That he mastered every aspect of his medium according to his own great talents and contemporary judgments, is a good and solid symbol of his people under the tremendous pressures of proclaiming and practising the rigors of a new culture ; ;

As he had spent most of his savings during his four years there while writing A Treatise of Human Nature, he resolved " to make a very rigid frugality supply my deficiency of fortune, to maintain unimpaired my independency, and to regard every object as contemptible except the improvements of my talents in literature ".

The Marx Brothers ' films included a musical number in nearly every film, allowing the Brothers to highlight their musical talents.

The Catholic Encyclopedia allows that " Ludovico, it is true, advanced the interests of his family in every possible way, but he also used his brilliant talents and his great influence for the welfare of the Church, and was sincerely devoted to the pope.

Carthage, stripped of allies and territory ( Sicily, Sardinia, Hispania ), was suffering under a huge indemnity of 200 silver talents to be paid every year for 50 years.

Toscanini fans and record collectors were dismayed because, although Toscanini had not approved the release of these performances in every case, many of them were found to be further proof of the greatness of the Maestro's musical talents.

* Edmund Blackadder wrote on Sputnikmusic. com that Farewell was " Rush's masterpiece ( closely followed by Hemispheres )", describing the instrumentation as " absolutely brilliant, with every musician at the peak of their talents " and praised the album for its " wide variety of different song types and structures ".

It was claimed that during the latter period of his administration he had abandoned himself to every kind of excess, and we are told he squandered 1200 talents a year on dinners, parties, and love affairs.

These competitions, regularly held every year, have been a platform for youngsters to stand up and recognize their talents.

Revere wrote, " I have been induced to enquire her situation, and character, since she quit the male habit, and soldiers uniform ; for the more decent apparel of her own sex ... humanity and justice obliges me to say, that every person with whom I have conversed about her, and it is not a few, speak of her as a woman with handsome talents, good morals, a dutiful wife, and an affectionate parent.

It is for this reason that every other economic parable of Jesus besides the parable of the talents explicitly offers an example of unconditional radical socio-economic redistribution.

We are committed to accountability and to pursuing excellence in our administration through skillful stewardship of our talents, time, facilities, finances, and all resources entrusted to us by God and his people, at every level of the church.

On his return to Copenhagen, in 1662, Schumacher found the monarchy established on the ruins of the aristocracy, and eager to buy the services of every man of the middle classes who had superior talents to offer.

: As a Quaker War Secretary, I should consider myself a living illustration of a horrible incongruity .... In case our country should come into armed conflict with any other, I would go as far as any man in her defense ; but I cannot, without violating every tradition of my people and going against every instinct of my nature, planted there by heredity, environment and training, sit down in cold blood in an executive position and use such talents as I possess to the work of preparing for such a conflict.

*" he major book companies ’ standard contract, deceptively titled “ WORK FOR HIRE ,” is a legal but unethical instrument designed to rape and plunder young talents of every possible prerogative they would otherwise possess if they had the fortune to work for more scrupulous, morally invested, publishers.

The Silver Needle Fashion Show is an event held every spring to showcase the talents of student designers.

Hilfiger is fiercely proud of this achievement, and stated that " it's really representative of our generation right now ... Basically the new generation of creative people, you're multitalented, and you use your talents and creativity in every aspect.

The talents of this group of ' first call ' players were used on almost every style of recording, including television theme songs, film scores, advertising jingles and almost every genre of American popular music, from The Monkees to Bing Crosby.

Since 1977, Viva la Musica has seen both the ' defections ' of musicians every two or three years and the entrée and emergence of other new talents.

Nevertheless, it is undeniable that each and every member of La Sonora Matancera expertly blended their talent with the talents of their colleagues.

Paranavaí is also known for its only professional soccer team, the Atlético Clube Paranavaí-ACP ( Paraná State Championship runner-up in 2003 and champion in 2007 ), and for the Music and Poetry Festival, held every year, which attracts artistic talents from all parts of Brazil.

Yarram hosts an anuual eisteddfod every August showcasing the area's artistic talents in music, speech and drama.

She wanted a new kind of family life, one not focused only on the male members of the family, but one which would give a larger place for women to be in focus and develop their own talents and personality.

A man with considerable military talents, apparently Corvus also possessed a very kind and amicable nature.

Much the same way that the influential Duke Ellington matched his scores to the unique abilities of his performers, Hefti was able to take advantage of the same kind of ' fine-tuning ' to bring out the best of the talents of the Basie band.

