At the time, he could not read a single musical note and his experience as a singer amounted to a few bravado karaoke performances, which, though highly commended by his friends, gave no clue to an extraordinary talent lying dormant within.
Does it make tennis more popular – or does it tend to suppress and hinder an enormous amount of tennis talent lying dormant in the bodies of young men and women whose names are not in the social register?" That victory in 1919 heralded the international arrival of the most influential tennis player of all time.
A bland union of wills and ideas led to totalitarianism; a perfect Arcadia would reduce human talents to a dormant state.
These dormant talents are often a surprise when they emerge, typically in dire circumstances or when someone we love is in need, but you don't have to wait for a life-or-death situation to key into this heroic spirit within you.
Why not use this dormant talent to push the project a step further?
The story had me envisioning, as Krauss puts it, "the tremendous physical talent that lay dormant in him".
Elsewhere, Alicia Keys offers sisters-together assistance that helps Whitney re-connect with her dormant talent on the jaunty single "Million Dollar Bill".
In fact, it was strange and almost frustrating to see the dancer in street clothes and brown house slippers, moving so practically through his apartment, with little or no sign of the tremendous physical talent that lay dormant in him, and I found myself craving some break in this pragmatic façade, a leap or turn, some explosion of his true energy.
Many innate inclinations, talents, artistic endowments remain dormant.
Our talents have been lying dormant for years because we haven't put them to good use.
