He could sing, dance and act, and beyond those fairly common gifts, when you add the distinctive voice, faultless instinct for wording, genius wit, hilarious physical movement, rich supply of expressions and physical "takes" — and the list goes on — it arguably adds up to the most supremely gifted comedian of our time.
Stand 'em alone - make no reference to the Rat Pack - and you have some pretty fair actors, under the tutelage of a gifted director, doing fairly silly stuff that, for some reason, audiences have enjoyed more than Ali or Vanilla Sky or The Majestic.
Never mind the impatient tone, which seemed to suggest, "It's about time," or that this was a fairly minor milestone for one of the most gifted players of all time.
Seemingly understanding that this was an important match for his country, the wayward one was fairly immobile and played it safe - until he gifted Spain a goal.
Community where traditionally, stories were told and passed along through music, a tool she found fairly easy to weld in terms of her own, gifted voice, though an almost crippling sense of shyness stunted her at first.
Pressel, a 13-year-old who ties her blond hair into a ponytail when she golfs, wears braces and is in the seventh grade gifted program at Omni Middle School here, was living a fairly normal life until this month.
Quinn has been placed in a gifted program, and Sergeant Joplin said he had been treated fairly in the military promotion system.
There are many other similarly gifted musicians at churches around the city; they exemplify a fairly large population for whom musical life is not a pursuit of international fame but almost a kind of grassroots activism, with aesthetic rather than political transformation as the goal.
The author may be an ultraintellectual polymath, but he steers a fairly accessible narrative ship in this adventure about a 12th-century Italian peasant gifted in learning languages, telling lies and putting himself in the middle of genuine historical situations.
It's a little bit smart (there's a song about Schadenfreude), fairly shrewd and self-parodying ('Evellyone's a rittle bit lacist' chirps the gifted Japanese singer Ann Harada), constantly perky, sometimes funny and basically mushy.
