Sentences with phrase «uncanny knack for»

When working with families, one of the many barriers that tend to arise is that they have an uncanny knack for pulling clinicians into their chaos.

That's likely because a mobile toddler has an uncanny knack for finding the most dangerous things to explore!

Published by Vox Media, Eater is a favorite of industry pros and amateurs alike, with an uncanny knack for finding out what's opening where, who's serving what, and how it's all going down.

My clients appreciate working with me because I have an extremely likeable personality, and an uncanny knack for being both funny and serious at the same time.

Frank Stella credited Dick's skill to ESP about the artist, downplaying the issue of taste; and David Whitney ascribed his track record to his «uncanny knack for detecting high ambition.»

In his palette especially, Little demonstrates an uncanny knack for art's evocative power and range.

From ink - jet prints to environmental installations and sculptures made of wax, bronze, and bread, Urs Fischer has an uncanny knack for taking just about any material or place and making it into an Urs Fischer.

This manifested itself in an uncanny knack for making his guests feel comfortable and secure.

Dogs and cats seem to share our sweet tooth and have an uncanny knack for sniffing out holiday treats.

I have an uncanny knack for finding mistakes in books, like in almost every book I read.

Playdead showed an uncanny knack for creating surreal and terrifying worlds with their 2010 atmospheric puzzler Limbo, the essence of which...

Part of Capcom's longevity is thanks to their uncanny knack for creating unexpected hits like Mega Man in 1987, Street Fighter II in 1991, Resident Evil in 1996 and Dead Rising in 2006, that become huge franchises that create entire new genres for the business.

Apatow, who deserves to be regarded as the preeminent figure in American comedy right now, has shown an uncanny knack for fostering bright young comic talent, and because he loves comics so much and is so fascinated by their process — the way John Cassavetes loved Method actors and their process — his productions tend to brim with scene - stealing supporting players, amusing non sequiturs, and running times (124 minutes in the case of The Five - Year Engagement) that few comedies in the history of moving pictures have shouldered without eventually buckling under.

Ray had an uncanny knack for establishing a physical space that somehow echoed his characters» emotional state.

Everyone around him seems to think this isn't at all likely to happen, but as someone who has only recently been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, Pat has an uncanny knack for living in denial.

In films such as «Inside Llewyn Davis» and «A Most Violent Year,» Oscar Isaac, the man with two first names, has shown an uncanny knack for playing quietly intense, often unlikable characters that nonetheless have an undeniable magnetism.

What is frustrating though is that no matter how good you seem to race the Plutonians have an uncanny knack for catching up to you at the last possible second.

For their uncanny knack for predicting the stock market soon conveniently dovetails with his need for help on the job where he's currently caught up in a cutthroat competition for a top position with Johnny Whitefeather (Church).

Inferno reunites director Ron Howard with Tom Hanks who reprises his lead role as a genius with an uncanny knack for deciphering ancient symbols and religious iconography.

Logically sound plots and A + B roadmaps aren't appropriate vehicles for where he's going; he instead commissions the immaterial: elaborate yet nuanced characters, set designs that pack every inch with purpose, and an uncanny knack for harnessing the best from his actors (like the bottomless well that was Philip Seymour Hoffman's versatility).

Redelmeier has an uncanny knack for using simple statistics to turn up unexpected results.

Colleagues say she has an uncanny knack for working backward from an ultimate goal and breaking it into a manageable sequence of steps.

``... Tinubu's outstanding qualities, like his deep intellect, prodigious hard work, attention to details and uncanny knack for picking the right person for the right job.»

The Classical Theatre of Harlem latest's production, The Tempest, has an uncanny knack for timing.

My parents have this uncanny knack for turning up in clutch moments when we could really use help, and we're better off for it.

Kids have an uncanny knack for throwing their loudest tantrums in a grocery store or a nice restaurant.

Toddlers still need lots of rest (the typical tot needs 12 to 14 hours per 24 - hour period), but they have an uncanny knack for circumventing sleep.

I seem to have an uncanny knack for constantly running into NBA players past & present as I roam Chicago.

She has an uncanny knack for creating scoring opportunities when there aren't any.

His reach is simply superhuman, and he has an uncanny knack for deception.

But now he's with the Spurs, who have an uncanny knack for finding rotation players with late first round picks like the No. 29 selection.

Even when he isn't catching passes, Cooks seems to have an uncanny knack for forcing defensive pass interference calls on deep balls this season.

The senior senator from Massachusetts has led the fight for tougher regulations on Wall Street, and she has an uncanny knack for marshaling public support for such an esoteric project.

Not exact matches

Matthew Perryman Jones has a knack for writing songs that are so unabashedly human, they bear an uncanny resemblance to your own life.

I'm all for highlighting potential upsets but I'm wary about tipping up a Bolton triumph this weekend, mainly because United have had this uncanny knack of grounding out result at home even when they're in a sticky situation, much like they are now with all their injuries.

Lionel insists on calling Albert «Bertie,» and possesses the uncanny knack of emerging from the loo — having just flushed the toilet — each time his royal charge arrives for sessions.

Streep's performance here, as a bewigged, sharp - tongued, cancer - afflicted matriarch, is a much stronger demonstration of her knack for characterization than her uncanny Margaret Thatcher impression.

Already, with his first feature, Saturo displays an uncanny sense for finding just the right place for his camera, and a knack for bringing out the unexpected in every scene, as he follows a lonely high - school student's mysterious, quixotic search for the identity of a homeless man who's apparently been killed by young street thugs.

But Sammak also has a knack for finding the uncanny in the mundane and translating little bits of cultural detritus to something fun to look at.

From the closure of the market at Covent Garden and the last ever rag and bone man to the end of legal smoking in public places and the final days of Woolworths — O'Brien has an uncanny knack of photographing something before it's gone for good, never to be seen again.