Just as we no longer think that the assassination of Franz Ferdinand "caused" the first world war, perhaps we only imagined that unrepeatable meetings between supernatural talents shaped our music culture.
Ritz – eponym, fraudster, founder of some of the world's grandest grand hotels – was a talent shaped by war.
In 1987, when Mr. Schweitzer was chief financial officer, Renault hired a new chief designer, Patrick Le Quement, whose talent shaped the education of Louis Schweitzer -- and the transformation of Renault.
At the time, though, Mr. Singer, who seemed alternately confident and insecure, was not dwelling on how dependent those nearby studio executives were on his talents to shape a successful franchise.
You'll find the evidence in the biographies of the émigré talents who shaped the genre.
His future interests and talents were shaped and nurtured by his large, rumbustious, cultivated, polymathic Jewish family, evocatively described in his memoir.
"Legacy" publishing does best in the first category: it commands the advances needed for research, the editing talent to shape the writing and the marketing muscle to distribute those doorstop biographies on Father's Day.
"Your decisions allocating your personal time, energy, and talent ultimately shape your life's strategy".
How it buys the talents and shapes the careers it needs, so that even a general crisis brings only a second layer of bribed servants, and the medicine is administered by doctors whose judgment is bought and paid for.
Chubby Chandler confided upon recruiting Willett to his International Sports Management stable that the player was better than he had realised, with a natural talent for shaping a multitude of shots.
