Most came in revivals, tellingly, and it now seems possible, if not probable, that star casting in musical revivals will become the norm on Broadway, making it less likely that gifted singing actors will be given the chance at the great roles in the canon.
Tells about the likely occupations for gifted students based on their test scores… Writer describes the inability of students on the engineering course to meet girls and the presence of A.D.H.D. among some of the campers.
In a Hollywood melodrama, Ibrahim would most likely be a spiritually gifted black man.
Another study showed that black students are less likely to be recommended for gifted programs when they are taught by non-black teachers.
Stegner can be a frustratingly gifted writer, as likely to express an elegant idea as an overly ornate one: Dru "was thinking about the big easy splendor of meeting and falling in love, and then about the small quiet hidden things that revealed themselves with time".
"Rachmaninoff, far from being clinically depressed, was merely (and understandably) low after the First Symphony debacle," Mr. Norris writes, "and it is most likely that Dahl, as a gifted amateur musician and a man of culture, simply conversed with him on subjects of music and art and gradually rebuilt his confidence".
Parents are more likely to buy (and get gifted) physical picture books and young adult novels rather than e-books as presents, and so kids often build up libraries of these.
I remember, years ago, seeing online reactions to a study reporting that teenagers in gifted programs were likely to quickly drop things they weren't immediately good at, the theory being that they feared losing their gifted designation, and that this instinct persisted into adulthood.
According to the district's data, black and Latino students are the least likely to be labeled as gifted.
When we think about where seafood comes from -- assuming we think about it at all -- we are likely to envision massive, technologically gifted boats plying huge seas in terrible weather, with gigantic paydays as their reward.
