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Example sentences for "talent"

Lexicographically close words:
talcum; tald; tale; talebearer; talem; talented; talents; tales; talesman; talesmen
  1. My most earnest prayer to God has been that I may do some good to compensate in some measure for the talent which he gave me, and which I have so sadly wasted.

  2. It also bore the usual motto of that prince, talent de bien faire.

  3. The second prize was a fat ox, and the third one half of a talent of gold.

  4. Thy praise shall not be spoken for nothing," said Achilles, smiling, and he gave him one half of a talent of gold as a reward for his good words.

  5. When Wallace arrived he applied his talent and acquired science to the wall-safe, and finally swung outward the little steel-door.

  6. Nevertheless, the Swiss has the talent of swiftly substracting from a confusion of ideas one point of illumination: there was a quality to the stranger's tone that decided him favorably.

  7. I bare my head before the immense ability of it--before the high intensity with which your talent keeps itself interesting and which has made me absorb the so full-bodied thing in deep and prolonged gustatory draughts.

  8. He is the cleverest idiot and the most pernicious talent imaginable, and I await to see if he won't somehow swing--!

  9. I've just been reading Compton Mackenzie's Sinister Street and finding in it an unexpected amount of talent and life.

  10. I take anything I take at all; and I have given myself still further up to the pleasure, quite to the emotion, of intercourse with a young talent that really moves one to hold it to an account.

  11. Without doubt, also, she consecrated to God a talent acquired for worldly ends; and in the meetings of the faithful in the catacombs she must have taken part in the psalms and canticles.

  12. WORLD: You have a talent for evoking thought.

  13. She was one of those soft creatures who require to be petted, and have a talent for being abused.

  14. Calderon's talent was nothing if not dramatic; for even his lyrics, and especially his Soldier of Liberty, are characterized by a personal fire and animation.

  15. You can see that she has some talent and ambition, and that she has read some, though she is absurdly ignorant of the ways of the world.

  16. Otherwise it is not elevating; and what it makes you admire chiefly is the talent which imitates, not the genius which sees.

  17. I believe that genius is insight, talent only outsight.

  18. It was not that he showed lack of judgment merely by the persecution of a rare talent, but by failing to see that the rare talent was pointing out truths very valuable to his own safety.

  19. This is a talent of which I can see no signs among the hostesses who are so cried up.

  20. But as he proceeds further in his work, his talent becoming duller--his extravagancies are worse sustained and scarcely ever original.

  21. The name had been applied two centuries before to men of talent generally, especially to writers, but now it referred exclusively to such as were humorous in conversation.

  22. But every observation containing a contradiction does not show dulness of apprehension, but often talent and ingenuity.

  23. The humorous talent possessed by the Dean made him a great acquisition in society, and, as it appears, somewhat too fascinating to the fair sex.

  24. But the taste for such conceits is irrevocably gone, and every attempt to revive it, even when recommended by such ingenuity and talent as that of Owen Meredith, only tends to prove the fact more incontestably.

  25. But the good Doctor with all his learning and intellectual endowments was not so pleasant a companion as Sterne, and, although sometimes sarcastic, had none of his talent for humour.

  26. Such ingenuity seems misplaced, we see more absurdity than talent in representing a sheep as talking to a wolf.

  27. He probably had recourse to this kind of argument, because he felt that he was worsted by his adversary in wordy warfare, having little talent in satire.

  28. Moreover, the age was one in which society was less varied than it is now in its elements and interests; when men of talent were more prominent, and it was easier to command an audience.

  29. Thackeray speaks of a young man who possessed every qualification for success--except talent and industry.

  30. Towards the end of his career, he happily turned his talent for disguises and fictions into a quieter and more profitable direction.

  31. Other singers have more or less talent and feeling, more or less compass of voice, facility, or agility; but these three women possess genius, and stamp on every thing they do their own individual character.

  32. One of the justest of judges; His invaluable 'talent of silence.

  33. The world had always a talent of that sort, better or worse.

  34. Shall we say then, The world has retrograded in its talent of apportioning wages to work, in late days?

  35. The 'talent of silence' is our fundamental one.

  36. To us, as already hinted, the Lord Abbot's eloquence is less admirable than his ineloquence, his great invaluable 'talent of silence!

  37. Bobus, you are in a vicious circle, rounder than one of your own sausages; and will never vote for or promote any talent, except what talent or sham- talent has already got itself voted for!

  38. We are at some loss how to state what strikes us as the fault of this remarkable book, for the variety and excellence of the talent displayed in it is pretty sure to leave all special criticism in the wrong.

  39. The true eye for talent presupposes the true reverence for it,--O Heavens, presupposes so many things!

  40. Mountains of those your heaped manufactures, wheresoever edible or wearable, have they not disappeared before us, as if we had the talent of ostriches, of cormorants, and a kind of divine faculty to eat?

  41. Chapter V Aristocracy of Talent When an individual is miserable, what does it most of all behove him to do?

  42. I understand you to be able to worship the fame of talent, the power, cash, celebrity or other success of talent; but the talent itself is a thing you never saw with eyes.

