Police sources described Takahashi, whose last job was with a construction firm in Kawasaki, as an avid reader with a short temper and a clear gift for evasion.
Click here to watch After all, what could 1994's Tammy and the T-Rex possibly be, other than a clear sign that Paul Walker had a clear gift for the absurd?
Remarkable lives don't always make for remarkable cinema, but if any film-maker were to give Zamperini's a chance, it's not the green, humourless Jolie, who has a clear gift for choosing collaborators – cinematographer Roger Deakins, the usually electric Jack O'Connell – but can't marshal them for saccharine, amber-coloured toffee.
Some of the most compelling are the relatively realistic shots of people grouped in outdoor settings, reminders of Clouzot's gift for clear, fluid, emotionally resonant composition.
Perhaps those tears were… Franz Schubert could be the official song composer of Lincoln Center: the Viennese master's extraordinary gift for clear storytelling and hauntingly simple melody has inspired… Michael Flatley is retiring!
You notice it intensely, and his superb performance — including a burning "Mache dich, mein Herze, rein" ("Make thyself, my heart, now pure"), which, as they say, brings it all home — makes very clear Bach's unmatched gift for presenting both deep hardship and the possibility of transcendence.
It was a particularly clear example of Neubauten's gift for pummeling expectations into submission, as the musicians did with the metal from which they wring sweetness.
It was almost immediately clear that Lexi had a gift for riding, and by the time she was 6, Shawn was posting videos of her on YouTube.
Set to music by Steve Martland, the piece contains a solo for Nickemil Concepcion that sets forth his wonderfully gutsy way with movement and also his gift for making clear quick-shifting movement textures.
In time, however, it became clear that Knott had a better gift for wordplay, and a wider range of reference, than many of the bloggers on whose posts he commented.
The funnier elements of Bilbo's battle with Gollum beneath the Misty Mountains are also played up, and it's abundantly clear why an actor with a gift for such moments, Martin Freeman, was picked for the role.
