What sort of outsider knows the rules so preternaturally well?
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He is taciturn, focused and preternaturally good at shooting guns.
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He was preternaturally calm, a child of the Navajo northlands.
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Every shred of plastic bag seems perfectly placed and preternaturally tangled.
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Churchill was a preternaturally gifted writer, orator and student of history.
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Roberts is preternaturally polite, yet he couldn't help rolling his eyes.
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Dr. Oxman, preternaturally gifted, is attempting to make buildings that sweat.
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But Gunna is preternaturally chill, almost koan-like in his delivery.
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Close was clearly — intentionally or not — a preternaturally smart picker of projects.
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Before Gilead, she graced American television screens as a preternaturally blond evangelist.
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"I'm just sort of preternaturally cheerful," she told PEOPLE earlier this fall.
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Various cops describe Bundy as preternaturally intelligent, evading them at every step.
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It's awful to see this preternaturally composed and brilliant person break down.
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Federer is the pleaser, preternaturally elegant on the move or at rest.
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He was preternaturally inclined toward a law-and-order point of view.
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As the president grew increasingly angry, Pence stayed almost preternaturally calm and quiet.
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Then Mr. Rubin asked the students if they were always so preternaturally serious.
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Around them wander a menagerie of animals displaying their artist's preternaturally intelligent line.
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Hashtag's players, preternaturally charming and telegenic, talk and joke directly into the camera.
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It was a speech that felt thoroughly, almost preternaturally, attuned to its moment.
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Jayson Tatum, the preternaturally composed 20-year-old rookie forward, was the exception.
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She's preternaturally humble, to the point where it begins to border on self-deprecation.
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Then he culled out a small group that seemed to be preternaturally terrific prognosticators.
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Her personal connection to the mission is what makes her a preternaturally good investigator.
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Something that really struck me about the film was how preternaturally confident they were.
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As with many addicts in recovery, she is both preternaturally driven and utterly disorganized.
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It would be a pleasure to just look at his wry, preternaturally alert face.
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But the preternaturally youthful actor, 54, says he long felt as though something were missing.
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For "The Dead Don't Die," the writer-director lured his posse of preternaturally cool actors.
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Among the most preternaturally gifted saxophonists working today, Irabagon puts few limits on his expression.
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Her accent is the worst thing I have ever heard the preternaturally talented Bellisario produce.
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Meg is accompanied by her preternaturally bright little brother, Charles Wallace, and her schoolmate Calvin O'Keefe.
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Snakes are preternaturally sexy – I mean, look how we seduced Eve in the Garden of Eden!
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He seemed almost preternaturally confident in his own judgements, often at the expense of hard facts.
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For the most part, the succession of plates had ranged between very pleasant and preternaturally delicious.
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The preternaturally optimistic Mr. Ackman thinks that he can save Valeant and that he will recover.
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Unless the fries are preternaturally crisp, you're going to end up with a plate of mush.
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This was not just a see-how-tough-you-are experience calibrated for preternaturally robust Canadians.
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Pucci's preternaturally bright silk prints, laid out in blond-wood drawers, conjure a mod jet set.
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Look, I know that he's got a Khaleesi crush and everything, but that is just preternaturally nice.
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Endometriosis causes uterine tissue to grow outside the uterus, resulting in preternaturally painful periods and penetrative sex.
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And last year a taut, preternaturally youthful Ms. Shields modeled Calvin Klein lingerie in Social Life magazine.
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The Young Pope glances at his adversary, preternaturally long eyelashes blinking, tanned face stretching into a sneer.
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Wilhelm twice ran into trouble, and twice was rescued by his shortstop, the preternaturally calm Derek Jeter.
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Ms. Kilner, who is preternaturally calm, would help soothe tensions in the aftermath of any given blowup.
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Kwan's own stature, although small, is preternaturally steady: She walks without wavering, and her gestures are fluid.
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Who is, again, dating a preternaturally instinctive newspaper reporter who can drag him away from a watery grave.
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Photos from that time depict a scrawny kid; his hair is dark and full, his glare preternaturally confident.
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At the performance I saw, Rosdely Ciprian, a preternaturally composed 14-year-old New Yorker, spoke for abolishment.
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Tom Hanks is preternaturally gifted in Sully — the film practically sneers at the investigators that dare question his brilliance.
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Andre Iguodala, Draymond Green and Thompson have preternaturally sure and quick hands, repeatedly stripping Cavalier players of the ball.
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That is too bad because Google's Home is otherwise a preternaturally smarter speaker than its closest rival, Amazon's Echo.
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Her work grows out of encounters in the world that she is both preternaturally open to and busily engineers.
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Mr. Salonen was so preternaturally confident in this work that he announced Mr. Kuusisto's encore before the ballet began.
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If there was any question that Anna isn't a normal kid, that preternaturally equitable answer lays it to rest.
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And, most of all, I'm lucky to have my husband, a man who's almost preternaturally unconcerned with other people's opinions.
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But when we meet in San Mateo, Woodman (and basically everybody else I speak with at GoPro) seems preternaturally positive.
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But like the preternaturally instinctual actor that he is, he will not telegraph his actions in advance, nor should he.
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His temperament is suited to the high drama of childbirth: He is preternaturally calm, deliberate and gentle in his movements.
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If the young Celeste was preternaturally mature, this later model is youthfully brattish, like a parody of a spoiled adolescent.
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And Emmy, now a preternaturally poised young woman, just wants the stable domestic life that her mother's departure denied her.
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Politicians, especially those up for reelection in the near term, are deeply reactive creatures, almost preternaturally aware of public sentiment.
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Players trade and build their way across the bountiful island of Catan—which is preternaturally stocked with sheep and iron ore.
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With his 2009 debut A Single Man, Ford showed he could find the beating heart beneath a character's preternaturally composed façade.
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Ryan Atwood is an award-winning architect who spends his free time mentoring underprivileged youths and is still somehow preternaturally ripped.
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The branch on which the creature lies is one of four that, preternaturally parallel in arrangement, stretch diagonally across the canvas.
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J.P. A flagship ensemble of the 1970s avant-garde, the Art Ensemble was ludic, irreverent, proudly Afrocentric and yet preternaturally universalist.
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You can watch the encounter on the Redoubt News YouTube channel, and Herndon does, indeed, seem practiced and almost preternaturally calm.
