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Not being a Freud fan, this viewer could do with less of the deliberate disfigurement of faces and hands that cross the line between frank appraisal and grotesqueness, but Mr. Pittman has an evident gift for composition.

In fact, I can't recall her performing in anything that so much brings out her evident gift for playfulness — she likes using her lithe 5'10" to spring and pounce and swoop and lollygag.

Mr. Phillips is a secret sophisticate, often going to great lengths to mask his evident gift.

It has been a long time since his gift for comedy -- evident in the first "Star Wars" and Indiana Jones pictures, and also in Mike Nichols's "Working Girl" -- has peeked out from behind that clenched, morose action-hero face.

His gift for candor, so evident as a whistle-blower, serves him well as a memoirist.

His gift for design is evident in modernistic creations like "School Days (Alphabet)," a 1908 cover design for Collier's magazine.

In this frothy, youthful comedy, Rossini experiments with the comic gift for mistaken identities evident in his later opera "Il Barbiere di Siviglia".

That Anne had a gift for storytelling was evident from the diary she kept during two years in hiding with her family in Amsterdam.

A former choirboy, Mr. Muhly has demonstrated a particular gift for choral writing, evident in the striking ensemble number that opens "Dark Sisters".

His evident engagement with his material, his gift for lucid exposition of the most complex ideas, together with his utterly unstuffy approachability and human warmth made him a hugely admired teacher across an astonishing range of subjects.

And although his film characters might not smile much, Owen's gift for humour became evident when he appeared two years ago in the Ricky Gervais sitcom Extras, caricaturing himself as an egocentric movie star who refused to sleep with a prostitute because the actress was too ugly.