A Knack replicates classical allusions, topical references, Euphuistic ornaments, and stylistic idiosyncrasies of Greene's recognized work. |
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A backlash against the Knack and power pop ensued, but the genre over the years has continued to have a cult following with occasional periods of modest success. |
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English Touring Theatre and its director Stephen Unwin have a real knack of spotting talent on the way up. |
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He tends to hire ambitious people who have their eye on a startup and a knack for the nuts and bolts of practice. |
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If winning a league demands a knack for cracking safe combinations then winning a cup is all about picking pockets. |
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The beauty of the band is their counterintuitive knack for balancing off-kilter musicianship with catchy hooks and chugging beats. |
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He has a strong personality, continuity of purpose, a mind well stored and a happy knack of communicating it. |
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Andrew's always had that happy knack of cutting straight to the chase, delighting and upsetting in roughly equal measures. |
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When it comes to the real thing however, Rangers have developed a happy knack of hitting the target. |
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She is a genuinely talented craftswoman whose knack for vocal extravaganzas is endearing. |
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Both these teams have discovered the happy knack of surprising their critics. |
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McDowell has the happy knack of convincing us that all he wants to do with his life is to serve the people. |
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The league has the happy knack of throwing them up so this is as a good a match as any to opt for one. |
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My second oldest brother, who is nine years older than me, always had the happy knack of being able to bustle me. |
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The range in the city is broader than in most places, and the locals seem to have a happy knack with fish dishes particularly. |
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Munster have the happy knack of bouncing back, of taking defeat and building on it. |
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For opportunities appear, at first glance, to have a happy knack of falling into the lap of the third season trainer. |
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He continues to make tough catches, runs well after the catch and seems to have a knack for getting open. |
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He averages 40 with a high strike rate of 75 runs per 100 balls and has the knack of taking important wickets at crucial times. |
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It was here that the dialogue reached hilarious, and this troupe had a knack for that level of funny. |
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Mealey has a knack for hitting the hole quickly and bouncing off defenders. |
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Enter Steve Nebraska, a goofy guy living in a small Mexican town with knack for hitting and pitching. |
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These guys seem to have a knack for hitting the nail on the head, and their newest creation is as short and sweet as they come. |
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She has the knack of highlighting many of the cultural forces and influences that so disorder our sexuality as moderns. |
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Hansen uses short sentences and has a knack for clarifying opaque and recondite ideas. |
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It's another highlight, directing attention toward The Thermals' uncanny knack for conjuring downcast poptastic gems. |
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Speaking of sports ministers, it seems they all have a knack for putting their foot in it. |
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The band certainly have a knack for writing melodies that seem like newly discovered classics. |
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The knack to making these jackets look good is to ignore the way they were worn on the catwalk. |
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He has a real knack for picking projects that are a little off the beaten track, but guaranteed to be interesting. |
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He found work as a freelance consultant for engineering companies and soon discovered he had a knack for it. |
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She had a knack for teaching people how to enjoy the simple things in life. |
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He also has the rare knack for getting the players around him to lift their game. |
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He has the knack of sharing information in a readable and entertaining way, so that the subject does not seem too technical and boring. |
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He has the knack for creating excitement around the most prosaic merchandise. |
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Graham Greene has an uncanny knack for keeping his readers on the edge of their seats. |
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The actor Ian Ogilvy's debut novel shows that he has a knack for writing for children. |
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During this campaign he displayed one of his greatest skills, the knack of surrounding himself with the right people. |
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Postle has a knack for combining slapstick comedy and pathos, which is very effective in this instance. |
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However, it's also difficult and time-consuming, and it takes a special knack which few scientists have. |
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To say that he has a knack for being at the right place at the right time would be an understatement. |
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Moreover, he's got a happy knack of presenting complex ideas in an accessible, engaging and entertaining way. |
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He had always had an uncanny knack for seeing things before they actually happened. |
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My father had a knack for making a total stranger feel very comfortable in his presence. |
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But even as a young production-line worker, Webb showed a knack for getting people to buy into her ideas. |