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On a recent morning, the forest was preternaturally quiet, footsteps dampened by windfall and undergrowth, voices absorbed by bark and leaves.
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Despite her manifold fears, this damaged little dog is preternaturally gentle — "grandmotherly," according to her page on the rescue organization's website.
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To call it a diary is misleading; rather it is a work of literature, consciously composed by a preternaturally gifted young writer.
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Costa's first two features, 1989's O Sangue and 1994's Casa de Lava, are works of a puckish, preternaturally talented cinephile.
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Annie is the reckless-but-well-meaning young single mom of another preternaturally responsible daughter, gender-flouting tween Sadie Marks (Izzy Stannard).
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Communications director Barbara Morgan is also a near-constant presence in the film, a preternaturally calm yin to Weiner's increasingly agitated yang.
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Image: Kiley RiffellAttempts to kill a mosquito aren't always met with success—these annoying bloodsuckers seem preternaturally good at evading hand swats.
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Normally, the President, preternaturally given to hyperbole, "alternative facts" and self-adulation, would have used more bombastic rhetoric to laud the results.
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Forget about the movie, this tour is about Will Smith and reminding the world that he is still a preternaturally charming performer.
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Both are histories filtered through the filmmaker's singular experience as an Italian American and as a preternaturally inquisitive and insightful spectator/creator.
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The iconic momager is almost always seen with a dark pixie haircut, an intense smoky eye, glossy pink lips, and preternaturally glowy skin.
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Her skin is preternaturally glow-y, her cheekbones touch the heavens, oh, and she's warm, gracious, and down to talk makeup for hours.
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During conversations over two days last month — edited excerpts are below — he was preternaturally calm, consistently forthright, reflexively self-aware, and wryly funny.
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We have praised the young actress numerous times for her keen remarks on the entertainment industry and her preternaturally sophisticated takes on feminism.
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The marvel is in the profusion of those ideas through the years and the Necks' preternaturally patient attention to detail as they materialize.
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No one rapped like Rakim in his late-'113s heyday — ultra-focused, preternaturally cool, somersaulting through complex rhyme patterns like it was nothing.
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We know this because of their preternaturally good looks and iridescent green eyes, but mostly because of their posture, gait and physical demeanor.
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Think preternaturally high vocals, more bombast than an Olympic opening ceremony, guitar solos that would make Yngwie Malmsteen blush, and you're halfway there.
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Preternaturally self-assured, Cockburn is nothing like the hollow-eyed specters that we tend to associate with grieving parents in the popular imagination.
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Mark Duplass plays her rich brother Craig, who hires a preternaturally handy nanny named Tully (Mackenzie Davis) to give her a much-needed break.
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You seem to be preternaturally capable of having a foot in multiple worlds and, perhaps, most comfortable when you are taking on many challenges.
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I can't decide whether he's incredibly lucky, incredibly unlucky, or some kind of preternaturally-gifted advertising virtuoso who knows how to keep a secret.
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They were a preternaturally polished lot, especially Ivanka, who can deflect potentially messy questions and pivot to gauzy banalities with the best of them.
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What makes these stories, preserved from ancient times, especially readable today is the preternaturally postmodern form they are given in Hearn's deeply idiosyncratic telling.
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He embodies the fading old order, while Miller's colleague at Esquire, the preternaturally wide-eyed Dave Eggers, marks the other end of the spectrum.
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It is one thing to have to aggressively manage expectations for young players, even those who seem as preternaturally calm as Bird and Sanchez.
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Cool, calm and preternaturally collected, Buttigieg has stood apart in this raw and frenzied era of Donald Trump for his obvious intellect and reasoned demeanor.
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Baker's predecessor in the job was Jacob Rees-Mogg, a tall, preternaturally posh former backbencher who is now the Leader of the House of Commons.
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And he has a better chance to win the Republican nomination than we want to admit, because he's not just a preternaturally slick political animal.
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But despite tales of superpower-like strength from chimps, this difference might be because humans are comparatively weak, not because our cousins are preternaturally strong.
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The most innocuous interpretation of the Swimsuit issue is that it's all about making beautiful people in beautiful places look more preternaturally beautiful than usual.
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And the sour cherry atop this particular rhubarb tart: Tommy's preternaturally adorable son, T.J. (Elijah Jacob), hasn't spoken in the year since his mother died.
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Most attention has focused on Durant, that preternaturally talented seven-foot forward possessed of a feathery touch and a hawk's eye for a cutting teammate.
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The Bagger first cornered the preternaturally glamorous Joan Collins, as the British actress was carefully ascending a small flight of stairs at the Fox party.
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Clymer is preternaturally calm and sumptuously bearded, a self-described "old soul," who ticks as reliably as a chronometer granted the all-important Geneva Seal.
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If you're a student of VICE News' four-part Alex Jones master class, then you know that our man A.J. is a preternaturally gifted impressionist.
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These are pictorial compositions, after all; the resonating circles are the (preternaturally active) ground against which the glitches — though aberrations in the process — emerge as figures.
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Their commander was Mohammed Ahmed, a preternaturally calm man who, in T-shirt and flip-flops, seemed dressed more for the beach than a front line.
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Wearing cargo shorts and Converse sneakers, the preternaturally youthful and rumpled Mr. Crowe, 58, jumped in the air, pumping his arms in celebration of one take.
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Mathilde, serenely acted by Ms. de Laâge, is a beautiful, preternaturally wise and compassionate young woman: a modern heroine undaunted by the horrors of the world.
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It's a tradition she's continued since she was a little girl in 1950s England; now a preternaturally youthful 72, her enthusiasm shows no sign of waning.
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In that telling, Hooded Justice was known for being large, preternaturally strong, and then suddenly disappearing just as the government began cracking down on costumed crimefighters.
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But anyone listening and watching the Trump Administration in past two years understands that the "deal of the century" is a deal preternaturally stacked in Israel's favor.
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As interest in the years preceding the AIDS crisis grows, Cowley has finally re-emerged as a preternaturally talented artist and the personification of a bygone era.
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After a few rough days/weeks/months on planet earth, we needed something purely delightful, like the birth of two potentially preternaturally talented and definitely adorable babies.
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The preternaturally cautious prime minister is allergic to anything that might weaken her focus on the impending Brexit talks, as a war with the unions surely would.
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Mr. Rivkin — polished, almost preternaturally so — became a mega-fund-raiser for the soon-to-be-president, Barack Obama, who named him ambassador to France in 280.
