Taunton dismisses Hitchens's prodigious learning as shallow because it did not lead him to the gospel.
It's as if Nathalie's prodigious learning has taken the place of her own emotions, her own experience, and, stripping her of her books, Hansen-Løve proceeds to inflict pain and suffering on Nathalie in an effort to see what remains of her essential self.
Noble origins, fashionable friends, physical beauty, prodigious learning, capacious memory, scholarly journeys, youthful sins, trouble with the Church, eventual repentance and a pious death: these are the motifs of the family hagiography by his nephew that have kept Giovanni Pico famous for being famous over the centuries.
He wasn't a scientific prodigy who happened to end up in art, but a prodigious artist learning on the job.
This rapid rise seems unlikely for a kid who grew up in Inglewood, California, in the 90s, an incredibly violent era for South Central, when it was probably more prodigious to learn gang signs than study chord changes.
This rapid rise seems unlikely for a kid who grew up in Inglewood, California, in the 90s, an incredibly violent era in South Central, when it was probably more prodigious to learn gang signs than study chord changes.
The advances in learning, the prodigious amount of high-quality comparative images of "the real thing," and developments in scientific analysis mean that serious counterfeiting of the likes of Vermeer is almost impossible.
"Ms. Hall is a very polished and mature candidate who has had a wide variety of experiences from which she has very intelligently managed to learn prodigious amounts".
A prodigious talent, Liberace learned to play the piano at the age of four and was able to memorise difficult classical pieces by the time he was seven.
Eventually, all these characters and plot lines are brought together, as Muehler is hired to be Eleonora's tutor and employs her talents to help break a code, and the sultan, learning of Eleonora's skill at languages and prodigious memory, summons her to the palace to advise him on his empire's conflict with the Russians.
"Winterthur places great emphasis on original research," Ms. Kane said of the former home of Henry Francis Dupont, which was first turned into a museum displaying his prodigious collections of American decorative arts and then became a center for learning.