  43. He was not more extraordinary for winsomeness and talent than she was for combined power of intelligence, tenacity of affection, and religiousness of principle.

  44. But this will not account for the literary talent of the doctors.

  45. In making a fire, depend upon it, there is something more than luck,--there is always talent in it.

  46. Unfortunately, here as everywhere, the sanctuary had been invaded by a numerous army of pedants who smirched by their ignorance and lack of talent the Church's noble and austere attire.

  47. Goya's savage verve and keenly fanciful talent delighted him, but the universal admiration his works had won nevertheless estranged him slightly.

  48. In fact, when the period in which a man of talent is obliged to live is dull and stupid, the artist, though unconsciously, is haunted by a nostalgia of some past century.

  49. They did not belong to the regular army, but were more properly the scouts of a religion which distrusted men of such talent as Veuillot and Hello, because they did not seem sufficiently submissive and shallow.

  50. This also applied to the Intersigne, which had later been joined to the Contes cruels, a collection of indisputable talent in which was found Vera, which Des Esseintes considered a little masterpiece.

  51. Indeed, good uncle, I have no sort of talent for all the busy duties of this post.

  52. It is under the rule of Persia, to which it pays a heavy tribute every fifteen years, and one golden talent in addition.

  53. They have not half the talent of that soldier!

  54. One has been going on in short as if the only thing to do were to accept the law of one's talent and thinking that if certain consequences didn't follow it was only because one wasn't logical enough.

  55. I may exaggerate in the retrospect his apparent anxieties, for these after all were the years when his talent was freshest and when as a writer he most laid down his line.

  56. Consistency was in itself distinction, and what was talent but the art of being completely whatever it was that one happened to be?

  57. The talent which a god bestowed has been the delight of thousands, but false knaves have stripped me of my well-earned treasure.

  58. A talent which a god bestowed upon me I would fain make a source of pleasure to others; and if I win the prize, how will the enjoyment of it be increased by the consciousness of my wide-spread fame!

  59. I suppose some people have a natural talent for cooking, the same as they have for painting.

  60. She had really a strong talent for sculpture, and contrived, with the aid of a framework of broomsticks, to give her statue a wonderfully good pose.

  61. Aldred's boasted experience was really confined to a few charades with the Rectory children at home; but she had considerable natural talent for acting, and could throw herself heart and soul into a part.

  62. Instead of sticking to actresses, who at least are in their line, and whom it would certainly induce to put more fire and talent into their parts--Ha!

  63. She had a talent for sketching in water color, and her own sanctum contained a dozen or more copious records of imaginary journeys illustrated with singular accuracy of detail.

  64. At any rate, local talent had no intention of kowtowing too deeply before the majesty of the "Yard," for the Chief of the Criminal Investigation Department himself could have achieved no more in the time than Police Constable Farrow.

  65. He had the faculty of boyishness, a talent for intimacies.

  66. Aubrey's talent had not been of the sort that has for its parents a hatred of society and a derision of its surfaces.

  67. He felt he had a talent for painting and gave himself up to it with his whole soul.

  68. Her talent for making me suffer excels my most infernal inventions; and if I escape from her hands with my life, I'll come out of the fire as pure as gold.

  69. Britain, are treated of here with considerable talent for observation, and on the whole not unfairly.

  70. Mr. Dalrymple prevailed on the Hudson's Bay Company to send out Mr. Duncan, a master in the navy, who had displayed considerable talent on a voyage to Nootka Sound.

  71. In these difficult circumstances the Emperor, who for some time past had observed the talent and address of the Comte Louis de Narbonne, sent him to Vienna, to supersede M.

  72. At a time when so many were striving to force themselves into notice there still existed a feeling of esteem in the public mind for men of superior talent who remained independent amidst the general corruption; such was M.

  73. It may be said that the extraordinary value she attached to talent was mainly founded in her idea that by the possession of it she would become a more suitable companion for her father.

  74. Like himself, his sister was devoted to music, and they spent many hours together cultivating their taste and talent for it.

  75. The brilliancy of the reputation which he won in his short career, has placed his name among the men who stood first for talent and patriotism in the early days of the Revolution.

  76. It is curious to remark the unequal distribution of talent in this family--each gifted member seeming to have been made so at the expense of one of the others.

  77. Her well-cultivated talent for music served to enhance her charms not a little in the eyes of such a musical devotee as Jefferson.


  78. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "talent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ability; accomplishment; acuity; afflatus; aptitude; aptness; art; artistry; asset; bent; brightness; brilliance; bump; caliber; calibrate; capability; capacity; cleverness; competence; craft; creativity; daemon; dexterity; dower; dowry; efficiency; endowment; equipment; esprit; facility; faculty; finesse; fitness; flair; forte; genius; gift; goods; head; ingenuity; inspiration; instinct; keenness; knack; makings; metier; natural; nimbleness; nose; nous; parts; potential; power; prodigy; proficiency; prowess; qualification; quickness; resource; savvy; sharpness; skill; smarts; soul; speciality; spirit; strength; sufficiency; susceptibility; talent; technique; timber; touch; turn; virtu; virtuoso