Sentence examples for recognised talent from inspiring English sources

This is a wonderful performance, and a reminder that Bowie recognised talent wherever it was to be found, not just among the people publicly anointed as cool.

Humperdinck's finish in penultimate place, saved from the basement only by Norway, was an undeserved humiliation for a likeable showbiz trouper and will surely make recognised talent even warier in future years of accepting the poisoned microphone.

When Conor Cruise O'Brien (who died in Dublin last week, aged 91) arrived in Ghana in 1962 to become vice-chancellor of the University of Ghana, Legon, the place was brimming over with internationally recognised talent.

His life is proof that prodigious, widely recognised talent isn't enough to secure reputation: ass-kissing and fib-telling, flattery and tongue-biting are often required to make careers.

Born not only recognised talent to work with him, but he "let his superstars stretch past him; to those less gifted, he patiently handed out respectable but doable assignments".

People who can't even recognise talent.

"We recognise talent when we see it".

I asked David about his ability to recognise talent.

There is perhaps an argument that parents from such backgrounds are better at recognising talent and so put their children forward for the relevant opportunities.

"He certainly knew food (and definitely knew wine) but his genius was in seeing the big picture, all the parts of the restaurant experience that made it memorable; and of course in recognising talent.

He was a classic impresario, with the ability to recognise talent and to draw it out of the most unlikely people, but he could also be very dismissive – if not downright cruel.