Sentence examples for minor talent from inspiring English sources

His was a minor talent, little known outside the design cognoscenti, but in its way brilliant.

Of course, we are to understand, Wordsworth himself has only a minor talent.

Overpraised by Modernist critics, who saw him as the sole great poet of the era, he was in fact an important minor talent and an ingenious technical innovator.

Those who would seek to diminish Duchamp — to argue that he was essentially a minor talent who found an ingenious way to disguise the fact, which has proved appealing to many a minor talent since — must come to terms with the sheer originality of his thought.

Emmy's daughter Elisabeth fought her way through university to become a lawyer, then escaped Vienna to study further before a marriage to a Dutch businessman; son Iggie, in pursuit of a minor talent for couture, and a major discovery about his sexuality, slipped away to Paris, then America.

He summed up his position succinctly in "Awopbop": "What does third-rate Art have on Superpop?" He then went on to pan Dylan ("a minor talent with a major gift for self-hype"), to savage the "White Album" in The New York Times ("boring almost beyond belief"), to liken the spread of hippie culture into the suburban middle class to Pepsi — fizzy, bland, second-rate.

Sometimes I flatter myself that this is a talent, and although it is admittedly one of the minor talents, it is perhaps also the sole talent I possess.

"A tangle of recklessly minor talents," Gage can't figure out how to fix the generator or get past the mudslides on the roads around them.

It's a landmark, by a titan of sculpture, one of the last great modernists in an age of minor talents, mad money and so much meaningless art.

Set one of these minor talents alongside a Jane Austen or a Joseph Conrad, and it is clear we live in mediocre cultural times.

Even when they die famous, female artists are often belittled as minor talents overpromoted by feminists, as is often said of O'Keeffe, Kahlo and the 17th century visionary Artemisia Gentileschi.