Like Mickey Mantle, it might even be the preternaturally gifted athlete gracing the game.
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How can a man who had such a difficult background be so preternaturally self-confident?
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The bar was always raised very high for his team, almost preternaturally.
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Federer was the elegant artist, almost balletic in his movement, and preternaturally refined, as if he'd been raised in the pocket of Sean Connery's smoking jacket.
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Where a single snap may miss out on detail in the lightest and darkest areas, an HDR image of the same scene looks preternaturally well lit (see above).
To do it well, however, requires a combination of preternaturally exact directorial timing and a cast whose members are alert to the underlying pathos of Mr. Ives's bizarrely skewed comic situations.
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Most of the latter had come from London, drawn, as were Walter Sickert and James McNeill Whistler through several winters in the 1880s, by the vivid and naturalistic subject matter and the preternaturally clear light.
Louisville, dressed in "infrared" orange uniforms that should be sold with a duck whistle at a hunting supply store, had rallied to tie the game late, but the Wildcats, preternaturally unruffled, shrugged and slapped them away.
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In September of that year, convinced that the Times had become lethargic, Sulzberger chose Howell Raines, a distinctly hot personality who had been running the editorial pages, to succeed Joseph Lelyveld, a preternaturally cool Times lifer, as executive editor.
The uninspired, generic Hollywood score often makes the premise feel preposterous rather than moving, but there are some high points, including a gorgeous Michael Hedges tune that gets passed off as an original by August (which he plays the first time he picks up a guitar) and a gospel number featuring a solo by the preternaturally gifted young singer Jamia Simone Nash.
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