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Mr. Kigawa is always a poised guide through the most daunting music, as in his preternaturally unruffled evening-length survey of Pierre Boulez's complete solo piano works.
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He has become preternaturally attuned to the figure of a white woman between the ages of sixty and eighty stepping into the street and looking both ways.
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It's an unusual speech to deliver directly after filing paperwork to run in the state, especially amid a presidential primary field almost preternaturally occupied with health care.
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Their victims — embodied by, among others, the preternaturally poised Danish actress Birgitte Hjort Sorensen, Raffi Barsoumian and the delightfully callow Elena Kampouris — come off as particularly clueless.
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There's a whole bunch of Savemoney members and affiliates on the tape as well with Vic Mensa, Mick Jenkins, and the preternaturally gifted Saba all turning up.
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At least the preternaturally sane lesbian mom and wife Lena (Sherri Saum) is considering a run for the California Assembly as the fifth and final season ends.
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They convene in a secluded bunker to be drilled by Yannik (the preternaturally composed Torsten Flassig), who will decide who gets to go to the red planet.
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But she had quietly been writing songs for years and journaling since second grade, honing a preternaturally sharp voice on topics like gender, faith and creativity itself.
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In speeches and writings, he can appear almost preternaturally convinced of his capacity to sort right from wrong, and to be recognized for having done so eventually.
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Powell and Pressburger's story of a preternaturally gifted dancer who must choose between Art and Love is a dance film that is also considered a cinematic benchmark.
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More often girls are positioned as victims of raging male hormones, or else they are styled as preternaturally mature, rising above the boys and their juvenile misadventures.
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His preternaturally calm voice, for instance, drifts freely during "Night Wander," moving with the cool mystique of the nocturnal black cat that serves as the song's hero.
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Fifteen years later, Dolores finds herself pregnant again, this time with Thandi, a preternaturally gifted and serious little girl on whom both Margot and Delores pin their hopes.
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Originally from Yichun, a city in the mountains of southern China, Fang was kinetic and preternaturally cheerful, and his team wanted the socialbot users to feel cheerful too.
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There are Hindu festivals, men in turbans, women in saris, red-robed monks, long mustaches, large beards, preternaturally soulful children and people in rudimentary canoes against dramatic landscapes.
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His HistoriCorps partner for the summer is Megan Potter, a preternaturally cheerful crew leader and camp cook, who seems impervious to the unpleasantries and inconveniences of the field.
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Having a former president at the helm proved particularly productive, with foreign leaders and business people opening their doors — and their wallets — to the preternaturally sociable Mr. Clinton.
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Last week, the US Food and Drug Agency approved the first-ever, over-the-counter digital contraceptive—a polished and almost preternaturally upbeat mobile app called Natural Cycles.
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But the most striking works are mesmerizing, endlessly repetitive portraits, nearly all preternaturally wide-eyed, and overwhelmingly depicting women in Edwardian dress with thick, dark, center-parted hair.
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The lone sympathetic figure in "The Hunt" is a cool, preternaturally capable blonde nicknamed Snowball, cooly played by Betty Gilpin with studied ennui and a monotonal Mississippi accent.
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Even without the wigs and tarantula eyelashes of his performing alter ego, Arnold is a preternaturally heightened figure, only rarely without the battle gear of exaggeration and melodrama.
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Mr. Sorey, 37, who is about to release his sixth album, is a preternaturally talented multi-instrumentalist who has built a career in the territory between standard definitions.
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Preternaturally calm after a car-ride meditation, she exudes an easygoing, surfer vibe with long blond-tipped hair, a braided choker and the remnants of a summer tan.
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At this preternaturally elegant new French restaurant from the American chef Daniel Rose, of the highly acclaimed Spring, in Paris, the waitstaff keeps things lively with cheeky repartee.
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Felix, one of the youngest Zanes, comes across as a captivating boy — a bright and preternaturally wise child, who has an intuitive understanding of his elders's losses and worries.
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"Cat litter is a preternaturally absorptive substance, apparently designed to expand to roughly 60,000 times its original volume in some horrible malignant process like cancer, only worse," he wrote.
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A preternaturally intelligent girl who is sensitive and socially awkward, obsessed with dark literature and music and television, overdoses on sleeping pills, and we thought she'd turn it around?
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Small, compact, with dark hair and preternaturally bright eyes, Masha makes a bold, visible contrast with the ethereally pale Beanpole — her very being seems molded from other, stronger material.
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And with his preternaturally mild manner, he was the perfect foil for John Belushi's various incarnations as a samurai — a samurai deli man, a samurai tailor, a samurai optometrist.
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In Ovid's telling of Narcissus, he is a preternaturally handsome young man who is predicted to live a long life so long as he never catches sight of himself.
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But Zuckerberg, who had recently returned from his 700-acre estate on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, is preternaturally unable to look anything other than excited about the future.
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Hothoused by his father and preternaturally accomplished, he saw that even if all his "objects in life were realised", still he would not be content—and had a nervous breakdown.
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Sure, there have been rumblings that the preternaturally mysterious town of Hawkins, IN, would be getting some new residents come season 2 of the Duffer brothers Netflix juggernaut, Stranger Things.
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Nickson is anything but a literal painter, but he is a scrupulous observer of the world around him, preternaturally aware of the visible evidence of passing time and changing seasons.
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The preternaturally ravishing Cassie Ventura plays Eva, a mysterious woman with a Maxim-photo-shoot wardrobe who turns Charlie's head around in ways that he, of course, had never expected.
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His prowess as a live performer was matched only by his instrumental abilities: He has been called one of the most preternaturally gifted artists of all time by Rolling Stone.
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Upon closer inspection, the vision was revealed to be a female reticulated giraffe — tall, majestic and preternaturally white — and she was accompanied by a smaller apparition: a pale baby giraffe.
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Although nestled in Litchfield County, the preternaturally preserved Revolutionary War-era enclave where many wealthy New Yorkers keep second homes, Torrington remains an uncharted territory to most of those residents.
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Owlish, fierce, preternaturally wise, her dad's biggest headache as well as the bad apple of his eye, fallen for awhile right under the tree, Lockwood is an Athena-ish heroine.
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Dr. Mazen Rahmoun, a city health official in a neat brown suit, moved gingerly through the chaos with the preternaturally calm stare of a man long ago traumatized into numbness.
