The carnage from this battle was so great that, when heavy rain fell the following winter, the earth soaked up the putrefying bodies and bore a prodigious crop.
We need to have a blend of veterans willing to bring their prodigious experience to bear upon fraudsters, and we also need to recruit young men and women willing to spend their career in regulation.
Our captain was a Pakistani artist called Javed, which gave him an aura of authority, for he bore the same name as the prodigious run-scorer Javed Miandad, who was captain of the Pakistan team.
A more flamboyant side of Mr. Bronfman's artistry emerged in a prodigious account of Brahms's Sonata No. 3, written when the 20-year-old composer bore the weight of being heralded as Beethoven's heir.
And who but a bore could resist a bit of Whiggery when you come across reflections on America like the following one from the Edinburgh Review of 1818: "Where is this prodigious increase of numbers, this vast expansion of dominion, to end?
That epic energy is borne out in a prodigious résumé that belies his 26 years: Mr. Muhly has variously performed with, and arranged and conducted recordings for Bjork, Philip Glass, Antony and the Johnsons, and the Icelandic musician Valgeir Sigurdsson.
But on a 200-foot seaside bluff just outside Comox, a midcentury Modernist house bears witness to the prodigious talent of its designer -- a once prominent figure in North American architecture who is largely unknown in the United States -- and to the tenacity of an owner who recently saved it.
Shouldn't he be granted a little slack? LeBron James will always intrigue us because, with his Chosen One and Gifted Child tattoos, he nakedly bears the burden of his prodigious gifts.
