A decade ago Mr. Soong, a skilled politician with an unusual ability to connect with the public, was a close friend and political ally of Mr. Lee, helping him to consolidate his position as party chairman and Taiwan's president.
"A week later, he called again: 'Would you please send some shirts to Bruce Ratner?' A couple of weeks ago, I got a third call: 'Frank needs two in every color and every size.' " It was suggested to Gehry, who once had a cameo on "The Simpsons," that for a high-powered architect he had an unusual ability to take a joke.
He had "an unusual ability — a divine gift, I believe — of extraordinary eye and hand coordination".
He had a phenomenal eye for telling detail, an acute ear and an unusual ability to get to the truth of a situation.
Together, they convey the distinctive allure of an author who prided himself above all on his "finesses" and whose two salient traits — a severe reserve and a profound empathy — stemmed from an unusual ability, as Mann put it, to see "at least two sides to everything in life".
The 6-foot-9 Perkins has made 36.2percentt of his 3-point shots, an unusual ability for a frontcourt player.
But to that willingness, Ms. Hafner brings a remarkable honesty and an unusual ability to see herself clearly (even if she was blind to her own emotions when the year began).
I think he had a rare genius for teaching: an unusual ability to treat children as equals without becoming a soft touch.
As a result, the rabbi has an unusual ability to move easily between different worlds — secular and sacred, scientific and spiritual, earthly and divine.
Is Slade really as poor as is often suggested, or has his apparent artlessness evolved in order to mask his significant intelligence, and an unusual ability to turn a profit?
A bacterial cytotoxin SubAB has an unusual ability to specifically cleave GRP78 without affecting other proteins in the cell.
