Sentences with phrase «more prodigious»

One thing to keep in mind is that the padding on the ear cups is much thicker and more prodigious than the padding on the headband.

But the other gases Dr. Hansen and his team cite are more prodigious trappers of heat.

Reading for just an hour or two is unlikely to be a problem, but more prodigious readers (and anyone who's more sensitive to such issues) may disagree.

In conversation it came out that I'd been Over There (as they called it) and this spurred them to thrust more prodigious helpings upon me.

Klein is considered one of the more prodigious fundraisers in the state Legislature and has an extensive network of donors.

Let the starry immensities therefore expand into an ever more prodigious repository of assembled suns;

Not exact matches

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has gone so far as to ban working from home, and many more offer prodigious incentives for coming in to the office, such as free meals, massages and gyms.

The company on Wednesday launched YouTube movie rentals in Canada, which should make a nation of already prodigious online video consumers even more ravenous devourers of bandwidth.

For civic governments trying to stay on top of all of this, it can mean overload: As more and more government departments — many of them already prodigious producers of data — start moving their data to the Internet, cities are faced with the question of what to do with it all.

If you are a prodigious saver, are willing to keep your money safe for a set duration of time while earning an interest rate above the current risk free rate 10 Year Treasury, and are concurrently investing in other more aggressive instruments, I recommend diversifying your capital into a 5 - year CD account or longer duration.

To them, the prodigious Palin family is surely seen as taking more than its fair share.

The Romans were prodigious record keepers, yet never saw fit to mention him, except in the above letters, which were more about keeping an eye on his followers, who were starting to emerge, Falun Gong like, as a dangerous cult to the Romans.

Combine three ingredients and you can produce a «new Body, whose Operations are more powerful and prodigious, then those of almost any Body of Natures own compounding.»

In the glow of this triumph how can he feel otherwise than exalted as he has never been since his birth; the more so since the prodigious event is not the mere accidental product of a futureless chance but the long - prepared outcome of intelligently concerted action?

And yet this is the greatest falsehood, for my prodigious resignation was the surrogate for faith, nor could I do more than make the infinite movement, in order to find myself and again repose in myself.

Whether it is wine at a wedding or rooms for eternity or picnic food, there is always more than enough, a prodigious supply.

The prodigious machine which in consistency was so compliant with its iron strength, so pliable with all its power, is in disorder; and the more excellent the machine was, all the more frightful is the confusion.

In the not too distant past, before cultivated yeasts and fancy cellar tricks, wines were all produced with indigenous yeasts, and you can be sure that more than a few vats of ripe Zinfandel or Petite Sirah, with their prodigious sugars, stuck before going dry.

At the helm of Oceana Coastal Kitchen, which is ensconced in the Catamaran Hotel and Spa situated on Mission Bay, is Executive Chef Steven Riemer — a prodigious, sustainability - oriented chef who boasts more than twenty - five years of culinary experience in San Diego and beyond.

With Gimenez refusing to sign a contract extension and Atletico likely more open to selling him in January than losing him on a free, the opportunity is there to take a prodigious centre back and fix Liverpool's greatest weakness.

Cahill garnered a little more than 41 percent of the vote, which many Republicans considered a success against the then - popular incumbent, who was a prodigious fundraiser and favorite among labor unions.

What's more, O'Rourke's prodigious fundraising suggests that Bernie Sanders's formula for raking in campaign cash (swear off corporate money, then invite ordinary Americans to affirm that choice) is replicable.

When he was — more or less — done with brilliantly unearthing truths that shifted perceptions about Lloyd George and his times and ventures, Ken — in his words «moved sideways» and used his gifts of dissection and perception as a prodigious producer of broader, deeper histories of Wales and of the United Kingdom.

Gillibrand is a prodigious fundraiser and has more than enough time to replenish her campaign coffers before the 2012 cycle starts in earnest.

And, legislators and good government advocates say there may be no one more familiar with the challenges associated with moving ethics reform through the legislature, as Schneiderman was a prodigious and prominent sponsor of ethics bills during his time representing Manhattan in the state Senate.

The DNA he has brought back records not just our distant history but also our more recent past — and in particular what happened around 800 years ago, when a prodigious fornicator named Genghis Khan splashed into the gene pool like a cannonball.

