It must have been second nature to him, this veering attention.
Postseason dominance had been second nature for Lee, and even after the Game 1 wipeout, he has 41 strikeouts and only two walks since the end of the regular season.
A note of humility and empathy, such as was shown by the next witness, Gavyn Davies [the chairman of BBC's board of governors], would have been second nature to Mr Blair once.
Putin's attacking style must have been second nature to Gates from any spy-versus-spy handbook: when cornered, admit nothing, deny everything, go on the offensive.For America, in realpolitik terms, Russia as a secret-police state may not be such a terrible thing.
Eastwood is, and always has been, a great sketch artist for whom brisk, stylized restraint — a sort of opaque tightness within a frame of breezy looseness — has always been second nature.
For St Helens, creating rugby league history has always been second nature.
It has always been second nature for Mr. Allen to Mad-Lib a phrase while on autopilot ("a long dream in which Rodgers and Hart appeared at his window as parrots and simonized his car") without breaking a sweat.
With technology moving so fast and a whole generation growing up for whom having an avatar is second nature, virtual worlds have nowhere to go but up.
Wahlberg's armor may have been more literal but the idea is the same: "The way you carry yourself, the way you carry your weapon, the way you manipulate all your equipment, I had to have all those things be second nature," he said.
