And yet, at the evening's heart, Solon's prodigious character-comedy talent is intact in this dotty publishing industry picaresque.
Stuart M. Kaminsky, a film scholar turned detective novelist who was widely known for his prodigious output, complex characters and rich evocations of time and place, including Hollywood in its Golden Age, died on Friday in St . Louis
But he soon outgrew this phase to develop a prodigious craft which exploits character as much as precision-engineered situations.
But Ms. Thompson can play old as well as young, lacing her character's prodigious charm with a chilly savagery.
She has visited each important locale of Hardy's life, noticing the large and seemingly simple things academic scholars often miss: "Most of his characters are prodigious walkers.
And Mr Roth's prodigious gift for storytelling and character seem to have become eclipsed by his equally prodigious gifts for rage and indignation.
NEW ROCHELLE - LIKE it or not, John Cheever's midcentury suburban nation of listless characters involved in prodigious numbers of extramarital affairs has given the area a certain mystique.
Obviously, she has developed and nurtured a prodigious gift for inhabiting her characters.
Osipova's whirling spins are full of feverish energy: her prodigious technique becomes an expression of the character's physical frailty.
Shikamaru is portrayed as a lazy character, unwilling to apply his prodigious intelligence; Kishimoto has noted that he likes Shikamaru due to his easygoing nature.
Few TV characters have had a more prodigious fall from grace than Robb Stark.