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A preternaturally shy child, Leola has a difficult time fitting in at school and in order to help her feel less lonely her mother tells her that her shadow is alive.
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"Ouroboros" opens with Flight 462's survivors (Charlie as well as Alex, a preternaturally calm young woman), doing what they have to do to stay alive in a flimsy emergency raft.
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Her heroines — invariably rich, thin, savvy, ambitious and preternaturally beautiful — are undisputed princesses, their castles the opulent hotels, condominiums, casinos and boutiques of New York, Paris, Beverly Hills and Monte Carlo.
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The part also requires a lot of physical comedy, and Dennison's timing is preternaturally perfect, with slapstick precision for maximum chuckles — though his nonchalant affection for Hec tugs at heartstrings, too.
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Instead, I marveled at the plush suites with their indoor and outdoor showers, the daily crepe happy hour, the preternaturally blue water, the cut-and-paste model of a tropical idyll.
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Although he retained a preternaturally youthful appearance for many years, Mr. Lewis had a series of serious illnesses in his later life, including prostate cancer, pulmonary fibrosis and two heart attacks.
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But with some exceptions, the President's demeanor -- defiant, arrogant, seemingly angry and preternaturally boastful -- seemed clearly tied to his frustration with an impeachment process that has dragged out for several months.
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This article originally appeared on Noisey UK. Preternaturally talented and gone far too soon, Elliott Smith has been a much-missed presence in the music industry since his death in 2003.
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As an artist and preternaturally optimistic person, Rachel wanted me to use my sadness and tentative joy in the work I meant to do, and that Rachel wanted me to do.
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For the majority of their long, preternaturally stable career, UK doom legends Paradise Lost have enjoyed the kind of steady, slow-burning success that most bands half their age would kill for.
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Her small-minded neighbors and classmates snicker behind her back about how her father has undoubtedly left her mother and how her preternaturally wise baby brother Charles Wallace is clearly a moron.
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Most episodes consist of Rick Sanchez, a preternaturally gifted scientist, dragging his timid 14-year-old grandson Morty (both voiced by co-creator Justin Roiland) along for madcap, sci fi–inflected adventures.
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There's something hopeful in that, I think—in the fact we're preternaturally invested in ourselves, but there's always this threat that we fall into complete self-interest and forget other people entirely.
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As for the inscrutable Klara, I have the feeling—although I have very little to go on—that she was preternaturally kind and good, and a little deficient in the humor department.
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But they immediately reveal three things: He was a preternaturally talented draftsman from the start; he was always wickedly funny; and he has always had an engineer's passion for the built world.
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Mr. Modi is preternaturally alert to the fact that the smartphone's screen is pulling hundreds of millions of Indians, who have barely emerged from illiteracy, into a wonderland of fantasy and myth.
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Already a legendary performer, this pop titan has had a preternaturally large presence in New York this year, thanks to a biographical musical, "The Cher Show," which ran on Broadway through August.
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She also suggests that Native American witches and wizards are preternaturally gifted in "animal and plant magic," and able to construct potions that are of higher complexity and construction than their European counterparts.
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At the same time, the cast isn't drawn clearly into protagonists and disposable side characters the way young-adult fiction often is, and even the strongest applicants aren't superhumanly tough or preternaturally beautiful.
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A member of City Ballet since 2005 and a principal since 2009, she is almost preternaturally self-assured, possessing an astounding technique that is made all the more radiant by her silken musicality.
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Undeterred by car-carriers and holiday traffic buzzing on all sides, HDL and company arranged the preternaturally white deer forms, and commenced the photo shoot, backlit by the downtown skyline and oncoming headlights.
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"Influencer" wouldn't be a viable career track — and it is, at least for a cohort of preternaturally beautiful people who know a thing or two about branding — if there weren't people to influence.
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A preternaturally talented and charming black man, Simpson sought to escape his racial identity and to be embraced by the white mainstream, in the process revealing a calculated, tragic, need to be loved.
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My father had lived until eighty-five—a vigorous, preternaturally healthy octogenarian at eighty-two—until he had spiraled inexplicably into a ferocious form of dementia that took his life in three years.
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At the same time, it stands to reason that in a town where young men's sexual violence is normalized, and even rewarded, a preternaturally gentle kid like John would be framed as perverse.
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Fixes San Francisco — The sun was preternaturally bright the day Clare Senchyna's 213 year-old son Camilo, her only child, was shot and killed in a random act of violence in San Francisco.
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While the media's reaction to Ms. Gerber's debut was frenzied ("Cindy Crawford's mini-me" was a popular response), her preternaturally centered parents were unfazed by the celebri-bomb going off in their midst.
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XOXO had a singular unfair advantage over most other conferences: the preternaturally good taste of Andy Baio, whose curatorial instincts lead him to some of the strangest and most beautiful parts of the internet.
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On his most thrilling songs, such as "Let's Go Crazy," from 1984, or "Sign o' the Times," from 1987, he sounds preternaturally relaxed, as if his musicianship was as innate to him as breathing.
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Yet the person tens of millions of viewers saw in this fall's debates was hugely impressive all the same: self-possessed, almost preternaturally calm under pressure, deeply prepared, clearly in command of policy issues.
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"It was antithetical to the rest of my businesses, which are based on buying fresh and selling fast," he said at the wine shop, preternaturally blue eyes peering over the top of his glasses.
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That year, Tina Fey's parody of Sarah Palin shot her to superstardom and helped harden the public's view of the Republican vice presidential nominee as preternaturally self-assured in the face of insurmountable deficiencies.
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Ways of Seeing With its preternaturally perceptive narrator and missing-person plot, Meg Rosoff's layered and brooding novel "Picture Me Gone" matches the emotional sophistication and suspenseful storytelling of many of your favorite books.
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And, in a fulfillment of Ms. Sands's prediction, he said the cats, which have become as much of a draw for some tourists as the house's history, had seemed preternaturally attuned to the storm.
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Hayley is one of those preternaturally talented solo operatives skilled in every endeavor, from her physical stamina to her administrative competence to her Jason Bourne-like cool in the face of near-death experiences.
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Prior to that scene, I wasn't sure what kind of a movie this was, other than a story about Brad Pitt as a preternaturally calm and emotionally closed-off astronaut in the near future.
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She appears preternaturally calm, especially given the frenzied response to her surprise visit to town (a short time before, the school hallway was so congested that she couldn't make it out to use the bathroom).
