Il était nullement taillé pour le rôle qu'il avait à jouer.... C'était un homme sans talents, ni civils, ni militaires; esprit borné, caractère dissimulé, dominé par des idées vagues de liberté mal digérées chez lui; mal conçues.

With a judicious word over a cup of tea an editor who refuses a bribe finds his or her talents a glut on the market.

If Nature did not talent a person the person is not talented.

It's worth the money just to learn what talents the fellow possesses.

for Science and Art have ever found in Thee a wise patron and a magnanimous promoter, and germinating talent its prosperity under Thy kind, paternal care.

We have opened a Literary Exchange, and we have had the gratification to see that men whose learning and talents the public recogniseleaders in their several branches of inquiryhave at once taken advantage of it.