Uvayev, a buoyant but marginal talent on defense, is trying hard to earn a contract.

The world may not need another lovely woman with marginal vocal talent using electronic augmentation to pump up her musical impact.

Smith was much more of a marginal talent himself, a minor league defenseman out of Toronto and then Western Michigan University.

Barry also ranks on the short list of greatest underdog players in basketball history, as his teams repeatedly overachieved despite marginal talent around him.

I think he's just got a marginal talent he's masterful at exploiting.

Mr. Peters, a junior-high-school dropout and former hairdresser, was a bully with apparently marginal talents.

Their chances to make the majors as marginal talent, or in any other capacity, will be gone.

Others were marginal talents, satellite tourists who had had perennial flirtations with major tournaments.

You can have guys with a lot of talent who are not winners and guys with marginal talent who are winners.

The same can't be said for the notoriously dawdling Cabaret Convention marathons, which are often padded with marginal talents.