Because the four parts are more equally written by both Smetana and Schnittke, the Tokyo's original character, especially its talent for clean, clear separations of inner voices, had a chance to make itself known.
Büchner's talent for clinical, clear-eyed observation gave him a privileged view of the rise of the citizen and the fall of the ancien régime.
When "crispy red curry rice salad" turned out to be a less-spicy Thai pork larb tricked out with fragments of curried rice cooked into a crust, they'd nod their heads over Ms. Cohen's talent for bright, clear flavors instead of quibbling.
Meanwhile, his talent for drawing was so clear that his high school art teacher suggested he think hard about making art his life.
It's when we turn to Winter in Madrid, Sansom's taut second novel, that his talent for period detail becomes clear.
Paying attention to tiny, vital details — like a newly undead Bart disgustedly snipping the undertaker's thread from his sewn-shut lips — Mr. Prior (a former Appalachian miner with a clear talent for visual effects) constantly emphasizes Bart's essentially unaltered decency.
Oz has, besides the take-charge confidence and acuity of a surgeon, a talent for making complex ideas clear and simple.
Her unmatched juxtaposing of words and ideas, her blend of humor and sadness, her penchant for realism but talent for abstraction, is still clear and striking.
His talent is clear, for instance, at age 5 when he started using purposeful vertical strokes to draw people, and at 10 when he began to experiment more with colour.
Her talent for conscription, however, is very clear.
Such relentless high drama in the hands of huge forces like these could just as easily have run off the tracks, but this is a composer with a singular talent for inflecting words, making them clear and finding just the right orchestral color for the emotion of the moment.
