In short, they will have many of the real abilities of a rocket scientist.

They hardly do credit to her real abilities.

His real abilities, which were mainly of an administrative order, were combined with an adventurous disposition.

William James, the psychologist, has said that most men use only a very small percentage of their real abilities.

A man of real abilities can scarce find out a more humiliating or a more unprofitable employment to turn them to.

At that contact, in the matter of which you erred in not following up continuously, they succeeded in concealing their real abilities from you.

Yet we do not remember to have read with so little satisfaction any equal quantity of matter, written by any man of real abilities.

"O!" quoth I, shaking my wise head, "abilities, real abilities, make their own way."

"It is when you come close to a man in conversation," he said on another occasion, "that you discover what his real abilities are.