'Not many of us are blessed with a talent like Lisa's.

"I am blessed with a talent and I have an obligation to the Lord to make the most of it," he says.

"I've been blessed with a talent that I've been able to let surface over 14 years in the big leagues," Boggs said, shrugging.

While Nastase was blessed with a talent that God distributes only once every few generations, I was blessed with a decent pair of legs, and a will to work and win.

These pages herald the rebirth of Africa, a continent afflicted by terrible problems but blessed with a talent for music, by the ever-renewed strength of its women and the secret power of ancient gods.

For New Times magazine, Frank Rich wrote, "Spielberg is blessed with a talent that is absurdly absent from most American filmmakers these days: this man actually knows how to tell a story on screen.

Blessed with a talent for digital animation, she was currently working with a computer that had ten gigabytes of memory, writing and animating a scenario for a virtual-reality attraction that would be franchised to twenty amusement parks across the country.

Blessed with a talent considered sublime even in the cynical schools of northern England, Wattana is now regarded as the only player outside the leading 'gang of four' with the technique and temperament to survive 17 days in one of sport's most demanding cauldrons.