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This was no earthly grime; it was preternaturally sticky and abrasive, scratching the visors on the astronauts' helmets, weakening the seals on their pressure suits, irritating their eyes, and giving some of them sinus trouble.
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I even overcame my intense anxiety around our current political landscape to play NPR for hours, because I would rather listen to preternaturally calm voices describe natural disasters than sit in silence with this baby.
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In line with his existing oeuvre of glossy Bollywood extravaganzas like "Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham …" (2001) and "Ae Dil Hai Mushkil" (2016), Johar's ghost story stars a preternaturally attractive married couple and a palatial estate.
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Instead, the Netflix newbie and CW blockbuster are essentially television siblings, sharing a creator (Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa), an executive producer (the preternaturally busy Greg Berlanti), and a vault of source material (both are Archie Comics properties).
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Or rather, she did her to best to scold—she has preternaturally gentle way of speaking, her voice smooth and low in a way that is almost soothing enough to rock you into a soft slumber.
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Her third novel, " The Accidental " (2005), opens as the preternaturally brilliant twelve-year-old girl Astrid Smart is waking up, and reflecting on her family and the summer holiday they are taking in a Norfolk village.
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Venus Palermo (aka Venus Angelic) was perhaps the most famous of their first wave, appearing on the UK's Daybreak and My Strange Addiction dressed in full skirts and Mary Janes, accessorised with a preternaturally placid smile.
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But the young woman who spent her formative years in the boisterous landscape of fabulists that was the Chelsea Hotel did so more as an amused observer — preternaturally wise and self-deprecating — than an egocentric performer.
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Preternaturally beautiful, these startling-looking objects have appeared on fashion runways and design fairs, and live in the permanent collections of museums of both art and science, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Smithsonian.
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The leader of the T2 faction—a preternaturally tranquil and even-keeled Mormon named Ryan Jesperson—had sat in a room with Gevers and the lawyers for 10 hours of what he insisted was polite, amicable conversation.
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The stock market's recent volatility - punctuating a nine-year bull market that was preternaturally smooth over the past year - points to the possibility that recency bias could do a lot of damage to retirement portfolios this year.
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The creation story of the inkblots is part of the appeal and much of the problem—that Rorschach drew ten inkblots that seemed preternaturally effective emboldens the faction of the scientific community that view them like horoscopes.
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The game invites questions about the nature of the Hero's Journey: if you are a truly unique individual, preternaturally heroic and destined to save the world, where and with whom do you find a sense of belonging?
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With his preternaturally mature, intelligent but (by Hollywood standards) unremarkable looks, he was cast almost from the beginning as an authority figure — a father or a teacher, a doctor or a scientist, a mayor or a judge.
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But Sennia Nanua is just preternaturally great as the protagonist, a young girl who starts the movie in heavy restraints, listening to a teacher read Greek myths in an underground military bunker full of angry, paranoid soldiers.
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He is a preternaturally gifted songwriter not only in terms of melodies and hooks but also in the way his songs will wheel around so that verses complete full ideas and occasionally bring out gut-punching conclusions.
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Hill's aloof, dispassionate description of Thomas's harassment, and her preternaturally cool reaction to all the lurid slanders hurled at her, left the senators skeptical that she was telling the truth; shouldn't a wronged woman show more emotion?
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Lorelai shouts about how she no longer loves snow and how she and snow are breaking up, kicking at it in her cutesy rage, and not even Preternaturally Charming Person Lauren Graham can save the moment. 147.
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But they are also almost preternaturally calm in pressure-filled situations, as evidenced by the 10th, when Andujar stayed on an 0-2 slider from Peacock and lined it into the left-field corner for a double.
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By that measurement, "The New Edition Story," a vibrant, fiercely committed three-night mini-series that begins Tuesday on BET, is overflowing with love — a jubilant celebration of a group that was preternaturally talented and rivetingly tortured.
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OK, to be fair, this isn't a full confirmation that Dale Petey is, in fact, sliding around the sewer system in his spare time like a preternaturally flexible Ninja Turtle, but it's at least heavily hinted at.
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Preternaturally self-possessed, Ms. Collins was also highly photogenic — a factor that, coupled with the novelty of the siblings' youth, earned them regular invitations to appear on shows starring household names like Jackie Gleason and Dinah Shore.
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Replaceable quarterback cog Jake Coker has been swapped out for Jalen Hurts, a preternaturally calm true freshman with all of Blake Sims' mobility from two seasons ago, augmented with exponentially more command and dexterity in the passing game.
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The result is a cheat sheet for Pokémon Go: which moves cause the most damage in the fastest time, which species are preternaturally stronger, how high the hidden stat bonuses are estimated to be for a given 'mon.
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For any who've longed for the preternaturally wise acoustic troubadour of yore, the music envelopes like a hug from a long-lost friend—one who's been away for quite a long time and has a lot to share.
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All she needed was her lyrics, preternaturally analytic, wry, and shrewd; her chords, largely self-invented, a kind of calligraphy of the moods; and her voice, which modulates from patter to rue to rhapsody in a single phrase.
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Even amidst a chaotic schedule, Nelson was in a preternaturally good mood; she showed up wearing blue jeans and a cozy grey sweater, and her ready laugh and megawatt smile immediately put everyone in her orbit at ease.
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Ultimately, Djokovic's unyielding intensity and athleticism prevailed in the face of Federer's beautiful, hypnotic, flowing strokes as the two preternaturally gifted men toyed with their own different forms of perfection on one of the world's greatest sporting stages.
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The preternaturally great bad-ball hitter spoke for a few minutes in Spanish, thanking Mike Scioscia, the Angels' manager, and Felipe Alou, his manager with the Expos, while noting that Sunday was Father's Day in the Dominican Republic.
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Preternaturally articulate, Meg's psychic brother Charles can talk his way into and out of anything — and that includes convincing himself of the hubristic and near-fatal idea that he is strong enough to face IT on his own.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk is preternaturally attuned to the Next Big Thing, so he rapidly recast Tesla as a self-driving leader and unleashed the somewhat not-ready-for-prime-time Autopilot driver-assist system on the world.
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Wellness enthusiasts probably have heard of Taryn Toomey, the preternaturally glowy blonde behind the Class, the celebrity-approved fitness craze billed as "a heart-centered cathartic movement practice," which sometimes involves pounding on your chest like a gorilla.
