Sentence examples for prodigious sense from inspiring English sources

Amid the foment of World War I, their 1916 manifesto praised cinema's ability "to give the intelligence a prodigious sense of simultaneity and omnipresence" — the very month that "Intolerance" opened in New York.

Successful business people who become angels often have a prodigious sense of superiority.

Costolo has a prodigious sense of humor, has managed to turn Twitter into a huge cultural and revenue generating force, and has taken the company public.

Homeland, I realized, was nothing if not a mystery novel in its most prodigious sense.

"Their eyesight is about the same as a human's, but they rely on their prodigious sense of smell for information," explains Ian Stirling, a retired Canadian Wildlife Service scientist, now affiliated with the University of Alberta, who has studied polar bears for over 40 years.

From Princess Leia to Danny DeVito to Hermione Granger, feisty people are known for their prodigious senses of sarcasm.

And this in turn came from his prodigious, now wounded sense of entitlement.

Nothing escaped Homer's eye in such matters, and we can sense the prodigious speeds that these schooners could achieve.

It isn't new; mathematicians have used it for years to make sense of prodigious chunks of information.

By far the most theatrical of the book's many colorful characters is the narrator's colleague, Leo O'Heix, a man of such prodigious energies that, one senses, he would be bored by anything less dangerous and frenetic than the high-risk multi­tasking that constitutes his ordinary routine.

— Theodorus of Hierapolis, On Athletic Contests, cited by Athenaeus in The Deipnosophists NBC has been running a commercial devoted to Phelps' prodigious intake, providing a visceral sense of just how much goes into that ten thousand goal.