Sentence examples for intellectual prodigy from inspiring English sources
This, too, was a formative experience for the often aloof young intellectual prodigy.
But back in the early '30s, at the tail end of the Harlem Renaissance, it was home to one of New York's, and perhaps America's, most unusual families: the black journalist George Schuyler; his white Texas heiress wife, Josephine Cogdell Schuyler; and their daughter, Philippa, a musical and intellectual prodigy soon to be hailed as "the Shirley Temple of American Negroes".
People got turned on by him because he was an intellectual prodigy who disappeared into the wilderness to teach himself how to build cabins and live off bracken, berries, and wolves.
The girls grow up in London in a polyglot of European languages and strenuous intellectual endeavour, although it is "Tussy" who is the real prodigy.
It's not, "Geez, that's awful," it's, "How did she even get her feet down onto the pedals?" Put another way: unless you're a genius prodigy Bobby Fischer of feeling, it's kind of an intellectual endeavor.
While societies often elevate the intellectual gifted or uniquely talented among us, not all of us can be prodigies.
Never mind that the intellectual distance between Wilson and Anne Frank is immeasurable; not every self-conscious young girl will be a prodigy.
It is the usual mix of well born fraternity boys, prep-school girls, budding intellectuals and a motley crew of "diversoids".Into this mix steps Charlotte Simmons, a hardworking prodigy from backwoods North Carolina, the reddest part of a very red state.
Like a child prodigy, Stevens (31) is fixated with youth in his songs' obliquely confessional perspectives, but precocious in his intellectual range - he hymns Saul Bellow and 1950s presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson, for example.
Unlike Mozart, Schubert, and other prodigies born with music in their blood, Berlioz came to the art from the outside, in a spirit of intellectual adventure.