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Neither a townie nor a rich-kid summer resident, the skinny but cocky Daniel takes notice of two fellow teenagers: the hunky drug dealer and local legend, Hunter (Alex Roe), and the preternaturally attractive tough girl, McKayla (Maika Monroe).
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In this dreadful place, the meeting of flesh and photography is almost primal, with the cinematographer David Ungaro bringing a brutish beauty and innocence to Billy's preternaturally pale skin — an unmarked canvas in a gallery of ink and scars.
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One was a buoyant, lucid and probing account of Bach's "Goldberg" Variations that many critics compared favorably to Glenn Gould's influential version; the other was a glowing, preternaturally mature account of Schubert's spacious late Sonata in G, Op. 250.
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I could not have told you what that identity was except that its highest form appeared to be something like a blue-eyed, blond surfer with a golden tan, preternaturally skilled at riding the waves of his native beach.
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At a time when candidates prefer their events as staged and predictable as possible, the result was a chaotic show of raw emotion and anger with grieving black residents facing off with the preternaturally calm 37-year-old mayor.
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Almost a year after the news that Angelina Jolie was filing for divorce from Brad Pitt after 11 years of marriage, tabloid gossip, and preternaturally beautiful children, Jolie broke her silence on the cover of Vanity Fair's September issue.
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Preternaturally though typically calm (too calm, for some tastes), the ratiocination almost visible in his composed features, he was obliged to welcome into the Oval Office a successor who, by spearheading the "birther" movement, had contested his right to occupy it.
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Proof that after a certain age, unless you're preternaturally youthful or willing to extinguish signs of wear and tear using Instagram tools, then all the famous "gazes" (the male gaze, the fashion gaze and the social media gaze) are repelled.
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When Americans were introduced last year to Ivanka Trump's husband and the nation's prospective son-in-law in chief, it was as the preternaturally poised, Harvard-educated scion of a real-estate empire whose glittering ambitions resembled Donald Trump's own.
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A historic Biden-Obama ticket would offer a powerful, inspirational and compelling vision of America to a nation and world enduring the debilitating fatigue of the most bitterly divisive and preternaturally deceitful president who has ever served in the White House.
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Pulling off this show requires knowing that Snoopy (Aidan Gemme) has to be both cute and somewhat manic; that Lucy (Mavis Simpson-Ernst) is both a bully and a fragile egomaniac; that these characters are both naïvely young and preternaturally adult.
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There's solace in this song, though, coming from the preternaturally wise 15-year-old Wayne, who, as he would do when he based a song around the line a couple years later, breaks his taboo on cursing for the occasion.
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Able to serenely convert all manner of potential pain or happiness into plot fodder, the preternaturally unperturbed star is an aspirational subject exactly because of her uncanny ability to withstand and master the relentless, rollicking shocks that contemporary life serves up.
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Nick Cave's Until was preternaturally of the moment, an eye-popping commentary on gun violence and the endurance of racism, with a room full of hanging wind-catchers and an intricately designed cloud-scape you had to climb steps to see.
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The preternaturally gifted Ms. Wang — showily attired as usual, in a gown with a plunging neckline — joined the orchestra in Ravel's Piano Concerto in G, playing with energy and flair in the outer movements and limpid grace in the central Adagio.
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But in this darkest timeline, no object can be so ludicrous that the preternaturally wealthy will decline to throw money at it, in a desperate bid for edginess within lifestyles so buffered from reality that this somehow seems worth it.
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When in Paris, the count bought the hottest of contemporary art: airy, splashy Rococo painting, including François Boucher's "The Triumph of Venus," in which the goddess of love is borne on the waves while reclining in silks that remain preternaturally dry.
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When Americans were introduced last year to Ivanka Trump's husband and the nation's prospective son-in-law in chief, it was as the preternaturally poised, Harvard-educated scion of a real estate empire whose glittering ambitions resembled Donald Trump's own.
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Each in their early 20s, all three have emerged in the last few years as singular forces in indie rock, earning acclaim for preternaturally sharp lyrics and commanding voices on albums that have set the bar for a new generation of singer-songwriters.
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LeeBrian is a nimble, flexible vocalist — sometimes agitated, sometimes preternaturally relaxed, and often toggling between both, like on the whimsical "Goku Sin El Ki." CARAMANICA Lil Tjay is an exuberant, sweet-voiced singer-rapper from the Bronx with an easy instinct for melody.
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Diane is a preternaturally precocious child, made so by her mother, the pinup-perfect Marie, who is so thoroughly governed by her dependence on female competition for self-worth that she considers her infant daughter to be her greatest rival, and neglects her.
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While other fashion designers are more likely hurrying to finalize their show details in the usual New York Fashion Week mania, Glemaud is preternaturally calm and present during the walk-through as he discusses music and drink offerings with a small team.
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When in Paris, the count bought the hottest of contemporary art: airy, splashy Rococo painting, including François Boucher's "The Triumph of Venus" (1740), in which the goddess of love is borne on the waves while reclining in silks that remain preternaturally dry.
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In person, he's preternaturally tanned (he holidays in the United Arab Emirates, "the shortest flight to the most sun"), and his voice, a languid Californian drawl, redolent of the state where he lived until the age of 42, softens his doomsday portents.
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Both the Ethridge children are preternaturally blonde, and the older — an ebullient girl of perhaps eight or nine — began emulating her father, attempting to capture a still from the video with the blue Instax Mini that she carried throughout much of the opening.
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In fact, while he's always been preternaturally good at putting the bat on pitches in the zone, and that hasn't changed in 2016, he's actually been about eight percent less likely to make contact on pitches outside of the zone this year than last.
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Known since the age of 15 as a preternaturally wise and unpredictable songwriter, Mr. Marshall, now 23, has assumed the mantle of a bard for the shrouded underclass, churning his anxiety, depression and insomnia into swampy, after-dark tales for the mischievous and disaffected.
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It's a novel that announces the debut of a preternaturally gifted new writer — a writer who at the age of 24 demonstrates both an instinctive storytelling talent and a fully fashioned voice that's street-smart and learned, sassy and philosophical all at the same time.
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How you react to Sara is likely to mirror your feelings about Fisher, the celebrated author revered as the founder of gastronomic belles lettres, whose beauty, independence and bravery have inspired generations of plucky, introspective, preternaturally perceptive writers — or writers who wish to be all those things.
