He is a being with no preternatural qualities, and differs from real living animals only in extreme smallness and agility. |
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The whites of his eyes were large in my view and surrounding two jet black preternatural pupils unlike any I had seen before. |
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Bacon, Galileo and Descartes rejected the preternatural je ne sais quoi in favour of a scientific examination of nature. |
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Abruptly, Beth and the other vampire joined the fray, fighting with teeth as well as preternatural speed and strength. |
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But more than anything else, I heard expressions of awe at the president's preternatural certainty and wonderment about its source. |
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For example, I've been in the Marines for over half my life and yet I've retained a preternatural instinct for interior design. |
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It starts out slow and ethereal, but when the chorus comes, it effloresces into a symphony of preternatural sound that blows you away. |
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The assistant moves with preternatural delicacy, and speed, and soon the ant is seated. |
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He's developed a preternatural ability to get the squeaker out of any toy, always accompanied by clouds of Hollofil. |
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Tsai's preternatural simplicity wondrously collapses the spaces between viewer and viewed, depicter and depicted. |
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Houdini exerted a preternatural control over his body, wriggling out of straitjackets by dislocating his shoulders. |
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Lots of converters cost more, but not many can match its preternatural realism, and especially its musicality. |
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Schwarzenegger is adept at disguising his true feelings beneath a mask of preternatural calm, but he was suddenly doubly alert. |
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Giant machines and preternatural contraptions can dominate the landscape. |
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And for a few brief minutes the skies opened and sunlight streamed down from above, lighting the lake from within, giving the jellyfish a preternatural glow. |
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In those works, skies and landscapes seem filled with portents, animals convey a preternatural awareness, and lurid light touches everything with strange glamour. |
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And truly, the lack of coverage by the world's most powerful media outlets and the fact that all guests are sworn to secrecy gives the whole conference a preternatural aura. |
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All it takes is a preternatural sense of musical trends and history, a cunning knack for timing, and the willingness to completely reinvent yourself. |
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But he will need preternatural skills to achieve a victory against Mr Hollande. |
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But if the French found Mr Sarkozy's self-promoting hyperactivity stressful, they now find Mr Hollande's preternatural calm unnerving. |
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The Sarlacc has a preternatural awareness of when and where its targets will appear. |
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Yet as great as our strides have been, space-with all its preternatural and interconnected riches-remains an under-utilized resource. |
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His preternatural calm belies an ability to analyze a problem from all sides in a nanosecond, then produce a solution. |
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Top flight choreographers have weighed in to augment her preternatural talent for busting a move. |
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There is an automatism to him, a preternatural talent for responding exactly, and briskly, with what is expected. |
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Having recently met a young Englishman of preternatural charm and physique, I surmised that after a day in the country together, I had managed to engender his affections. |
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With an almost preternatural ability to hold up the ball and bring his team-mates into play, the muscular forward is not only virtually assured of a starting spot at the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa? |
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Although redeemed and sanctified through baptism, he still does not recover the preternatural gift of integrity, lost by our first parents, that maintains perfect control and order. |
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His force was the preternatural activity of a strong imagination, which, curbless and uncontrolled, bore him whithersoever it would. |
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Some talk of him as future presidential material. Mr Crist, a breezy charmer with pearly teeth and a preternatural tan, remains popular as governor. |
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The time of Septuagesima has its particular focus also: the weakness of man's nature after the Fall, at which he lost not only sanctifying grace, but also the preternatural gifts. |
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As a counterbalance to all the preternatural prodigiousness, let us not forget that it's not only the whippersnappers who have a monopoly of creative energy, adventure, and sheer boldness. |
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The Jedi Consular has a preternatural understanding of how the Force connects all things, and they draw on this knowledge to toss enemies of all sizes into the air, before hurling them to the ground. |
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Despite what one might have thought was a growing amount of evidence to the contrary, the prime minister's preternatural confidence in his own powers of persuasion is undiminished. |
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In Tuesday's debate, Newt Gingrich showed why he is a prevaricator with preternatural talent, finding new and creative ways to revive old and discredited lies. |
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The demonic legacy invests Merlin with a preternatural knowledge of the past and present, which is supplemented by God, who gives the boy a prophetic knowledge of the future. |
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Macbeth is like a record of a preternatural and tragical event. |
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Vansittart Smith, fixing his eyes upon the fellow's skin, was conscious of a sudden impression that there was something inhuman and preternatural about its appearance. |
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It is such life that will sufficiently sanctify an individual to be able to enter into conational relations with those preternatural forces in chthonian existence. |
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