To give Mr. Willis another opportunity to exercise his talent for weary, manly stoicism?
Pop provided a deadpan mask for his ambition, behind which he could exercise his talent for almost subliminal nuances of sprightly form.
Vaughn has played irresponsible egotists and vicious creeps, but he's best as a harmless hustler — most notably in the independent comedy "Swingers," in which Jon Favreau's garrulous script allowed him to exercise his talent for arrogant patter.
It was through his friendship with Fran-->ois Mitterand, the late French president, in the mid-80's that Berge became head of the Opera de la Bastille, which allowed him to exercise his talents in new ways.
For example, one may think that in making a career decision, an acquaintance failed to give due consideration to what would most fully develop and exercise his talents.
In Paris, Chopin encountered artists and other distinguished figures, and found many opportunities to exercise his talents and achieve celebrity.
The most repressed man on earth, he leads a forlorn and shadowy life, and Edward Norton, exercising his talent for melancholy withdrawal and pained self-discipline, makes him a touching, haunted figure.
In his latest collection of stories, titled Tenth of December, George Saunders exercises his talent at pharmacology (Vivistif, Verbaluce, Veritalk) and psychoanalysis, rendering the inner secrets, dreams, and lives of the hapless and the unlucky in stories that stun, tickle, and stimulate, again and again.
With a placid and uneducated mistress He exercises his talents And the soil meets his distress.
to the syncopation of With a placid and uneducated mistress He exercises his talents And the soil meets his distress.
But the seeds of the better-known show are busting out all over in its predecessor, as is Mr. Larson's discovery of how to exercise his own talent.
