| But more than anything else, I heard expressions of awe at the president's preternatural certainty and wonderment about its source. |
| The assistant moves with preternatural delicacy, and speed, and soon the ant is seated. |
| He's developed a preternatural ability to get the squeaker out of any toy, always accompanied by clouds of Hollofil. |
| Bacon, Galileo and Descartes rejected the preternatural je ne sais quoi in favour of a scientific examination of nature. |
| He is a being with no preternatural qualities, and differs from real living animals only in extreme smallness and agility. |
| Houdini exerted a preternatural control over his body, wriggling out of straitjackets by dislocating his shoulders. |
