Her story is well known: She was a natural athlete, a tennis player and track-and-field Olympian who segued into golf at a later age and thanks to her engaging personality and prodigious talents–helped launch the LPGA.
Recruited when the Lederles went to Chief Matlapeng in the local village of Molatedi to ask him to recommend potential employees, Modiko turned up with a sunny personality and prodigious dreadlocks.
Mr. Torricelli, a Democrat who was one of the Senate's most flamboyant personalities and prodigious fund-raisers, abruptly quit the 2002 race amid allegations of ethical misconduct and became a lobbyist.
Three years ago, the 16-year-old Stephens, a rising tennis star, embarked on a phone relationship with her father that evolved into a full-blown friendship, their bond forged by their similar charismatic personalities and prodigious athletic feats.
Jagr usually arrived the first day, and everything would begin to revolve around him, his outsized personality and his prodigious talent.
I listed his trophies, his goals and appearances, and let the world know all about the arrogant personality of this prodigious talent.
He has always been a prodigious author and a spectacular Paris personality, whether as a Dadaist, a Surrealist, or a Communist and in this book his gifts and nature have come to their climax.
Mr. Johnson has prodigious musical gifts, good looks and a warm, winning personality.
But you make do with what you have — a prodigious brain, a tremendous knowledge of past financial crises, and a personality that is above reproach.
Now Julia Angwin, a technology and media reporter for The Wall Street Journal, has done prodigious digging into the shady business practices, trailer-park aesthetics, lucky accidents and borderline personality types that have allowed MySpace to tap into the American psyche.
