ReprintsAngela Merkel, the German chancellor, was quick to agree, even though she once more confirmed her talent for winning elections.
His dolorous playing on the Beatles' Michelle, and bleak lyricism on My Man's Gone Now confirmed a talent coming to maturity.
ITV has confirmed the talent show will launch on August 31 with an 80-minute edition featuring a batch of auditionees, starting at 8pm.
Sofia Coppola's romantic comedy Lost in Translation - the follow-up to her affecting debut The Virgin Suicides - confirmed her talent in quietly evoking powerful moods with acute observation.
Afterwards he wrote Ingenious Pain, a book that confirmed his talent when it won the Impac prize, one of the world's biggest literary awards in financial terms, triumphing over a shortlist including books by Don DeLillo, Ian McEwan, Cynthia Ozick and Haruki Murakami.
Spaceport.io has just announced that part of its team, but not its technology, is moving to Facebook, and the social network has confirmed the talent deal to me.
His masterstroke of matching Palmer with Lowell George and the Meters for Sneakin' Sally Through the Alley, the album that out-funked Little Feat, confirmed his talents behind the mixing desk.
For those who follow playwrights, though, there's a pleasure in seeing two of the younger English dramatists whose work we have observed in recent years being confirmed as talents who seem likely to figure in dramatic histories of the early 21st century in the way that Pinter, Stoppard, Churchill, Ayckbourn and Hare are cited in studies of the previous period.
And after two seasons of chasing after their potential, Agassi's most obvious successors have spent the year confirming their talent.
I could recite his Monty Python 'Cheese Sketch' verbatim [Daily Mirror veterans will wearily confirm this talent continued into my adult, editing years…] and Basil Fawlty remains the single funniest character ever created on British television," he wrote.
