| At first I couldn't make out the words, just the preternaturally LOUD sound of a boy's voice flatly declaiming some sort of Important Announcement. |
| Longtime Devine-watchers pointed to Stan's fondness for playing the ponies, but he's also a basketball and football enthusiast, and has had some preternaturally bad picks. |
| But later, when they're over-rehearsed into being preternaturally wise and all-seeing, they start to cloy. |
| As they approach that limit they become preternaturally intelligent and violently paranoiac. |
| Though he's preternaturally young, his unmediated aggressiveness has tempered any bit of boyishness. |
| He changes his off-white shirt for a beige one that makes him look, if anything, even more preternaturally pale. |
