During this entire period, these rulers utilized the vast resources of labour and wealth at their disposal to carry out a series of prodigious construction projects designed to glorify both themselves, their gods, and their capital city.
Figes, the author of two acclaimed Russian histories, A People's Tragedy and Natasha's Dance, has masterminded a prodigious research project, teasing out intimate experiences from people who spent their lives regarding individuality as both subversive and dangerous.
The scope of Thomas's project is prodigious, though, and the end result is an impressive success.
Why embark on a project with prodigious levels of technical risk and work and then end up making fewer returns?
But I wasn't prepared for the onslaught of the artist's sheer energy of mind, which is prodigious in documentary sections that present unrealized projects and piquant correspondence with, among others, the architect Philip Johnson, who was amused and sympathetic, and President Eisenhower, who did not reply.
(Its prodigious director, Jock Reynolds, who masterminded the expansion project, is himself a sculptor).
The Communist Party set out to change that in 2002, when it began Project 119, a program that uses prodigious state resources and relentless training to groom potential gold medalists in sports like swimming, gymnastics and track and field.
But for all the prodigious research that makes this an obvious labor of love and only half of a projected two-volume opus, there is something essential missing.
Finally, the single most time-consuming project of his career consists in his prodigious efforts towards reviving the works and reputation of one particular classical figure, Epicurus.
Bob Gendron of Chicago Tribune reviewed Clarkson's performance, writing "the Texas native could've impressed simply by projecting her booming voice and relishing its prodigious range.
