Sentences with phrase «squandering talent»

I'd go further and say that squandering talent actually has two components: failing to realize the potential universe of talent at your disposal, and then failing to maximize the talent that you do choose.

In Henderson's first season, Dalglish often shunted him out wide, thus squandering his talent as a...

He'd recruit brilliantly but squander talent, particularly on offense.

When it comes to squandered talent, John Daly, 35, is the clubhouse leader.

«We can not afford to squander the talent, hard work and enthusiasm of young people.

«We can not afford to squander the talents and skills of new teachers who are the future of the profession.

Yet as Wired contributing editor Davis shows, over the years that followed, the U.S. has by and large squandered the talent the students displayed.

As with his two most celebrated departures, Punch Drunk Love and Funny People, there's a meta dimension to the part, which finds him playing a gifted artist who's squandered his talent.

Yet the film squanders her talents, and what's left of our patience, en route to a finale that is neither surprising nor illuminating: Like the rest of the movie, it's misery for misery's sake.

The unfortunate pain of seeing Javier Bardem continue to squander his talents on roles that turn him into a joke in movies that sully his filmography.

The phoned - in method is mirrored by his stars, with Statham channelling his stereotype, Owen squandering his talents, and De Niro continuing his decade - long crescendo of celluloid disappointment.

Though «Don Verdean» isn't quite as moronic as its predecessor — there's a kernel of a good idea in its mocking depiction of religious commercialism — the film squanders the talents of Sam Rockwell, Jemaine Clement and Amy Ryan.

There are three ways a singer can make movies: The Elvis route, where you let people squander your talent.

Along the way, the film employs and immediately squanders the talents of legitimate comedy all - stars Amy Ryan, Danny McBride, Jemaine Clement and Will Forte.

Dicky Eklund was a former boxer that squandered his talents and threw away his shot at greatness.

If we continue to put carefully selected and well - trained professionals in districts where the conditions are challenging at best and untenable at worst, we set these principals, and our nation's students, up for failure — and squander the talent that has been developed.

A White House that is more interested in promotion than in product development has another great drawback: it squanders talent.

Because we squander talent.

Not exact matches

In his witty, 18 - minute takedown of the talent - squandering treadmill that is the traditional public education system, Sir Kenneth Robinson challenges us to «radically rethink» the way we teach our children.

Although cloistered, the talent was not lost — thereby squandering 20 years of agrarian labor.

They were there to entertain us and lose, all while squandering real talent along the way.

It was too late, and his talent was already squandered.

Sad to see such a talent being squandered.

I hate to see talent like that squandered for any reason.

I'd hate to see him traded after his talent being squandered by bill peters.

«This waste of talent, this squandering of human potential, this grotesque failure to give all our fellow citizens an equal chance is a reproach to our conscience,» he added

How much talent do we squander in the world because a child can't get an «A» on a standardized test?

The cast is anchored by two wonderful actresses: Imelda Staunton and Rebecca Hall, whose talents are squandered on this lackluster horror drama.

It's sad to see Latifah's talent squandered on such clichés.

Great cast, top notch talent all around, but squandered.

It seems like a waste of talent, but worse still, Cesar Chavez squanders an opportunity to revisit a story worth retelling.

A squandered opportunity at a classic political satire, and an unfortunate waste of talent..

On the opposing side, you have Kristen Stewart, whose once fresh talent has been squandered and ruined as she believes the hype of the dreadful «Twilight» films.

But when Danny's manager and closest friend Frank Grubman (fellow «The Insider» alumnus Christopher Plummer) gives him a letter from John Lennon that failed to reach Danny forty years previously, Danny realizes that he has sold out, squandering his musical talent and ambition by performing songs foisted on him by record labels.

I agree with Mark Kermode... QT squanders his considerable talent with these fan - wank movies.

Evan Creevy's sophomore effort, «Welcome to the Punch,» attempts to bridge that gap by delivering a Hollywood - style crime thriller on an indie budget, but although he's landed an impressive cast of A-list British talent, it's mostly squandered on a bland and overly predictable script.

With a title that is almost comically on the nose, the combined charms of Yelchin, Zooey Deschanel, Frank Langella and Alia Shawkat can't save this meandering, insipid drama and it» t tough not to ask «how» the talent on board could be so thoughtlessly squandered.

Recommendation: Disappointing video game adaptation squanders the massive talents of its leading trio in Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard and Jeremy Irons.

Jason Bateman once again squanders his comic talent, playing a straight man to Melissa McCarthy «s unpalatable identity thief.

Major talent on both sides of the camera is squandered in search of producing a film that's so aggressively annoying that it is painful to sit through.

Not an immense waste of time, just a couple of forgettable hours, and most frustrating is how the film squandered Henson's immense talent.

A lot of great talent squandered.

Starring the typically delightful Jenny Slate, Zachary Quinto and John Hamm, Aardvark, directed by Brian Shoaf completely squanders their collective talents with a astoundingly dumb film.

Review by Matt Anderson: A lot of talent is squandered when Fracture makes some boneheaded moves

A lot of comic talent is squandered along the way.

Joseph Gordon - Levitt's talents are squandered in an inane supporting role.

Hollywood's ability to squander Dinklage's talents isn't the worst or only tragedy of the industry's narrow - mindedness.

He was marvelous in Neighbors as a preening frat boy, and emerged unscathed from the sex comedy That Awkward Moment, which criminally squandered a crop of young talents with great potential: Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Imogen Poots and Mackenzie Davis.

This joyless and interminable soul - searching comedy squanders a wealth of talent and taxes your patience with aimless, unappealing storytelling that's bogged down by muddled contemporary social commentary.

Adrien Brody lends a haunted / obsessive air to «Houdini,» but his talents are squandered in this History biopic about the man behind the myth.