"Ian combines a prodigious knowledge of the resources sector, keen policy instincts and great advocacy skills," Pearson said.
Bertrand Russell, who had a prodigious knowledge of history and a crisp wit, claimed in 1930 that he could think of only two useful contributions that religion had made to civilization.
Four years ago his debut feature, "Brick," a film noir spoof set in a contemporary high school, announced the arrival of a director with a prodigious knowledge of film genres and a visual flair to match.
(Drink up, Martian!) Pableaux Johnson, a child of Louisiana with prodigious knowledge of this city's food scene, was among the crowd.
Even Carter's prodigious knowledge, his phenomenal recall of data, can count against him.
Alternately affable and irascible, with his flat Northern vowels and prodigious knowledge of the game, Coleman's "garrulous gurgle," as the Daily Telegraph once called it, swept away the decorous BBC English that marked the first generation of bow-tied, pencil-mustached TV commentators.
But his greater detachment in his later decades, with his prodigious knowledge of the history of the left, gave him much greater insight into British politics than most participants, and in 1981 he published his prophetic lecture called "The Forward March of Labour Halted?".
But you make do with what you have — a prodigious brain, a tremendous knowledge of past financial crises, and a personality that is above reproach.
For the past 20 years or so, Richard Powers seems to have been engaged in a prodigious attempt to redress the imbalance of knowledge that was the subject of C. P. Snow's famous "Two Cultures" lecture.
Genomic sequence data from the three domains of life have revealed a prodigious range of genome compactnesses; however, our knowledge of the processes responsible for this gamut of genomic architectures is contentious.
"He had that combination of knowledge and passion, and then a prodigious work ethic," said Peter D. Feaver, a professor of political science at Duke University who worked with Mr. McGurk in the Bush administration.
