Sentence examples for prodigious scale from inspiring English sources

Intimate family narratives were conveyed on a prodigious scale.

The film is short on the provocative ideas that Gene Roddenberry's original TV series had plenty of, but offers bangs for bucks on a prodigious scale in a succession of repetitive battles that will have the 3D glasses bouncing on everyone's nose.

Burning it on such a prodigious scale is changing the world's climate, altering monsoon patterns, melting glaciers, and acidifying the oceans.

Here his swarthy baritone is prodigious in scale and implausibly pliable.

The road trips were blogged over five days in real time and were directed by Guardian readers and users of Twitter – the idea being to find local voices and bring local insight to a destination that is prodigious in scale.

Suffice it to say that, for the reader, the rewards of his writings are as prodigious as their scale".

Their scale was prodigious, their architecture iconic, the materials from which they were made — marble, oak, granite, iron — were suitably noble.

The country's ability to navigate such a rocky period, industry experts said, ultimately depends on how much American society scales back its prodigious consumption of oil.

They wished he had gone further, faster, to resolve a dilemma at the heart of India's fiscal mess.The scale of that mess is prodigious.

The ski industry is a particularly relentless driver of development, disfiguring landscapes on a massive scale, causing traffic, and emitting prodigious amounts of carbon.

It is the answer to the "Heiligenstadt Testament": a symphony on an unprecedented scale and at the same time a prodigious assertion of the human will.