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It did, however, contrive to make global headlines, earning the defender the nickname "Llama" in honour of the South American camelid's prodigious ability for hurling projectiles manufactured from saliva.
On the face of it this does not have a lot to do with the specialised mechanical discipline that is fast bowling, or indeed the career of Steven Finn, England's own talented, statistically prodigious man-of-the-moment-before-last, whose falling away from the front rank is one of the more puzzling base notes of a generally puzzling tour of Australia.
Wolves, he tells us, "frequently commit prodigious ravages".
After all the prodigious work of the back-rows – Justin Tipuric could be added to the starting six from Wales-Ireland for impact and sheer cussed indefatigability and Courtney Lawes did his normal interpretation of a flanker playing in the wrong row – the title will be decided by the somehow unglamorous calculation of points difference.
His prodigious love of women did not, it emerged, extend to his wanting any of them to win this "special honour awarded to individuals of great achievement in the fields of the arts, learning, literature and science".
Raddatz is an extraordinarily accomplished journalist with prodigious war zone experience, knows the military as well as anyone in the field and has a sterling reputation among colleagues for a lifetime of forthright and courageous reporting.
But hand one of them a Rubik's Cube and you will see a seemingly normal person transform into a being capable of prodigious feats.
He was well known, not to say notorious, in Viennese artistic circles in the early years of the 20th century and his prodigious gifts as an artist were widely recognised.
It should be noted that Bachmann herself was a prodigious fundraiser, garnering over $15m for her race in 2012 – but Democrats can't even celebrate a blow to Republicans' coffers, as Bachmann was notoriously stingy with using her funds to support other GOP candidates.
These were the days before Photoshop, when art budgets would easily stretch to prodigious international travel – and everything was done in person, on location, right down to the Egyptian pyramids featured on the posters that were tucked inside the Dark Side sleeve.
GROUCHO MARX thumbed his prodigious nose at any club that would have him as a member.
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The adjective "prodigious " primarily functions to qualify nouns , emphasizing an exceptional or remarkable degree of size, quantity, or ability. As Ludwig AI confirms, it is a valid and grammatically sound descriptor. Examples show it modifying nouns like 'ability', 'ravages', 'work', and 'gifts'.
Expression frequency: Very common
