Sentence examples for without the talent from inspiring English sources

"It's like 'Ulysses,' except without the talent".

(Tolstoy's wife, Sonia, told Tolstoy that Levin was "you, without the talent").

Without the talent, there were no fans to pay for food and parking.

BBC3 is nothing without the talent it works with, both on and off screen.

Most of his allies and imitators are cavemen without the talent: try listening to Sean Hannity of an afternoon.

Similarly, Hong Kong needs to recognise that it has the sky-high cost base of Silicon Valley without the talent to match.

The world of children's books would be an infinitely greyer place without the talents of writer and illustrator Lauren Child and her brilliant creation Clarice Bean.

The B Street Band would not exist without the talents of Bruce and our E Street brothers".

Campaign for a real German national team!" It was specifically aimed at humiliating black German player Patrick Owomoyela, but if they were to exclude everyone other than pure-bred Germans, they'd currently be without the talents of Mesut Özil, Sami Khedira, Jerome Boateng, Shkodran Mustafi, Lukas Podolski and Germany's all-time top scorer, Miroslav Klose.

The value now attached to money and fame overriding everything else, and the sense of entitlement that many of the young have without necessarily the talent, is a lethal combination.

Prospects: Can be expected to provide tough resistance to the big boys without having the talent to seriously inconvenience them.