Yet whatever Mr Turner drifted into so easily had a knack of turning bad or getting complicated.
From the moment he was born in 1894 Huxley had a knack of turning up wherever history was being made.
He also has a knack of shaming others into following suit.
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Love em or hate em, Gawker mini-mogul Nick Denton (soon, I hear, to be the subject of a long New Yorker profile) does have a knack of knowing what readers want and serving it up to them.
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The scandal-plagued Berlusconi, who was recently sentenced to four years in prison for tax fraud but has a knack of successfully appealing against his convictions, epitomizes the dysfunctional nature of Italian politics, with its discredited leaders and unstable governments.
He also has a knack of picking up enemies, both great (George Pataki, the state governor, may spend more time supporting the presidential bid of George W. Bush) and small: Mr Giuliani has broken what is arguably the first commandment of authoritarian politicians by waging war on New York's taxi-drivers.
He had a great knack of getting the best out of all players irrespective of their age - a 19-year-old earning a fortune or a 36-year-old at the end of his career.
If your partner has a strange knack of being able to pick out all the right perfumes, this may not be a good sign at all.
Arntzen went on to restructure a number of shipping companies and run a fleet of ten repossessed ships himself, displaying a knack for getting agreements signed amid a swirl of conflicting shareholder and lender interests.
Arntzen went on to restructure a number of shipping companies and run a fleet of ten repo'd ships himself, displaying a knack for getting agreements signed amid a swirl of conflicting shareholder and lender interests.
While Anonymous is often characterized as a group of malicious cyber-terrorists, they struck me more as a group of earnest young protesters with a dark sense of humor and a brilliant knack for viral marketing.
On songs like this one, the band reveals a keen sense of melody and a knack for buoyant arrangements.
Even her adlibbed asides establish that she's deep inside the feeling of a song, a knack that makes her covers (of Jimmy Cliff's "Many Rivers to Cross" or the Hollies' "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother") particularly stirring.
"Lion Face Boy" is the first single from Seabear's sophomore album, We Built a Fire, and it's a perfect display of the band's knack for constructing mountains of instrumentation on a simple idea.
In terms of investment strategy, the best way to answer those questions is to find money managers with a knack for uncovering pockets of profitability and resilience, regardless of the overall economic climate.
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Richard Sands learned at the knee of his father, who had a knack for making good business out of ugly business.
In fact, the Inca were a bit like Mitt Romney's Bain Capital: They had a knack for taking control of long-established things and making them their own.
Relatives said she was popular and outgoing during high school and was on the drill team, and they said she had a knack for getting out of difficult situations.
According to Chris Chabris of the Centre for Collective Intelligence at MIT, a member of the Knack team, games have huge advantages over traditional recruitment tools, such as personality tests, which can easily be outwitted by an astute candidate.
On the contrary, I call it one of the greatest fruits of modern freedom, a freedom acquired through our relatively recent knack of forcing accountability upon the mighty.
Teams at the Large Hadron Collider must be developing a knack for producing tangible evidence of theoretical particles.
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The difference is that Philadelphia managed to avoid the soft underbelly that often lies below the big guns, thanks to their scouting department's knack for finding a host of unpolished gems.
Two, I had a knack for remembering what kind of packing material was best for which fragile object, and I immediately understood why it was better that personal-size bags of chips be torn vertically, while family-size bags be torn horizontally, and where the tabs should be located to al-low each sort of tearing.
Mr Stearns, an American former journalist and UN worker who has spent a decade following the conflict, speaks many of the local languages and has a knack for loosening tongues.
They have a knack for sorting through large amounts of information and opposing points of view to settle on a decision.
Looking back on my Wall Street career, I realize that what I liked most was winning new business for the firm, which of course requires a knack for selling.
So Hodgson, who has a knack for turning a ragtag roster of misfits into well-drilled overachievers by preaching fundamentals, may be a better fit for England than his record suggests.
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Yes, you'll need a 3D printer and a knack for programming to get most of these projects going, but you won't have to wait for someone to make them for you -- a big help when many ready-made VR displays are either in development or priced out of reach for the average person.
The funds here tend to have the virtue of consistency coupled with a knack for logging impressive long-term results.
Mastery of battlefield tactics and a knack for leadership are only prerequisites.
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