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If real-life factors such as the luxury tax (which Minnesota would shoot into by 225) or a desire to patiently cultivate their preternaturally gifted youth are eliminated from the equation, it's technically possible for Minnesota to offer someone like Paul Millsap a four-year max contract.
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A six-pack of action figures available at Target eschewed Rey in favor of a generic Resistance pilot, while a Millennium Falcon play set included only Chewbacca and John Boyega's Finn, despite the fact it's preternaturally gifted pilot Rey who's handed the keys to the iconic ship.
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He adapted the dynamic of the New York School's monumental paintings: monochromatic expanses, occasioning awe, like those of Barnett Newman, overlaid with moodily imperfect silk-screened photography of grisly car crashes, say, or the preternaturally beautiful face of Elizabeth Taylor, each fearsome in a peculiar way.
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The enduring holiday side dish relies on only four ingredients: cut green beans (usually frozen), condensed cream of mushroom soup, milk, and, of course, French-fried onions in a can; those salty, preternaturally crispy curls are surprisingly the culprits for the demise of many wild animals.
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A few weeks out from her long awaited second album, and about four years since the first, Lorde has resurfaced as clever and mysterious as she first emerged—then a preternaturally self-aware 16-year-old from Auckland, New Zealand with an anti-pop pop agenda.
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Now Dawkins, a preternaturally composed young man whom I have written about several times, reappears as a star of "The Scheme," an HBO Sports documentary directed by Pat Kondelis that was available to reporters on Tuesday and will air for the first time on March 31.
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Throughout her career to date — particularly in the projects she's done with Batmanglij and Mike Cahill, all three of whom are old friends from Georgetown — Marling, 33, has gravitated to a certain type of role: enigmatic, preternaturally wise women who seem not quite of this plane of existence.
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The most important leviathan, of course, is Ms. Johansson, whose mysterioso cyborg, Major, effortlessly slides right into this scene, with her preternaturally still face – often as blank as a mask – and the ports in the back of her neck that she uses to jack into cables and other characters.
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Miranda is not only a natural choice for the role—we already knew he was preternaturally talented and there really is no working Broadway star who parallels Miranda's cultural capital or impact—he's also a testament to the ways our whitest cultural artifacts benefit immeasurably from becoming, well, less white.
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Antelope is a preternaturally quiet and isolated place—one recent arrival says that for her first months there, she thought every car going through town was speeding because of the roaring it made in the silence—and the constant sense of a presence so close, so different, is almost tangible.
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Twenty years later she still feels guilty, though Harry has grown up to be a preternaturally self-possessed young man, buoyed by loving, enlightened parents and the kind of high school environment that has L.G.B.T.Q. clubs and students who erupt into applause when he collects his diploma wearing red platform stilettos.
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As a general rule, American or European outlets don't care about anything that actually happens in Canada so much as they appreciate the myth that Canada is a liberal utopia and the fact that it is now sold to them by a preternaturally charming man is icing on the content cake.
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Yet they were driven wild by the muscular application of the Jewish brain: Maccabees rolling under the bellies of armored Greek elephants to stab the soft undersides; Mossad missions whose odds, means, and results verged on magic; computer viruses so preternaturally complicated and smart they couldn't not leave Jewish fingerprints.
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His preternaturally relevant imagery challenges and discomforts the contemporary eye to such an extent that its effect on the viewers of his own time is all but unimaginable, but not undocumented: he was, in fact, thrown in jail over what he chose to depict and whom he allowed to see it.
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Ultimately, I'm willing to pay a little bit more if need be — and even have my tinted moisturizer look a little less preternaturally luminescent — if that means I don't have to pull on reading glasses and pull up Google every time I buy something new just in case it's laced with carcinogens.
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Especially in his (very tame) nude scene, Mr. Pine is working in a mode previously explored by Chris Hemsworth in "Ghostbusters" and Channing Tatum in pretty much everything — the preternaturally attractive man who wears his beauty lightly, who is both willing to be objectified and to make a joke of his objectification.
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The 80-plus page document released Tuesday by the White House appears to be just the opposite: a one-hand clapping exercise preternaturally tilted toward Israeli needs and requirements without the benefit of the due diligence required to produce a sustainable basis for negotiations on which both Israelis and Palestinians could engage.
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I don't mention in the kindergarten essay that my husband and I call our daughter "Rasputin," because she's preternaturally unstoppable, and occasionally "The Emotional Terrorist," when she doesn't want to cooperate with our request that she be "a ninja sister" at bedtime, tiptoeing into bed so as not to wake her sleeping brother.
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Risso, a preternaturally boyish man of 36 clad in a floppy fisherman's cap and a thick mint sweater safety-pinned together at the shoulder, bobbed through the building's labyrinth of rooms — nearly deserted at this late hour — until we reached the long, white showroom where his stylists and designers were finishing their fittings.
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If you already have a hard time shopping for your friends and family when the holidays roll around, let alone when you leave things until the last minute, then we're betting you've got no clue what to buy for the biggest, preternaturally athletic, and frankly pickiest people on your list—elite NBA players.
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Today, every controversy that arises on campus has the potential to tarnish the image that generations' worth of administrators have crafted to keep admissions numbers high and donations pouring in—that is, the banner shot of carefree students, tossing a Frisbee on a well-kept lawn with a preternaturally diverse group of their classmates.
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For as much as Eddie (Hudson Yang) and his preternaturally adorable siblings have felt out of place in Florida, they've never actually seen where their parents (an earnest Randall Park and the incredibly sharp Constance Wu) grew up, so this unusual premiere will undoubtedly throw them into some brand new situations before they head back to Florida.
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Taking the mound for the Dodgers was rookie revelation Walker Buehler, a hard-throwing and preternaturally confident can't-miss prospect who started his career with the Dodgers very well—in his first start, he threw five scoreless innings, allowing four hits, walking three and striking out five—and has with each successive appearance drawn closer to looking unhittable.
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Jamison, who is the author of a novel, The Gin Closet, and a lauded collection of essays, The Empathy Exams, is preternaturally canny about the so-called "confessional" genre she has chosen to write in, sidestepping most of its potential pitfalls—such as an atmosphere of claustrophobic solipsism—while retaining its aspects of immediacy and beguilingly unhip self-revelation.
