For their wayward talent lacked inspiration, and, half asleep, they embraced the choice aesthetics of the past.
To cast him as an underappreciated wonder boy ignores the verdicts of all those coaches who thought his talent lacked direction.
An ideal winner would be a cross between these two: Hamilton provides the provocation that Marten's goody two-shoes talent lacks.
Jack Kerouac, "a large talent," lacked "discipline, intelligence, honesty and a sense of the novel" and was "as pretentious as a rich whore, as sentimental as a lollypop," and James Baldwin was "too charming a writer to be major".
Dulness is lack of imagination, lack of talent, lack of taste.
Whether it is injuries, youth, new coaches, lack of talent, lack of depth or parity, those who would diminish or dismiss the A.C.C. may need to reconsider down the road.
In the fickle world of scouting and drafting, several factors could have led to the drop off: lack of talent, lack of development and, in some cases, lack of luck.
The effort is there, but the talent is lacking.
– Third, robotics talent is lacking Funded startups often resort to in-house training.
She recognizes, in retrospect, that Russell's musical talent is lacking, his lyrics schmaltzy, his philosophizing equally so.
