Sentence examples for possibly prodigious from inspiring English sources

You said you had had from your earliest time, as the deepest thing within you, the sense of being kept for something rare and strange, possibly prodigious and terrible, that was sooner or later to happen to you".

At the end of a discussion of James's great story "The Beast in the Jungle" (1903), which is about a man who spends his life convinced that some "rare and strange, possibly prodigious and terrible" destiny awaits him, only to realize that he's missed what life has had to offer while he's been waiting, Toibin argues that the story "becomes much darker when you know about James's life...

You couldn't possibly have his prodigious output in so many disciplines and not lose sleep over it.

The theme of royal radiance gets its consummation in the prodigious "Rainbow portrait", possibly painted by Isaac Oliver for Robert Cecil and still in his spectacular mannerist palace of Hatfield House.

He was a shy, ungainly, possibly autistic child with a prodigious gift for maths and music, whose first spoken word was "Oedipus".

Twain was also enthralled by Thomas Wiggins, a blind, possibly autistic former slave with a prodigious repertory and technique, who toured under the name Blind Tom.

When that happens they all simultaneously mature, emerge, mate, lay eggs if female, and then die.Most biologists believe that the odd lifestyle of periodical cicadas is an example of a survival strategy called "predator satiation": the insects emerge in such prodigious quantities that predators cannot possibly eat them all.

Vieira certainly touched a raw nerve when he also spoke of how United should "be really worried" about losing the prodigious Ravel Morrison to West Ham United and possibly Frenchman Paul Pogba to Juventus.

For many people the words "gifted and talented" suggest prodigious individuals with quite extraordinary gifts and talents, possibly even heaven-sent.

But this was no daddy hundred, this was a grandaddy hundred, not just because of its prodigious size, but because only your grandad could possibly remember when India had been made to look quite so ordinary.

South Korea's prodigious output of trendy dramas featuring actors with impossibly perfect – possibly surgically enhanced – features and improbable plots has been followed by music whose popularity defies the often testy diplomatic relations between Tokyo and Seoul.