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My dad is the type of guy who'll only sing at Christmas, but he has a knack for getting out his harmonica at unexpected moments. |
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The knack is to anchor well away from the bank or reed bed to be fished, then cast baits back in to the mark. |
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Miller has shown a knack for turning real-life events into prestige procedural dramas. |
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Despite some people categorizing them as rock, the group is a pop band with a knack for simple poetry. |
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Back in his Pop Idol days, Will Young was the posh one with gorgeously rich vocals and a knack for treating classics staggeringly well. |
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When Ralph buys a racehorse, Tony discovers he has a knack for picking the ponies. |
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There is a knack to dealing with a mango, which contains a long, thin stone to which the flesh clings for dear life. |
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Lee, who has showed a knack for catching the long ball, could be the surprise of the camp. |
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He has that knack of playing well every game and always looks like scoring a goal if not two. |
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I've had the opportunity to see him in the flesh twice and his pace down the left still has the knack of roasting opposing fullbacks. |
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Fitness professionals and athletes have a knack for continually pushing the envelope when it comes to the quest for heightened performance. |
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But she's also got a knack for handling your cares and worries and, when it's all too much, your tears. |
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Once you get the knack for making the most of what you've got, you will never go back to looking dilapidated again. |
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I can't think of a finer person to have taught me the sport-he was a master technician who had a real knack for dealing with kids. |
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To help me get the knack I have had to practise constantly on the driving range and at home in my garage with a plastic ball. |
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With manic energy and a knack for voices, Bennett's performance is outstanding. |
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It's time, as a wise, marginally white man with a peculiar knack for the internal rhyme once said, to clean out our closets. |
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As evidenced by his seven interceptions this season, he's a ballhawk who has a knack for popping up in unexpected places. |
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The skills they need include creativity and initiative, the ability to make decisions and solve problems, and a knack for working with others. |
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It translates not only to those short gains but, more notably, to his knack of dominating the most important games. |
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You have a natural knack for fashion and occupy a suit like a matinee idol. |
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Community, whether caustic or politely consensual, has an odd knack of seeming a bridge too far. |
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Second, Coerver and Hall exhibit a knack for casting recent events in historical perspective. |
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Harris's descriptive powers and his characteristic knack for instant thumbnail sketches are given full rein in Pompeii. |
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Getting insertion and removal right can be a bit tricky until you learn the knack. |
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I couldn't help but display my knack of scanning a rack of women's clothes and picking out the exact, perfect combo for her to try. |
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He also has a knack for driving the ball into right field or right-center, which allows the runner to reach third. |
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He had a knack for attracting some fearfully powerful enemies as well as many influential friends. |
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After you've gotten the knack of making a simply topiary shape, you can try more elaborate shapes, such as animals and giant birds. |
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I seem to have an infallible knack for having something in my blurbs go wrong. |
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He has sprinter's speed, a card shark's confidence and playmaker's knack for action. |
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Enter Ray Rhodes, a highly regarded defensive troubleshooter with a knack for resurrecting Milquetoast units. |
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They say Leighton has a knack of gaining the respect of employees, particularly at the shop floor end of the businesses he is involved with. |
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Whereas her elder brother has a knack for narrative storytelling, Stacey takes a more impressionistic approach. |
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Nicola has developed a knack for bridging the worlds of over-the-top concepts with shoppable apparel. |
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By accident he discovered a knack for ballet and after battling familial prejudice won a scholarship to the Royal Ballet school. |
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He has a knack for bringing closure to each of his 10 tracks at just the right moment. |
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In a few cases his rhythms are a bit stiff-jointed, but one undeniable sign of accomplishment is his knack for the killer ending. |
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As an artist, she definitely has a knack for rendering believably vivacious and personably gawky young women. |
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And I too got the knack after a while, looking at the way they dress, even if they're not wearing the jilbab or the kopiah. |
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Yet his tongue-in-cheek whimsy has an uncanny knack of transporting you back to the event itself. |
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The series demonstrated once again that Ferguson has an uncanny knack for turning controversy into lucre. |
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But long-running rumours are developing an uncanny knack of coming true at the moment. |
