Mr. Elkins's multifaceted way with popular dancing is another of his singular gifts.
Mostly, though, there are Mr. Stoppard's grandly eclectic obsessions and his singular gifts as a playwright.
It's easy to imagine his singular gifts finding an outlet in the microbudget modes that have recently enabled many independent filmmakers with presumptively uncommercial ideas to get their work done and even to launch careers in the direction of the mainstream.
While Ms. McDonald is a more than capable actor, she is a one-of-a-kind musical supertalent whose temporary sabbatical robbed the world of her singular gift at a moment when her voice was in its prime.
While Ms. McDonald is a more than capable actor, she is a one-of-a-kind musical super-talent whose temporary sabbatical robbed the world of her singular gift at a moment when her voice was in its prime.
The laserlike focus of the young Tiger Woods was a singular gift, and his practice routine with his father may be replicable, if at all, once in a generation.
The gospel church, the pop public, the city of Detroit: The "Queen of Soul" was part of them all, but they didn't define her singular gifts.
Last week, the flat, celebrity-driven Some Girls proved that his plays need the lightest of directorial touches: anything more obvious and his shocks look mechanical, so that LaBute's singular gift, of simultaneously taunting and implicating his audience, disappears.
By Ben McGrath Rogers's singular gift may have been his ability to read the anxieties of others, and offer a suitable version of himself to fit the situation.
That's Mr. Wilson's singular gift as a writer, and why his plays appear to have almost a novelistic sweep.
