On the contrary they usually put their gifts into some satisfying but resolutely unimaginative task.

But he put his gifts into cold storage that morning: this was a moment that was neither for conviviality nor rhetoric.

Shorter and more elegantly conceived, it puts Ives's extraordinary gifts in the highest profile.

"Our kids understand they have an obligation to put their God-given gifts to work."

Meanwhile, she went out of the house and put her gifts to work in every way that presented itself.

Mr. Pogorelich, while endlessly gifted, has often put his gifts to eccentric if not perverse uses.

He put his psychokinetic gifts to work.

Yevgeny Kissin is a brilliant young pianist, and he has often put his gifts to fine interpretive use.

"Tell me, Calvin, weren't you afraid that I would win your loyalty and put your gifts to use in my service?"

His office was preserved to him by the Restoration, and Leber put his literary gifts at the service of the government.