"keen talent" is an acceptable phrase in written English.
It is usually used to refer to a person with a natural ability for something, such as an artistic or athletic skill. For example, "She is a keen talent who achieved her dreams of becoming a professional dancer at the age of 16."
Over a lifetime in the limelight, Chelsea has shown a pretty keen talent for not making news.
West, the keen talent evaluator and executive who orchestrated the trade that brought a teenaged Kobe Bryant to the Los Angeles Lakers, said during last season's playoffs that LeBron James had better skills as a player than Bryant did.
Interestingly, they will not include Gene Michael, a Yankees vice president and keen talent evaluator, who is considered the executive chiefly responsible for transforming the Yankees from a dismal team in the early 1990's into a perennial contender.
Not only is she prolific, having been the chief sponsor of 56 bills and amendments in the last Congress, but she also has a keen talent for generating publicity -- like the time she gave a speech on the floor of the House, covered from head to toe in a blue burqa, to protest the treatment of women in Afghanistan by the Taliban.
McWilliams, who had obtained a copy of the Lynch Report, suspected Thompson, with his keen talent for sniffing out stories that fell beneath the radar of more conventional journalists, might be an ideal candidate to get the real dirt on the motorcycle club, to tell the story from the Angels' point of view, rather than Lynch's.
ARCHIE AND SINK Men raised from infancy with horses could identify salient differences with a glance, but some had a keener talent for understanding equine temperament than others.
James Wakefield, the director of the Council of the Inns of Court, says: "Clearly the public bar has come under financial pressure in terms of pupillage fees, and we are keen that talent keeps entering these areas so that applicants are not discouraged".
Or, to put it slightly differently, how long before someone quietly whispers in the ears of the grand fromages at Stade, Brive and Toulon that they might be better off signing some mustard-keen homegrown talent rather than questionable, over-priced English beef.
As a coaching duo, he and West have also developed consistent reputations as keen-eyed talent-spotters.
Odhiambo was a keen spotter of talent, but also wary of brain-drain.
If Jones becomes a Pro Bowler, Colbert will once again be praised for having a keen eye for talent.