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Because those who go fishing must fish where the fish reside, and many of these voters are viewers of Fox News, smart Democrats would welcome, not shun, a debate moderated by respected journalists on the news side of Fox with a recent history of conducting fair debates — as opposed to the preternaturally biased Fox evening opinion hosts.
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It's a pretty airtight roster: weighted blankets (both luxe and bargain), great pillows (one cooling, one perfect traditional, and one preternaturally bouncy thanks to copper wiring), crisp sheets, atmospheric smart lights, and last but not least, a mattress pad that makes me hop in a cab home from the airport just to get into bed faster.
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Perhaps the feline musings and antics will appeal to very young children, but the grown-up side of the plot, a phallic mess about which of two companies can build the tallest building in North America, will lose youngsters unless they are preternaturally knowledgeable about boardroom warfare and what it means to take a private company public.
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A preternaturally poised 13-year-old, fine-boned and an inch shy of 5 feet tall, she moved as directed from spot to spot in a sunlight-flooded corner of the Pershing Square Signature Center, where she is making her Off Broadway debut in the New Group production of David Rabe's play "Good for Otto," opening March 8.
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Since the 1950s and 60s, Asian Americans have been designated as the success story for immigrants coming to the U.S. The model minority myth says that all Asians are hardworking, non-disruptive, have strong family values, and raise kids that are preternaturally intelligent, excel at classical music, and go to Ivy League schools for engineering and medicine.
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" (That echo of "a telltale heart" is surely intentional: In one of this novel's many well-deployed literary allusions, Edgar's middle name is Allan.) He is painfully aware that his appearance sets him apart, the preternaturally pale skin, shock of white hair, green eyes and "wrists so thin the bones rose like the lurky eyes of an alligator.
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Surely it's a contender: On January 20, an irascibly bombastic real estate mogul and reality star who once accused the President of being a fraud will step up to the plate as commander in chief himself, taking the mantle from the man -- community organizer and law professor, preternaturally calm in public -- he once claimed might never have really been President at all.
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This blog has mostly treated Tha Block Is Hot as part of a level playing field with the rest of Wayne's catalog: Sure, he was less developed as an artist here, but he was already preternaturally dexterous on the beat, and, in hindsight, there's no question that he had the raw talent and drive to mature into Lil Wayne the superstar.
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While you would think the first thing people would notice about a supermodel like Kate Upton would be her preternaturally good looks or enviable physique, she admitted to PeopleStyle in our 5 Questions video series, appearing in conjunction with Link AKC smart collar, that more likely than not it's not her eyes that people are immediately drawn to, but her dog's!
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An experimental series of one lavish mise-en-scène after another, the film is mostly stripped of dialogue: we begin in Plymouth Sound, England, 1554, with slow, meandering shots of silent Elizabethan explorers, their ilk — specifically a red-lipped woman and a preternaturally blonde man — and a few African men, usually in robes but sometimes in the same finery as the white royalty.
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I happen to revere him most in motion, as in the hotfooted thrill of " The Last of the Mohicans " (1992), but he is equally a champion of stillness, and he seems, like certain rare sportsmen, to be preternaturally blessed with time—enough time, that is, to take stock of a situation, while people bustle around him, and to ponder his next move.
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Cocky and preternaturally sophisticated — but with a hint of the insecure teenager still hanging around him — Elio joins his doting, unconventional parents (Michael Stuhlbarg and Amira Casar) at their comfortable ramshackle Italian villa, where they prepare to welcome their annual guest, the latest in a series of graduate students who spend the summer working with Elio's father, a classics professor.
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In one of the most fascinating developments of the 2016 campaign, which will be dramatized when Warren rouses the Democratic convention to standing ovations and deafening applause, the gentlelady from Massachusetts has repeatedly bested the ungentlemanly braggart and heir to Nixon who preternaturally divides the nation, believes he is right about everything, and has a problem dealing with brilliant and powerful women.
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Unlike other suburban-set shows of the era — Rugrats, say, or Doug — Hey Arnold's preternaturally mature children of P.S. 113, a middle school in the fictitious city of Hillwood (which may or not be located on the West Coast, according to the show's creator, Craig Bartlett, but which is, Bartlett says, based in part on his time in Brooklyn), didn't necessarily come from traditional nuclear families.
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At 5, she gave up sugar in solidarity with French troops stationed at the front of World War I. It's not merely that she was preternaturally attentive to the suffering of others, she was determined to cast her lot with them — to live without heat and keep strict rations, to fling herself into factory work and volunteer in mines and fields — often with disastrous results.
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At 5, she gave up sugar in solidarity with French troops stationed at the front of World War I. It's not merely that she was preternaturally attentive to the suffering of others, she was determined to cast her lot with them — to live without heat and keep strict rations, to fling herself into factory work and volunteer in mines and fields — often with disastrous results.
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Sitting there in a small darkened room with a few other students, watching images of Hitler flicker on the small screen, not being present in that immense stadium with thousands of chanting people, listening to the magnetic timbre of Hitler's voice without understanding a word of the language other than Die Juden and Judenfrei, I still found Hitler a preternaturally compelling figure, even at that distance in time.
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Like a classic bildungsroman, "The Songs We Know Best" tells the story of a shy, sensitive, preternaturally gifted boy who weathers a lonely childhood on a farm, awakens to the joys and mysteries of art, poetry and sex as a teenager, and finally assumes his true vocation as a poet when he arrives in the big city and falls in with a circle of revolutionary writers and artists.
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In Leo's mind — as we discover throughout a day in which his preternaturally patient daughter, Molly (Elle Fanning), escorts him to the dentist, the eye doctor and, when he wets his pants, a big-box store to buy new trousers — he is living neither now nor in the past, but is switching back and forth between two alternate presents: realities that never came to pass because he chose other roads, long ago.
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My friend, a nice kid on the lam from middle-class, suburban Jewish parents, had transformed himself into a Philly street character whose intimidating range of knowledge, arcane reading, provocative ideas, and batty eloquence, despite my reservations about his lack of personal hygiene, drew me to him as he was drawn to me, despite or because of our obvious differences, me growing up poor, therefore street tough, streetwise, he assumed, a jock who played college ball, physically attractive, smart enough, though intellectually underdeveloped, politically unsophisticated, naïve, poorly read, innocently gregarious, but my new buddy soon perceived that I was ambitious, ruthless and predatory in my dealings with other people as he was, my insightful, observant, preternaturally selfish, shamelessly inquisitive, greedy new acquaintance.
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