Sentence examples for knack for casting from inspiring English sources

He had a knack for casting ascendant stars (Vanessa Redgrave, Glenda Jackson), and he sought out talented collaborators.

Snyder may not have been the right director to shepherd the whole DC Comics brand, but he A) his movies looked great and B) he had a knack for casting the core superheroes.

"Breaking Bad" creator Vince Gilligan seems to have a knack for casting the law enforcement types.

Polanski has a knack for casting women who are nervously exciting (Faye Dunaway in Chinatown is a blinking, twitching mess), and therefore dangerous to desire.

The schematic script and clunky pacing of "Peeples" notwithstanding, Chism clearly has a knack for casting and humanistic stories.

Among Michael Grandage's many gifts as a director of Shakespeare — an educated scenic eye, a knack for casting and for pacing — the greatest is his clarity.

Novels have a knack for speaking and casting doubt simultaneously, for being clearly stated and yet hard to pin down, possessing meanings that slip away or evaporate when you try to express them in the language of exposition or argument.

Ikon Gallery, Wed to 12 Jul RC Cornelia Parker has a knack for personalising seismic events, casting them in a fresh light in the process.

She swiftly showed a knack for politics, as she cast complex financial regulations as homely and all-American.

And then there is his last success, Gosford Park, which brilliantly revived his happy knack for working with large casts by reaching into the unfamiliar patrician world of the English country-house party, perhaps indirectly inspired by Jean Renoir's Rules of the Game.

Lamorne Morris plays roommate Winston on New Girl, and our guest hosts Lance Bass and Alison Haislip want all the dirt about the Nick/Jess relationship, the cast's knack for inventing drinking games and what Zooey Deschanel's bangs are like in real life.