When Colin casually tosses the seeds into a plot of earth near the prison cricket pitch, they miraculously bloom into double violets -- Colin, it seems, has "greenfingers," a gift for working with plants.
One was Antonio Lopez, a gangling longtime hip-hop dancer and the only company member with no formal dance training, who proved to be one of the group's catalysts and an audience-improvisation leader with a gift for working with children.
Hoping to hold the high ground against the purveyors of guts, gore and detailed campaign maps who fill the "History/ War" sections of American bookstores, he made the most of the fact that Halleck was an intellectual with a gift for staff work who saw hardly any combat.
Barnett, like Obama, is not a scientist, but knows a lot of good ones, and has a gift for communicating their work to a general audience.
Her health meant a performing career was no longer an option, so she turned her attention to teaching, believing she had always had a gift for it, having worked with Schnabel's students, many of whom were older than her.
He wrote his thesis on governmental use of third parties to monitor electronic communications and was awarded his doctorate in July 2012.But it would be wrong to characterise Dr Soghoian simply as an academic or an activist, because he has an unusual gift for working outside conventional institutional strictures.
As artistic director of the New World Symphony, a training orchestra in Miami, which he founded in 1988, Mr. Thomas has also shown a particular gift for working with young players.
"I have a gift for getting things to work with problem samples," Dr. Constable said.
An outstanding academic with a gift for experimentation, he also worked with Donald Campbell's team on the Bluebird car and boat projects.