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Lubitsch also had a knack of getting uncharacteristically good performances out of his actors. |
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She has the happy knack of making the most mundane report appear interesting. |
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Thereafter, he seemed to have an unerring knack for picking the wrong script. |
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His knack for putting his subjects at ease is reflected in his photographs of the Fab Four. |
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He also taught him the knack of solving cryptic clues in crossword puzzles. |
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Smart as a whip, he has a real knack for always being in the right place at the right time. |
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We're told that anyone who can get the knack of skating can get the hang of snowblades in a jiffy. |
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She loved her sister dearly and always would, but sometimes Staicie had the infuriating knack of being able to effortlessly exasperate a saint. |
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I'm a magician with a knack for packing on size in a New York minute and I intend to shock and amaze the crowd at Mandalay Bay. |
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Obviously, Fletcher has a knack for creating a useful product that fits a niche in the market. |
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If you liked Erin Brockovich, you'll be thoroughly intrigued with the adventures of this Sydneysider and her knack for civil disobedience. |
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She was a plump middle aged woman with a cherubic face and an incurable knack for gossip. |
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Ryan has an eye for detail and a knack for spinning a yarn from many loose threads, and these talents make the book highly readable. |
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He's clever and thoughtful and pays attention to everything, and then has the knack of putting that down on paper. |
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Over ten years, I have developed the knack of looking as if I believe every word I'm being told yet knowing when I'm being spun a yarn! |
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The hard-throwing Weaver has a knack for challenging left-handed hitters in a manner that reminds me of a young Frank Tanana. |
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Avoiding the weepiness and introspection of some of her contemporaries, she is a great storyteller with an enviable knack for updating her sound to fit the passing decades. |
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In the film, Foxx is able to showcase his singing, knack for comedy and all-around versatility. |
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In the last decade or so of his life, Lewis gave up being an apologist, feeling he had lost his knack. |
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Puck artists, like their predecessors, combined picture-making skills with a caricatural precision and a knack for lethal symbols. |
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I think I'm developing a knack for walking in on situations like this. |
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And he proved that he hadn't lost his knack for charming his audience. |
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Scotland have an uncanny knack of finding heartbreaking ways of exiting tournaments, of getting the nation's hopes up before kicking them in the teeth. |
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He has a fortunate knack of emerging victorious from difficult scrapes. |
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Her voice is immensely beautiful and can lift you out of a blue mood, but more importantly, she has the knack of making you empathize with her subject matter. |
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What sets him apart is his knack for storytelling and his sense of humour. |
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Conducting is a special knack and I discovered that I possessed it. |
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Caley Thistle came into the match on thumping good form after thrashing Raith Rovers, but have the knack of yo-yoing from spectacular results to disappointment. |
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Dixon is a savvy player with a knack for rushing the quarterback. |
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Timberlake, ever the showman, has a knack for transforming into the living embodiment of his music. |
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A new genetic analysis of man's best friend could help scientists explain why a border collie has knack for herding or why poodles sport a curly coat. |
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Gingrich is a smart fellow steeped in the issues, but also has a knack for straying off message. |
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I'm not sure that I agree with everything in this book, but the author does have a knack for deconstructing the prevailing thought pattern and showing where it goes wrong. |
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Nigel Lythgoe has a knack for resuscitating pop culture tenets that seem on their death bed. |
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The Montreal native is a mixmaster who has been pleasing the crowds internationally with his solid skills and knack for picking the perfect blend of music. |
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British journalist Liz Jones has an unqualified knack for raising media hackles on both sides of the Atlantic. |
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Fred LeBlanc, drummer and most visible front man for the New Orleans-based MOR roots-rock barnstormer Cowboy Mouth, has an undeniable knack for muscular, singalong melodies. |
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But it does have a tremendous knack for upstaging its neighbour. |
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Call it a happy knack of being in the right place at the right time. |
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Hospitals were not only cheapskates when it came to investing in computers and Web technologies but also had a knack for wasting the money they did spend. |
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You also have a knack for inventing new words to suit yourself. |
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This little chilly brat has a knack for getting onto people's nerves. |
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King had a knack for finding San Francisco's hot button issues and weaving them together to depict the city as being in grave danger from vice and political corruption. |
