It was a new kind of hero in America, a common person with the uncommon gift of knowledge.

A woman with a sharp mind who is not afraid to use it is an uncommon gift.

"And then I got the idea," he added simply, "that she would not live like other people: that, for better or worse, she had uncommon gifts."

The clumsy Dr. Reddin is written for an actress with the uncommon gift of physical comedy.

To be at once earthy and ethereal is an uncommon gift.

After seeing the movie, a critic described Griffith as "a youthful actor of uncommon gifts."

Either that or the healer has an uncommon gift for judging recuperative powers.

For a man who called himself a survivor, he thought, he had an uncommon gift for complicat- ing his life.

He is a running back of uncommon gifts; he can find the hole that wasn't there a moment ago, and he can catch as well.

And both mark the debuts of writers blessed with an uncommon gift for language.