Sentence examples for polished talent from inspiring English sources

Although of only average height and lacking an orator's booming voice, Mr. Branch, who did not use his given first name of William, was described as having the commanding presence of a leader and highly polished talent as a storyteller and raconteur.

Although his age might be what initially grabs your attention, it's on tracks like the soulful stand-out "Ella" where his polished talent shines.

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Self-educated, he was the first idiomatically Polish talent and a widely read writer of his time.

Much is made of the South African roots of batsman Jonathan Trott, whose unbeaten 168 drove home England's early advantage, but it has been his time with the English county Warwickshire that has polished those talents.

Aubrey was a self-effacing man, who saw himself as a "whetstone" for others to polish their talents on; he had a gift for friendship and never hogged the limelight, and, as Ruth Scurr notes in her introduction, "he would all but vanish in a conventional autobiography, crowded out by his friends, acquaintances and their multitudinous interests".

One just needs to tap into and discover these creative abilities and help themselves to polish these talents.

For their old friend Judy Holliday, they polished their particular comic talents -- always their strong suit -- added some poignancy and wrote such memorable songs as "The Party's Over," "I'm Going Back" and "It's a Perfect Relationship".

But Lemaitre has required the help of someone else to polish his raw talent.

Hoping players could polish their own talent didn't work last season, so the key becomes scheming ways to hide weaknesses.

Once you're in the N.F.L., as Cam Newton will discover, it's all about how willing you are to work hard enough to polish the raw talent that got you there.