And while it has a mental component, it is not a mystical ability.
More than any other long postseason, the Stanley Cup playoffs have this mystical ability to skew.
Favre, with his almost mystical ability to turn a game around, will be starting his 200th consecutive N.F.L. game.
De Waal has a mystical ability to so inhabit the long-gone moment as to seem to suspend inexorable history, personal and impersonal.
Eric Calhoun again: "The 2008 "Redeem Team" was remarkable partially because of Coach K's mystical ability to get his NBA stars to buy into his defense-first philosophy.
Fashion insiders have an almost mystical ability to hone in on The Look, The Subject, The Film, The Star, The Place.
The media are also enamored of the almost mystical ability of the Clintons to work their way out of tight jams, as they have done for 16 years at the national level.
Administration officials predicted that without Bin Laden's spiritual guidance — and his almost mystical ability to inspire followers by standing up to and evading American and allied efforts to hunt him down — Qaeda leaders' efforts to obtain nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, and to use them against the United States, will weaken.
Largely set in a theatrical boardinghouse populated by a collection of wittily defined showbiz types, the film is an early demonstration of Ford's mystical ability to conjure a full narrative out of what seems to be a series of comic asides, dramatic parentheses and anticlimaxes.
What Klein has belatedly learned is how unlikely such a Bargain really is; but the same logic tells us that any Grand Bargain that might somehow be struck, via Obama's mystical ability to mind-meld Star Trek and Star Wars or something, wouldn't last.
