Sentence examples for marginal talent from inspiring English sources

They also have avoided the outrageous spending spree that some teams have gone on for some marginal talent.

The Giants intend to sign Dorris, a graduate of Texas Tech who is considered a marginal talent but nevertheless performed effectively during the preseason.

With marginal talent, especially when compared with the Giants and a majority of N.F.L. teams, the Cowboys offered efficiency and resiliency in the face of a late-game Giants comeback.

And there is an imagined day in the life of Virginia Woolf herself, played by Nicole Kidman, when she began writing "Mrs. Dalloway" -- when she, more than half suspecting she was merely an eccentric and marginal talent, set down the opening lines of a book that will be read as long as books exist.

It's as if Layden never happened -- the ridiculous contracts for marginal talent (Clarence Weatherspoon, Howard Eisley), the drafting of foreign youngsters on stilts (Slavko Vranes, Maciej Lampe) when the roster needed an upgrade of athleticism and the one decisive pull of the trigger in four-plus years that exploded in Layden's hand with the pop of Antonio McDyess's surgically rebuilt knee.

Simon of course put through the insufferable perky girl with marginal talent.

For Leighton Rees, the world's first professional darts champion, his career revelation came -- as it must, by definition, for a master of any of life's marginal talents -- gradually, almost inadvertently.

He's one of rock's great enablers, as producer, writer, arranger – and with some of the undoubted but more marginal talents in music he has been the catalyst for their best work.

Against a club that gave major minutes to marginal talents such as Chris Crawford, Larry Robinson and Mottola, who on Tuesday became the first native of Finland to compete in a National Basketball Association game, the Knicks had several stars.

"Big men get paid," is a basketball truism, and the N.B.A. has long been haunted by the spectre of marginal talents being paid huge sums mostly because of their size.

He is a decent vocalist with a very limited range and marginal talents.