Sentence examples for prodigious figures from inspiring English sources

Lacking any prodigious figures or difficult runs, the piece displays Rachmaninoff's capability for musical lyricism.

Over the past four decades he has composed a prodigious number of orchestral pieces, his productivity steadily accelerating: as well as the eight symphonies, there have been numerous occasional pieces, and a list of concertos that easily stretches into double figures.

Voltaire's beliefs prompted a prodigious number of polemical writings.

In place of Diablo's top-down two-dimensional graphics, Flagship set about the prodigious technical task of figuring out how to generate random three-dimensional environments.

This prodigious musician, an elfin figure who uses no baton, instead sculpting the air with splayed hands and expressive flicks of a shoulder or elbow or index finger, is a hot catch for this fine orchestra.

His skill is prodigious, and his quirky female figures, with their flawless skin and lopsided features -- they're like wigged-out Breck girls -- are creepily captivating.

Even his personal traits -- his 100-watt smile, his carefully coiffed hair, his engaging manner with people above and below his rank and his prodigious memory for facts and figures -- suggest someone programmed to lead through the consensus of the elite.

A flamboyant, tragic figure with a prodigious appetite for women and whiskey, Bolden has been credited as the first jazz cornet player.

A crack 10-piece instrumental ensemble included the prodigious pianist Marc-André Marc-André Hameliny offered simple, supportive figures; Mr. Andsnes played the harmonium part on a synthesizer.

Actin dynamics require prodigious amounts of energy in the form of ATP.

Jordan and Stuart Broad fell to catches behind the wicket and Mathews found prodigious seam movement to bowl Plunkett and complete Test-best figures of 4-44.