Although more work needs to be done to prove that Tammet's synesthesia does indeed account for his prodigious mathematical memory, Robertson says, the findings fit with other evidence that synesthetes can use their enriched sensory perception to boost memory.

He then returned to France to make more personal films such as Amelie (2001) and A Very Long Engagement (2004), as well as Micmacs (2009) and The Young and Prodigious TS Spivet (2013).

Hemingway & Gellhorn was directed by Philip Kaufman, who has long been one of the great American filmmakers, but who has spent most of the last decade in retreat, unable to find a project worthy of his prodigious gifts or — more likely — backers willing to make those projects happen.

The movie has more on its mind than its delicate frame can handle, but Finney remains an actor of importance and prodigious charm.

It's criminal that, in the more than two decades since Clueless, Alicia Silverstone hasn't had another part worthy of her prodigious talents: ace comic timing, a charismatic screen presence, and the ability to shade all of this with palpable vulnerability.

He argues that «under any conception of our separation of powers, I would have thought powerful and centralized authorities like today's administrative agencies would have warranted less deference from other branches, not more,» and that judicial deference has «added prodigious new powers to an already titanic administrative state.»

Prosser explains: «Despite channelling more than 500bhp to the rear wheels, the GT has prodigious traction, and the throttle response and rate of acceleration away from the corner is astonishing.»

It's more alert than its predecessor, it's undoubtedly effective and will make prodigious progress over any roads, but we'd instantly trade some of that pace for some meaningful adjustabilty in a corner.

Hopefully Porsche can accept it has exorcised the dynamic demons of that outboard motor and apply its prodigious talents to amplifying the 911's feel and expression a little bit more.

In the near term, that's good news, for the new XJ showcases all of the best Jaguar virtues — supreme speed, amazing quiet, and big fun to drive, with sharp steering, prodigious roadholding, and a better ride than any of its competitors, even those that build a lot more cars.

For us traditionalists, the Stelvio is the key to so much more for a once prodigious performance brand.

But it's also fair to say the more open the road the better the SVR likes it, able to hunker down in sweepers and flow, using its prodigious grip and booming engine to best effect.

Taken together, the design produces 295 horsepower, which is prodigious output for a daily driver that's more focused on being green than green - light shenanigans.

When she opened her eyes, she found Lizzie and the boy were building a sand castle of prodigious size, not the usual lumpy kid construction, but something far more sophisticated, with sheer, smooth walls pierced by arched gates, buttresses, and high, round towers.

It should be noted that the first one - star review I ever gave to a book was to one whose author is not only more or less aligned with myself politically, but is a moderately - famous blogger, whose beliefs needed (and still do) far more representation than they have, and whose (free for the taking) contribution to the world's supply of useful non-fiction is prodigious, ongoing, and much appreciated by a large population of readers which includes myself.

Many notice that the arrival years ago of «indie bestsellers» — such prodigious producers as Bella Andre, Barbara Freethy, Tina Folsom, Hugh Howey, Jasinda and Jack Wilder and maybe 10 to 15 others — hasn't been followed by a fast - widenging pool of such opulent success for many more.

And when we ask Page - Fort how the company is handling such a prodigious level of output, now working on so many translations, she says, «I think that the more authors you have in your family, the more authors you have in your family: a lot of the authors in «my family» have brought me the next author.

They've matured and transitioned over time, which allows them to return some of that prodigious FCF directly back to shareholders while still having more than enough to grow the business.

But the results are prodigious, because we have a temperamental advantage that more than compensates for a lack of IQ points.»

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Exploring the incomprehensibly prodigious galaxy of No Man's Sky is now wonderfully consistent, all the more immersive and generally more pleasant to experience.

And Jorge Albor at the prodigious Experience Points blog (who just recently celebrated their 100th podcast — congratulations Jorge and Scott) thinks about «Master Chief After Reach», and comes to the conclusion: «In many ways, Halo: Reach retroactively makes Master Chief a more interesting and compelling character.

The quests were evidently tailored with team play in mind, no more so than in quests in which you have to do such things as steal giants eggs from the habitats of prodigious beasts and where cover from team - mates is of the utmost importance.

Cindy Sherman still ups the ante with each new exhibition, even at the risk of becoming more obvious than suits Sherman's prodigious talent.