Sentence examples for slight talent from inspiring English sources

All these glib ideas that were thrown like bombs by Damien Hirst 25 years ago and popularised by the Turner prize have made it possible for Perry to turn an incredibly slight talent into national stardom.

Professor Rosen concluded that someone with even a slight talent advantage over a competitor could command a much higher salary by dint of the fact that his or her work reached a broader audience.

"I'll take a slight talent and then add the skill to it and can make it look magnificent, you know?" Smith also discussed his latest film, Concussion, in which he plays the real-life Nigerian-born forensic neuropathologist Bennet Omalu, who takes on the National Football League for covering up evidence that concussions can cause football players long-term harm.

The duo selected RNA molecules that showed even a slight talent for catalyzing the formation of nucleotides from precursor molecules.

Chances are, they won't have the slightest talent.

Bard, who played with Cora in Cleveland and in Boston, said: "Sometimes a guy like Alex, who's been a backup for a while, gets a little bit slighted on his talent, but he is a tremendous infielder.

"Up All Night," starring Christina Applegate and Will Arnett, followed and performed well, retaining 10.9 million viewers with a very slight drop from "Talent" in the advertiser-beloved 18-to-49 18-to-49 18-to-49

And he stated that he "wish[es] no slight to the talents of Winehouse, Duffy, Lana Del Rey, and Adele".

Here she will lead a group consisting of the same musicians as on her new album, "The Slightest Shift" (Fresh Sound/New Talent): Tony Malaby on tenor saxophone, Eivind Opsvik on bass and Jeff Davis on drums.

Taking its title from the line "If music be the food of love, play on" in Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night," this thoroughly entertaining one-ring show shines a well-deserved spotlight on the music essential to the spectacle while never for a moment slighting the traditional talents of circus art.

He related the parable of the talents, told with slight variations in Matthew and Luke.