But on good days I'm able to see how the peculiar skills of a writer overlap with the peculiar skills of a mother: we work so hard — we must — to notice, to understand, to dig deep, to know.
As soon as the Latin countries came into the game at the international level, however, the game itself began to change radically, and tactics and teamwork, blending together the peculiar skills of individual players, became the rule.
This series includes, in addition to "Ran" and the terrific Kobayashis, four more movies by Mr. Kurosawa, two by Mr. Naruse, one apiece by Hiroshi Teshigahara and Keisuke Kinoshita and three by Kon Ichikawa, who may be the director who used Mr. Nakadai's peculiar skills in the most interesting and varied ways.
Converting something horrible into something exhilarating and beautiful is a peculiar human skill.
But to our credit, and perhaps thanks in part to our peculiar professional skills, we succeeded beyond expectation.
Those managers have developed skills peculiar to G.E. or their industry, he said, and "it's unclear that you can transfer those skills to other companies successfully".
Stopping Faulk, Fassel said, is more delicate and demands a peculiar combination of skills for a football player: aggression and discipline.
Women tend to have that peculiar mix of skills you need to represent artists, a role that combines that of curator, entrepreneur and nanny.
In response, they could have used their peculiar New York skills to deal with the creeping and crawling terrors of the great outdoors — and the premise would have worked out in a way that was both scary and funny.
Mr. Neff, he said, through a peculiar confluence of skills and singlemindedness, has joined a small but distinctive class of artists who, in isolation, have created works that resonate with a broader audience.
