Tóibín's skill lies in imagining Mary's embittered perplexity without shutting the door on the story's miraculous element.
In this regard, cooking is like music, but easier: the basic skills are not difficult to attain, and the creativity comes not in reinventing them but in imagining new ways in which to combine them.
But when they were first asked to put themselves in her shoes modeling Murray's newfound skill "to imagine how she felt"—they usually said yes.
Now in his 80s, Matheson's a writer who just has that special knack, the deft skill to imagine terrifying scenarios on any scale, small or large, and give them chilling plausibility.
So, last August, I wrote a column quoting Andreas Schleicher — who runs the global exam that compares how 15-year-olds in public schools around the world do in applied reading, math and science skills — as saying imagine, in a few years, that you could sign on to a Web site and see how your school compares with a similar school anywhere in the world.
These skills are essential in the advanced manufacturing world and skills needed to imagine the future.
"It uses the same skills of imagining people in spaces in different scenarios".
Safranski has previously honed his analytic skills in a richly imagined biography of Schopenhauer and a dispassionate study of Heidegger.
"I thought it would be cool to own an island, and I knew I could run it and be able to pay for my play" says Storey, who has picked up skills he never imagined learning in a game.
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And something else happened: They developed skills they never imagined.
