It was surely a terrible doom to have to sit there and give these untalented brats music lessons.
"Bertha Garlan"
Arthur Schnitzler
To be an unappreciated, unloved relative of the exquisite wild rose, with which this flower is so often likened, must be a similar misfortune to being the untalented son of a great man, or the unhappy author of a successful first book never equalled in later attempts.
"Wild Flowers Worth Knowing"
Neltje Blanchan et al
They took its success for granted and saved their help and their business for young men, such as the energetic but otherwise untalented Dick Holden, of whom less was expected.
"The House of Toys"
Henry Russell Miller