Sentences with phrase «uncanny skill»

There are hushed stories about some of his remarkable feats — uncanny skills with animals, for example.

Somerset by using his uncanny skills hits a lucky break by tracing the killer's address to a library card.

Teenaged Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) is a legend in his own time thanks to his uncanny skill at cutting classes and getting away with it.

Canadian - born actor James Doohan trained for his career at New York's Neighborhood Playhouse and built much of his reputation upon his uncanny skill at foreign dialects.

Abrams apes the style of Lucas and Irvin Kershner and Richard Marquand with uncanny skill, with all the iris wipes and wacky transitions and rack focusing that came to define the look of this long ago and far away galaxy.

Charle Soule explores Dameron's uncanny skills and matching bravado.

In From Hell, Moore has an uncanny skill of introducing characters from every walk of life in Victorian London and beyond (from the lowliest beggar to the big V herself) and making each and every one of them matter to you, and each one deftly brought to life in a short but poignant scene.

«With powerful, compact language and an uncanny skill with imagery, American writer Frances Mayes has raised the bar on writing memoirs.»

Watch as Cesar uses his uncanny skills to rehabilitate dogs...

Along with an uncanny skill at his craft, he has a keen eye for a subject and a sure power of expression.

(It also exemplifies the uncanny skill with which Mr. Penck intuited where the stretchers — which the paintings acquired only once they were in the West — would eventually crop the images.

His career seems to be one of ceaseless ambition, socially conscious generosity and an uncanny skill that he is still harnessing.