Sentence examples for prodigious wit from inspiring English sources

Crippled, Catholic, and of modest social station, Pope relies on influential friends, adroit flattery, and prodigious wit to gain access to the heady coffeehouses and fashionable drawing rooms on which his success depends.

But, of course, for Democrats, It does not matter that the long and sordid history of Democratic plantation-style paternalism - from Jim Crow to the welfare state - has not only failed black communities, but kept them dependent on Democratic party elites for morsels of beneficence, instead of on their prodigious homegrown wits and resources.

Bob will be remembered for his prodigious intellect, sharp wit, and his devotion to Columbia.

Irwin will be remembered for his prodigious intellect, sharp wit, and his devotion to Columbia and the profession of dentistry.

Everyone now acknowledges what he amply documents: not just Armstrong's prodigious talent, but his wit, courage, kindness, loyalty, charm.

The song recounts the basic plot to the 1994 film Forrest Gump about a naïve and slow-witted yet athletically prodigious native of Alabama who witnesses, and in some cases influences, some of the defining events of the latter half of the 20th century in the United States.

Sentenced to deep-space exile, the beast (known as Experiment 626) uses his quick wits and his prodigious salivary glands to steal a spaceship and escape.

In recent years, but especially on this album, he's become the least quotable great rapper, with lines that land harder more because of his voice than because of his wit, which was once prodigious.

Bertrand Russell, who had a prodigious knowledge of history and a crisp wit, claimed in 1930 that he could think of only two useful contributions that religion had made to civilization.

In recognition of his dedication to Rhode Island education, he received honorary degrees from Brown University, Bryant University and Johnson and Wales University While known for his philanthropy, Kim is remembered by his family and friends for his support, love, prodigious intellect, voracious reading and rapier-like wit.

He had everything - a ferociously forensic brain, deep compassion, a prodigious capacity for work, great courage, a healthy and permanent distrust of politicians of any party, a sharp wit, a devastating pen and principles as deep, wide and awe-inspiring as the Grand Canyon.