itself," as he told me for my first TechCrunch column in March.
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Sports of The Times Sometime in the third quarter, as the Philadelphia 231ers rained down 29-pointers like mortar shots and Ben Simmons, a giant point guard possessed of preternatural passing ability and a bricklayer's touch, carved through the Nets, a thought occurred: This was not the playoff homecoming of the Nets' dreams.
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Ahead of the film's release, Hendricks sat down with Refinery29 at Disney's Hollywood Studios in Orlando, FL, to explain why she owns one of the creepiest dolls ever, how Gabby Gabby wins viewers over at the end, and her extremely preternatural ability to make it through the first 15 minutes of Pixar's Up without weeping.
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I'll still write home about the breathability of Helix's Cool Pillow and the preternatural bounciness of PangeaBed's now-retired Copper Pillows, but the best classic pillow I've tried goes to the down-and-feather Luxe Pillow ($129), with the more affordable Luxe Pillow ($79, and made from polyester gel fiber) coming in not far behind.
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Building on the business acumen he learned from his father and a preternatural touch for hospitality and aesthetics that he got from his mother, Sam Beall coaxed Blackberry Farm into a culinary powerhouse, with a wine cellar that held the kind of Gaja nebbiolos and rare Rhône varieties most sommeliers could only dream of.
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Or even before that when, as a 19-year-old, she would run lines with her mother, the actress Blythe Danner, and Danner noticed that it was all too easy for her, that there was something preternatural about her talent (an assessment one of her former co-stars also said to me almost verbatim).
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The mystique of Brother Nick—sidelined at the time after smashing and submitting Takanori Gomi in PRIDE, then popping positive for weed—rubbed off on Nate, and he looked like his doppelganger in the UFC, with preternatural jiu-jitsu skills years beyond whatever belt he secured to his gi and hands that earned high praise from Andre Ward.
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"Model" is probably too limited a job description for a woman who, through a singular combination of moxie, off-kilter beauty and preternatural energy, spent the next five decades romping across continents and stamping her imprint on an industry that, if it didn't always know what to do with her, inevitably succumbed to her goofball appeal.
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That all these pluses add up to a minus for O'Hara in the revival of Cole Porter's 1948 musical, "Kiss Me, Kate" (a Roundabout Theatre Company production, at Studio 54, under the direction of Scott Ellis), tells you just how much of a hindrance preternatural kindness can be in a story that revolves, partly, around actressy grandstanding.
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The camp's organizers — who were impressed by Ayton's size, as well as his "preternatural agility and coordination," according to Sports Illustrated — put Ayton in touch with amateur basketball coaches in the U.S. Ayton ended up moving to San Diego, where he lived with his coach, Shaun Manning, while attending the Balboa City School on a scholarship.
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Sure, the "Idol of Nightmares" (or "Billy") may just be an unmoored ethnographic artifact, yet along with the haunted dolls, scrying mirror, Ouija board planchette, and other preternatural pieces, it's a webcam that serves up a weekly helping of the odd, always joined with a charming dry erase board tallying the "common phenomena" for each object.
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The collage is the latest in Simpson's Riunite & Ice series, in which the same cutout appears in serial repetition, each time her head encapsulated by something preternatural and fey: paint black as squid-ink, a milk-colored moon, crystal shards, or clouds, with a ladder leading to where her shoulder might be, the woman her own skybound destination.
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In poem after poem, Stonecipher opens up a space in which readers can reflect upon what has been placed before them – a mosaic that is rigorous and elusive, a challenge to keep the whole in mind while remembering all the distinct elements, to recognize the different transactions or exchanges in the fluid world she evokes with preternatural precision.
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You tell your story through the eyes of four characters: Allie, who becomes a self-anointed prophet; Margot, who represents the state; Roxy, a London crime lord's daughter gifted with preternatural strength; and Tunde, the only male character, who travels the world photographing and documenting the evolution of the power and learning eventually to fear its abuses.
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It's fun to spot the occasional daub of correcting fluid or try to unravel the mysteries of R. Crumb's preternatural draftsmanship, but Mr. Crumb and his wife, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, have such compelling confessional voices, whether working alone or in collaboration, that it's almost impossible not to read the panels in sequence — just the way you would if they were printed.
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" But the bestsellers are two of the most iconic pieces from the series: Dana Scully's gold cross necklace, which represents the skeptic's faith in something preternatural despite her adherence to hard science ("Agent Scully is beloved character which makes her items very desirable for a fan's collection," vipfanclub says), and Fox Mulder's famous poster of a UFO, flying above some trees, that reads "I Want to Believe.
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Appreciations Those of us who worked even briefly with the journalist Gwen Ifill, who died on Monday at the age of 61, can attest to her deeply held sense of fairness, the preternatural grace she showed under pressure and the way she kept her composure in the face of both personal and professional slights that would have left many of us breathing fire and brimstone.
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At this juncture of the season, there is little doubt that LSU's Ben Simmons is the most talented player in the country, and maybe the best player in the history of this entire ignominious era of one-and-dones; there is also little doubt that Kentucky—which lost this game 85-67 on the road to fall to 0-2 in Southeastern Conference play—is a confused and searching squad, devoid of the preternatural talent that nearly carried it through all of last season undefeated.
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Surviving his own author's attempts to kill him, he has caught the imagination of each new generation, which has either faithfully continued to read his exploits in the original (sales have never flagged since the first novel, "A Study in Scarlet," appeared in 1887) or updated him (the BBC's "Sherlock" a notably successful version of this, but Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce did the same thing in 1942) or reinvented him, most entertainingly, perhaps, as Dr. Gregory House, in the eponymous series in which, for many seasons, Hugh Laurie played an irascible, drug-addicted surgeon of preternatural analytical penetration, solving apparently hopeless medical dilemmas.
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