His collections demonstrated a skill for playing off classic American sportswear ideas, changing them slightly by pumping up the color, modernizing traditional coat shapes with textures like a popcorn knit instead of a flat wool melton, or covering a Fair Isle knit sweater in beads.
Mr. Sandler, who has developed a skill for playing weary sanity, has also polished his ability for underplaying surprise; evidence comes in a dry and choice line delivery about the bizarre lingerie of a self-hating beauty played in a cameo by Heather Graham.
Perhaps best known as the lovable but curmudgeonly Dr. Harold Abbott in the Warner Brothers/Greg Berlanti hit, Everwood, Tom has an impressive resume of both leading and character roles, with a particular skill for playing the historical depth and nuance of period pieces (his first major TV role was Eliot Ness in the 1993-1994 Paramount series, The Untouchables).
Reilly's skill for playing hopeless optimists was utilised by Anderson with heartbreaking success in the Oscar-nominated 1999 ensemble drama.
This result was further investigated in a complementary study [47], showing a generally high visuo-motor ability among subjects and the dominance of vision on audition in targeting visual and audio targets: the subjects rely considerably on visuo-motor skills for playing Cantor Digitalis.
Wikipedia also lists the "required skills" for playing beer pong.
Playing chamber music calls for musical, social and communicative skills that are somewhat different from skills for playing solo or symphonic music.
But while she speaks thoughtfully about the technical skills required for playing a ghost in a blockbuster ("It's almost maths: remembering every move exactly, what with the green screen and everything. It's great discipline"), there's a tenderness when she talks about the intimacy and spontaneity of small films.
"Clearly, practice will increase many skills necessary for playing an instrument (e.g., handling of the instrument, fine motor skills etc)., and is necessary to become a good player," Mosey said.
Timing and opportunities available due to outside preconditions - such as having the free time to practice a skill for 10,000 hours - play as large a role in most entrepreneurial success stories as innate talent does, according to Gladwell.
Murray, his brother, Jamie, and mother, Judy, were at the school for the launch of Set4Sport, a programme created by Judy which shows parents ways they can play with their children that develop the skills required for playing sport.
