Sentences with phrase «singular talent»

Durant is at the height of his genius, and Klay Thompson and Draymond Green are still singular talents in their own rights.

The film's assuredness of tone, pace and form illustrate clearly the deftness of the direction from Benny and Josh Safdie and mark them out as singular talents.

The lack of clear explanation for much of the film's occurrences will undoubtedly test the patience of many viewers over the course of 115 minutes, but I found Innocence to be a remarkable, sensuous and bold work which defies categorisation and announces Hadzihalilovic as a truly singular talent.

The result of singular talent coupled with dogged, indefatigable effort, Friedlander has photographed almost every day since the late 1950s.

As Tony Kuehn writes in his BookPage review, «This book is a living, breathing testament to Evison's singular talent for creating portraits of people who may be fictional, but nevertheless are so vital that one is certain their names must be in a historic register somewhere.»

Diane, George and David are all singular talents, one - of - a kind journalists, gifted storytellers and uniquely skilled broadcasters who inspire us, every day, to do our very best work.

(Today's example is Tiger Woods, and admittedly the cases of Elvis and Michael Jackson, bizarre people with singular talent, are more complicated.)

This is one of the most efficient scoring performances ever in the Finals and a direct reflection of the gifts that make him a singular talent within NBA history.

Urlacher, OTOH, was a singular talent, the best at his position for the vast majority of his NFL career.

The singular talent of any true leader is an ability to articulate.

He added that Blake has a «singular talent and a singular rolodex» given his direct relationship with Obama and relationships across the country and the party «would be well - served by infusion of new energies» given the 2016 election results.

«He's a singular talent with the experience necessary to tackle the challenges and maximize the opportunities presented over the next two years.

Critics Consensus: By turns intoxicating and confounding, El Topo contains the creative multitudes that made writer - director Alejandro Jodorowsky such a singular talent.

Critic Consensus: By turns intoxicating and confounding, El Topo contains the creative multitudes that made writer - director Alejandro Jodorowsky such a singular talent.

Once hailed as a «boy genius» with enough gumption to turn Batman into his own darkly personal vision, Tim Burton has lately seemed confused about how to further adapt his singular talent to mainstream entertainment.

As he transitions to directing as well, Kaufman is continuing to leave his mark as a singular talent, which is only increasing his -LSB-...]

You have absolutely no doubt that she thinks Baby Driver is both a) special and b) lacking but c) doesn't want to be churlish about it because Edgar Wright is such a singular talent.

Said True Blood creator Alan Ball: «Nelsan was a singular talent whose creativity never ceased to amaze me.

It would take someone of singular talent and charisma to make a script so full of pitfalls as Fruitvale Station work on any appreciable level.

Undoubtedly, the album has many demonstrations of Monáe's singular talent.

This violent contradiction may explain why comedian Ernie Kovacs — who died in an auto accident nearly 50 years ago, at the full flower of his creativity — still seems like such a singular talent.

Pawel Pawlikowski, a London - based Polish writer - director, established himself as a singular talent with his first two films, 2000's Last Resort and 2004's My Summer of Love.

An aversion to self - editing may be Kelly's Achilles» heel as a filmmaker, but whatever the future may hold for this singular talent, his first feature remains a pure pleasure — a work that maneuvers its wild tonal shifts, its spasms of humor and density of ideas with an astonishing sense of control.

The chair of BAFTA's Games Committee, Nick Button - Brown, credited North's «singular talents» in voice and motion - capture performance in a press release.

In fact, Alton is Roy's son, and he's a very unusual child who must be kept in pitch darkness because of his singular talents — and the dangerous intensity of his blue eyes isn't the half of it.

«We are honored that Harrison is joining us on this journey with Denis Villeneuve, who is a singular talent, as we experienced personally on Prisoners,» Alcon's Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson said in a statement.

Christopher Nolan is a singular talent, and although his latest strays far from the epic and character driven narratives he is known for, the director proves once again that he can master almost any coda in the cinematic language.

This collection gathers 43 of them, many featuring hard - living women like herself and showcasing her singular talent for immediacy, wry humor and searing honesty.

In her review of that novel, BookPage reviewer Kelly Koepke wrote that Allende's «singular talent for storytelling... grows stronger with each new work.»

A Clatter of Jars by Lisa Graff Kids should first read National Book Award nominated A Tangle of Knots, then pick up A Clatter of Jars, which continues five years later with the same central characters at Camp Atropos for Singular Talents.

Weep, though, is a city still reeling from the aftermath of a brutal war, and hidden there is a girl named Sarai and her four companions, all of whom have singular talents and devastating secrets.

«His singular talents, in both voice and mocap performance, help to tell incredible stories and make our game worlds so much more interesting.

Finally confirmed by Sony, the latest adventure from the creator of Ico and Shadow of the Colossus marks the return of a singular talent in gaming

But these portraits, brought together for the first time in more than 300 years, are two very touching documents to the life of one man with a singular talent for seeing humanity in the everyday.»

Nikolic's capacity to finesse pigments behaviour, encouraging it, compelling it, inviting it to enter the most beautiful and at times boisterous relationships is a singular talent.

The Met, though, has a singular talent for self - congratulation — and a disturbing one.

Even as late as 1976, Robert Hughes said Still was «a singular talent whose dimension will not be fully known in his own lifetime.»