Later, he began coming up with his own melodies, and Mr. Jaffee, sensing a talent, recorded one of his ballads.
Mr. Leone, sensing Olympic talent (not in time for Beijing in 2008; maybe later), wants to take a chance on Andre.
In that sense, talent is little more than personality in the right place.
She can also vouch for his "emotional intelligence," "capacious mind," "elephantine memory," "preternatural aesthetic sense," "talent as a consummate diplomat," and "independent spirit".
She had advised Monica Seles and Goran Ivanisevic in their junior years and knew — no, sensed — exceptional talent and determination when it was in front of her.
One of the schools sensed his talent with people and hired him as a teacher, paying him 360 rupees a month.
However, walking through a San Francisco hotel with several PR people to the interview, I am slow to notice that Farmiga, in flat-heeled sandals and anonymous summer dress, is walking right next to me: I sense a talent for hiding in plain sight.
He said he struggled to think of any emerging musician with individual talent, sensing that some are more interested in the financial rewards.
This exemplifies the problem baseball has created: lots of black talent, sensing lack of opportunity, automatically goes elsewhere.
Mr. Redleaf, who collected two mathematics degrees in three years at Yale, says Mr. Cohen's talent for sensing changes in trading volumes — "reading the tape," in Wall Street parlance — was "supernatural".
