His friends, too, have a sense that his preternatural abilities mark him out for finer things.

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Cook and other grade school entrepreneurs have tools that preternatural brethren from earlier generations did not.

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Hermione (Emma Watson) shows preternatural aplomb, but then she has been forty since the age of ten.

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"Dad won't give me a break, " says the shaggy-haired, 6-foot-2 teenager, who at the helm displays preternatural calmness.

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"Nature" includes such exquisite landscapes as William Dyce's "Pegwell Bay, Kent, " its crystalline realism less Romantic than preternatural.

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Their common thread: singular focus, preternatural financial savvy and the optimism and confidence to wrest financing from seasoned investors.

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Wells is part of an elite club of preternatural wealth builders who managed to cobble million-dollar enterprises before they graduated from college.

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Drawing his figures in earthtones, Malskat took up the spare 14th century style with preternatural ease and an utter lack of inhibition.

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The effect is preternatural--bringing an immediacy to the past that is paradoxically fresher than the present--and is accomplished with careful attention to the texture of materials and the play of light on surfaces, modulated with projected shadow.

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Powell recalls Heywood's "preternatural calm".

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