Sentence examples similar to prodigious acts from inspiring English sources

"Swan Lake" is a prodigious act of imagination.

For it to disavow its regulatory lusts would be a prodigious act of self-denial.

Ultimately, any change to campaign finance rules will require a prodigious act of legislative compromise.

Sometimes they found swift and prodigious turn.

"And if there is to be a boom … I hope it is one that is marked by a genuine sense of community and acts of prodigious philanthropy, and I wish the snob value and prestige that the Americans attach to acts of giving would somehow manifest itself here".

But balanced against those fears is the prodigious success she had with 50 Acts, and the number of people with whom it struck a chord.

In the U.S. House of Representatives, Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) holds the distinction of being the most prodigious opponent of the Davis-Bacon Act in Congress.

Troy Glaus, with his prodigious homers and powerful arm, looks and acts like the best third baseman in the league.

Nearly two centuries later, Death and the Maiden stands as his act of personal reckoning: a prodigious testament to the agony of life's transience.

The Act 2 adagio, with its overhead lifts, was survived rather than triumphed over, but in Act 3 Muntagirov finally unleashed the prodigious gifts that have seen him win a string of international student competitions.

The Cable Act slowed down TCI's prodigious growth rate, but made Malone more determined than ever to make the move from distributing programmes owned by other companies into owning the programmes themselves.