Sentence examples for for a prodigious from inspiring English sources

Once up there, he can hold high notes for a prodigious length of time.

But then for a prodigious dribbler he doesn't have a huge range.

Singers and soloists, he notes, will frequently master recitals, concerti and operas that call for a prodigious exercise of memory.

Made up of elliptical phrases and fragmentary body parts, each is the occasion for a prodigious feat of memory and linguistic dexterity by Lisa Dwan, directed by Walter Asmus.

Written by Sarah Phelps, whose experience is in soap opera — she's responsible for a prodigious number of episodes of the British hit "EastEnders" — this "Great Expectations" crams a surprising amount of Charles Dickens's plot into its three hours while failing to capture any of the novel's overwhelming emotion or overriding strangeness.

Scenarios for the building of muon colliders or storage rings suitable for the generation of robust neutrino beams call for the generation of a prodigious quantity of pions.

Munching from a tub of KFC in a red Carlsberg soccer shirt, she is blunt, outspoken and pragmatic (about others' predicaments), if short-tempered and possessed of a prodigious thirst for alcohol.

When you order a porterhouse for two, a prodigious steak arrives, as thick as a fat book and twice as heavy.

He was known for having a prodigious memory, was the author of at least 40 books and was ranked 23rd on a list of the most influential 500 Muslims in the world.

He had an unending appetite for pop culture, a prodigious memory for dates, and a compulsion for cross-referencing them.

It is easy to link the dissenting self-reliance of those early arrivals with the qualities one still thinks of as quintessentially "American": religious tolerance (embodied in the separation of church and state), suspicion of over-mighty government, regard for liberty, and a prodigious appetite for work.