Sentence examples for moderate talent from inspiring English sources

A banker with character but moderate talent can go a long way; a talented banker without character is a public menace," he said.

And what if a child has only moderate talent for her particular passion?

There's an awful flat self-knowledge in her, a cruel estimate of her own moderate talent.

At Elaine's last Wednesday night, the news staff shared a table at mid room amid a swirl of expensive suits, moderate talent and cheap cologne.

popular American poet of moderate talent who nonetheless became a major figure in literary and cultural circles of 19th- and early 20th-century San Francisco.

How can someone of moderate talent be presumptuous enough to hustle a real, accomplished icon of the preceding generation?

A person of moderate talents and willpower, he nevertheless exerted a strong influence on the events of his time by his strict and uncompromising religious policy.

After leading Lincoln Way East to Illinois's big-school state championship as a senior, Kropp was practically unrecruited — concerns about his size (barely six feet) and arm strength (moderate) overshadowed his talents.

He frequently moderates talks with film talent for the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, the Directors Guild of America, the Screen Actors Guild, AOL Build and the Apple Store.

Instead, we now have competing books about a girl who seems considerably duller than her legendary successor, and a man whose personal assessment of himself as a man of "moderate pretensions" and "mediocratic talents" sounds fair enough.

■ You dream of fame and have achieved moderate success on a TV talent contest.