Bosley Crowther was not so kind to Dangerous to Know ( 1938 ), which he called a " second-rate melodrama, hardly worthy of the talents of its generally capable cast ".

It may be pointed out, however, that in one or two pure landscapes of the end of his life he achieved qualities of the highest artistic kind ; but this was after lengthy experience as a cattle painter, by which his talents had become thoroughly developed.

In this procedure, a person recognized for special religious talents, a kind of shaman whom we may call a trance-healer, dances until he or she goes into a state of trance, which might last for many hours.

In this comedy show of sketches and stand-ups, he brought to life, along with other local talents, a bunch of peculiar characters who gained immense popularity in the Puerto Rican pop culture, like the clown Trompetilla, a grumpy clown with a kind of fraudulent circus ; and Andresito a kind of Dennis the Menace little boy.

The criteria for what can be included in this kind of urban environment varies from place to place, given differences in existing infrastructure and built form, climate and availability of local resources or talents.

Edmund Gosse, in his introduction to Rowlands's complete works, edited ( 1872 – 80 ) for the Hunterian Club in Glasgow by Sidney John Hervon Herrtage, sums him up as a kind of small non-political Daniel Defoe, a pamphleteer in verse whose talents were never put into exercise except when their possessor was pressed for means, and a poet of considerable talent without one spark or glimmer of genius.

" The review praised the performances as " thoroughly effective ," and said that " Victor Mature, an actor once suspected of limited talents, turns in a thoroughly satisfying job as the sincere and kindly cop, who not only knows his business but the kind of people he is tracking down.

Despite the initial combination of talents, the strip was never a success ; perhaps the confusion about what kind of strip it actually was contributed to this.

" Talents for low intrigue, and the little arts of popularity, may alone suffice to elevate a man to the first honors in a single State ; but it will require other talents, and a different kind of merit, to establish him in the esteem and confidence of the whole Union, or of so considerable a portion of it as would be necessary to make him a successful candidate for the distinguished office of President of the United States "

In the autumn of 1984, Twain's talents were noticed by Toronto DJ Stan Campbell who wrote about her in a Country Music News article: " Eilleen possesses a powerful voice with an impressive range.

Alcibiades ' military and political talents frequently proved valuable to whichever state currently held his allegiance, but his propensity for making powerful enemies ensured that he never remained in one place for long ; and, by the end of the war he had helped rekindle in the early 410s, his days of political relevance were a bygone memory.

This centralisation inevitably enhanced the power of the Prime Minister, who moved from being the primus inter pares of the Asquith Cabinets of 1906 onwards, with a glittering set of huge individual talents leading powerful departments, to the dominating figures of David Lloyd George, Stanley Baldwin and Winston Churchill.

* A tongue-in-cheek French adventure comic series, Lanfeust of Troy, has also come up with a few characteristics similar to some from the World of Xanth, such as: humans possessing a single magical talents ranging from benign to powerful, jungle medieval / fantasy land with weird and extensive fauna, a young villager with an unknown-yet-powerful talent bound to become the hero, an arch-enemy wanting to conquer and rule the world, a quest for the source of magic ending up in the discovery of a fabulous creature, hero's love interest shifting from a beautiful and vain girl to a more complete type of women, humorous play on words on many names and titles, and so on.

The collapse of Death Row Records meant its title as a powerful hip-hop label was subsequently revoked despite attempts from the last remaining founder and CEO at the time, Suge Knight, that included signing new talents and releasing many compilations of previously unreleased content recorded by ex-Death Row artists.

Quickly, Cao's associates, including Deng Yang ( 鄧颺 ), Li Sheng ( 李勝 ), He Yan ( 何晏 ), and Ding Mi ( 丁謐 ), who were known for their talents but lack of wisdom, all became powerful, and they excluded other officials who would not associate with them from positions of power.

Her personality echoes her talents as a powerful and somewhat wild sorceress, highly unpredictable and prone to sudden outbursts of rage.

Conversely, Queen Jehana of Gwynedd, a full-blooded Deryni from an ancient and powerful lineage, is barely able to perform the most basic of Deryni talents, due to her lack of training throughout much of her life.

But beyond this framework, powerful talents created works with an implicit feeling of opposition and with universal significance.

His repeated pardons showed that Henry could not afford to neglect such a powerful personality, and his military talents were repeatedly displayed.

Such were his talents at market manipulation that he was soon engaged by J. P. Morgan and William Rockefeller to manage funds for them and Keene emerged once again as a wealthy and powerful force in the New York financial community.