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Though he might not get statistical credit, Rogers has a knack for blowing up plays by quickly penetrating the backfield and forcing running backs to change direction. |
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The really impressive thing about the post-Christian world is its almost infallible knack for deriving exactly the wrong lesson from its experience. |
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The latter had a knack for persuading descendants of Chinese nobles to part with their inherited treasures, including rare paintings and porcelains with imperial provenances. |
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Anyway, Eisenberg was great and his work is avidly studied by animation artists, especially his knack for posing characters so they have weight and movement. |
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Apparently, he also has a knack for picking songs that seem random at first, and funking them up into something big-beat, horn-blasting, soulful, and torally listenable. |
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And to get a slant on how to bring the big picture into focus, we turned to business futurists who have a knack for forecasting economic and technological trends. |
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All it takes is a preternatural sense of musical trends and history, a cunning knack for timing, and the willingness to completely reinvent yourself. |
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Over the years he developed an encyclopedic knowledge of this literature and an uncanny knack for introducing the right book to the right reader at the right time. |
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A tireless, relentless player at both ends of the court, he is always in the middle of the action and seems to have a knack for coming up with the ball. |
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Lencioni does have a knack for creating personable characters that readers can empathize with to lead them through the story. |
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He had a knack with manics, whom he sent out to shop for all his parties, gave tarot cards to schizoids so they could read their stars. |
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Burrell, known for his knack for tormenting the Mets, is expected to inflict similar damage in the ultracompetitive American League East. |
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And no one quite has his knack for stripping them of all pretense and exposing their essential funniness. |
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The sculptural rivulets also allude to the Dutch knack of managing water and the Netherlands polder landscape. |
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Rose's knack for draining the big shots in Sunday's Northeast-10 Conference Tournament quarterfinal. |
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Bad wishes tainted by the Kybosh must be stopped and Evangeline has an instinctive knack for spotting problems. |
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But Parisians have the wonderful knack of putting you firmly in the corner of the class with that big pointy dunce hat wedged firmly sur la tete. |
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For those who don't know Sub Focus, he is an English drum and bass producer who has the uncanny knack of turning out hit tune after hit tune. |
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Wouter Bos seems too good to be true. He's smart, relaxed and impossibly telegenic, with a knack for coming across as humble and sincere. |
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But there's a knack to writing winning tiebreakers, and it's all down to word play. |
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She always had a deadpan humor and a knack for ventriloquizing Southern voices. |
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They have a magical knack for fixing anything, and they can teach you how to, do a back dive or change a bike flat. |
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How did you develop this knack for inventing, and surrealism? |
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In The silkworm, Rowling deploys this knack with an almost perfect touch. |
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Megan Thoma has been a rising star in Providence's poetry scene, a quirky, offbeat writer with a knack for both offbeat imagery and an often unexpected vulnerability. |
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I haven't had a decent cook off for ages, and since I hung up my apron at our dining club Clwb Cinio, I may well have lost the knack to shake the pans. |
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The Saudi knack for ostentatiousness makes them struggle to survive. |
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It's a knack, and you get to exercise this knacky part of your brain. |
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Talented slaves with a knack for business might accumulate a large enough peculium to justify their freedom, or be manumitted for services rendered. |
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Rhetoric is no art whatever, but a mere unscientific knack, enslaved to the dominant prejudices, and nothing better than an impostrous parody on the true political art. |
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And the Premier League's all-time top-goalscoring midfielder proved he has not lost the knack of being in the right place at the right time with a trio of clinical finishes. |
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Nobody, however, can take issue with Purdy's ability to turn a phrase. He has that rare Joycean knack for illuminating an entire universe with one simple detail. |
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For the most part, he has some knack, or trick of the trade, which by close inspection can be delected, and so the heart of his mystery be seen into. |
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Mr Darling will never be a Commons performer and grandstander because, despite over 20 years as an MP and a decade as a Cabinet minister, he hasn't got the knack. |
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Streetwear transcends downtown skate parks and emerges as instantly rebloggable on Tumblr dashboards everywhere thanks to celebrities with a knack for LOLs and labels. |
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Swoboda has a knack for making the hardest-hit balls look diggable. |
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It is unashamedly romantic in nature as it follows the trials and tribulations of dippy heroine Val O'Hara, who seems to have the knack of causing mayhem wherever she goes. |
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