Sentences with phrase «most prodigious»

Perell is considered one of the most prodigious and active judges on the bench.

We produce 42 percent of the globe's corn — more than the next most prodigious corn - producing countries, China and Brazil, combined.

Direct connections with French surrealism were maintained through Riopelle, the most prodigious of the young painters, who moved to Paris in 1946, and Leduc, who lived there from 1947 to 1953.

Delve into the recent Steam release of Muv - Luv and you won't immediately understand why the 2003 visual novel is often considered one of the medium's most prodigious efforts.

But the Imminent release of The Metronomicon is arguably the developer's most prodigious effort yet - with the game extending a rousing fusion of role - playing and rhythm game.

One of the most prodigious creatures of the insect world, the aphid is nothing short of a biological marvel.

Mise en Scène and Film Style is a truly ambitious book, offering the most sustained «academic» piece of writing yet published by this most prodigious and prolific of Australian film critics and scholars.

They are so active in methanogenic wetlands that they are considered the most prodigious methane producers on the planet.

Klein, one of the Senate's most prodigious fundraisers and a former head of the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee, would also ban corporate contributions.

Ms. Malliotakis won't necessarily be an easy target as she is one of the most prodigious fundraisers in the entire New York State Assembly and considered a rising star in some Republican circles.

Bill Mahoney, with the New York Public Interest Research Group, says it's disappointing that the governor, who he says is «the most prodigious fundraiser» in New York, will not be included in the public campaign finance system.

It may be that the name Kakuta rings a quiet bell somewhere in the back of the mind, for the Frenchman was regarded as one of the most prodigious talents in world football not so long ago.

This effort has been called by some of his admirers the most prodigious apologia for the Christian faith ever written by an American theologian.

Also, appropriately assess your life, health, and diverse insurance needs, as catastrophic bills can potentially be the most prodigious threat to sustaining family retirement planning and wealth.

Despite Canadians being among the most prodigious users of the Internet, they really aren't doing much online business-wise.

The government's Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology has released its report on e-commerce in Canada, titled «Pursuing the Promise,» and it paints the same picture we've known for some time now — that despite Canadians being among the most prodigious users of the Internet, they really aren't doing much online business-wise.

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For philistinism thinks it is in control of possibility, it thinks that when it has decoyed this prodigious elasticity into the field of probability or into the mad - house it holds it a prisoner; it carries possibility around like a prisoner in the cage of the probable, shows it off, imagines itself to be the master, does not take note that precisely thereby it has taken itself captive to be the slave of spiritlessness and to be the most pitiful of all things.

This story, as I say, is a familiar one to students of art history, church history, or dogmatic history; and for the most part Besançon soberly follows the main contours of the narrative, adding to it only his prodigious learning and a pleasing narrative style.

And economically and psychically the entire mass of Mankind, under the inexorable pressure of events and owing to the prodigious growth and speeding up of the means of communication, has found itself seized in the mould of a communal existence — large sections tightly encased in countless international organizations, the most ambitious the world has ever known; and the whole anxiously involved in the same passionate upheavals, the same problems, the same daily news....

In June he won the National Open, starting the last 18 holes with a prodigious 346 - yard drive to the first green at Colorado's Cherry Hills Country Club — perhaps the single most meaningful golf shot of the year, because he then went on to score six birdies on the first seven holes and record the strongest finish in that tournament's 60 - year history.

Parker was viewed as the most pro-ready player in a loaded draft, a prodigious talent capable of scoring from all three levels.

He will be the most accomplished player in the draft bar none, with an outstanding résumé in the Euroleague and ACB at a prodigious age and having led Slovenia to last summer's Eurobasket title.

There are allot of prodigious «white folks out there and most of them are in the republican party.

Computational analysis of Sloan's prodigious data set has uncovered evidence of some of the earliest known astronomical objects, determined that most large galaxies harbor supermassive black holes, and even mapped out the three - dimensional structure of the local universe.

By 1994 Nakamuras output had been so prodigious that the University of Tokushima awarded him the thing he seemed to covet most: a doctor of engineering degree.

And thus began a pattern that would persist throughout Crick's career: While Watson did most of the data - gathering (building models, toiling in the lab), Crick simply thought — using his prodigious mental machinery to analyze existing theories, parry those of his partner, and churn out his own.

In one of the most comprehensive multi-observatory galaxy surveys yet, astronomers find that galaxies like our Milky Way underwent a stellar «baby boom,» churning out stars at a prodigious rate, about 30 times faster than today.

The most energetic eruption yet found in space illustrates the consequences of a black hole's prodigious appetite.

Along with showing us a world even most baseball fans know nothing about, Boden and Fleck capture Miguel's prodigious loneliness as he travels to the Knights» spring - training camp in Phoenix, where older Latino players show him the ropes: No hotel - room porn, no drinking beer from the minibar.

That's largely a gimmick and a pretty odd one for a film that spends most of its prodigious running time inside a single building.

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 term «Bollywood» supposedly was coined some time ago by an unnamed journalist to refer to the popular, mainstream films that make up most of India's prodigious output — the largest in the world — but not to be confused with art films like Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy or Mira Nair's Salaam Bombay!

The base and one - up - from - the - bottom Sport models fit well into our $ 30,000 budget, even with a few options; keep in mind that all Wranglers have 4 - wheel drive and prodigious off - road abilities as standard, so even the most basic versions will take you pretty far off the beaten path.

And even if power is not prodigious, it's perfectly sufficient for most applications.

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Flanked by immense LED driving lights with billet aluminium surrounds, the Track» ster is capable of devouring prodigious amounts of air to keep the engine running cool even under the most gruelling conditions.

A magnificent mix of luminous writing, prodigious research, and heedless imagination, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet is the most impressive achievement of its eminent author.

She employs a prodigious number of very - s, most - s and much - es throughout all her novels.

The Thing Around Your Neck is a resounding confirmation of the prodigious literary powers of one of our most essential writers.

There are scores of other recent examples of secret art — shows of paintings by Wade Guyton and Stephen Prina that appear suddenly, announced to only a select group, each year for a single day at Friedrich Petzel Gallery (most recently in March); a two - person show last summer at the Untitled gallery with a rear wall that, when pushed, swiveled and, like a James Bond - style hidden - door bookcase, opened onto a prodigious group show; the recent obsession over Kraftwerk's über - secret studio in Germany in advance of the group's MoMA retrospective; the hidden rooms and trap doors in Swedish artist Klara Lidén's shows (there's one in her current New Museum retrospective); and a drawing by David Hammons at MoMA that was covered with a cloth and unveiled only a few minutes a week by appointment at select times.

Budi Tek, the prodigious art collector and founder of the Yuz Museum in Shanghai, said at a panel discussion in Hong Kong this morning that he will partner with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to form a yet - to - be-named foundation, to which he will donate most of his sprawling collection of Chinese contemporary art.

Humans today are emitting prodigious quantities of CO2, at a rate faster than even the most destructive climate changes in earth's past.

The 13th century is an era of considerable volatility with some very warm decades at the end but what is most noticeable are the severe weather events of which the most notable is prodigious amounts of rain.

Most law department personnel take pride in applying their prodigious talents to their client's mission - critical legal problems and, through acumen and hard work, providing high - quality work product on tight deadlines.

She was a detail oriented Realtor in possession of a prodigious memory who relied upon knowledge of her area and the rules of engagement (delivered in a no - nonsense forthright manner) vs sales gimmickry (which gimmickry most newbies rely upon during their doomed - to - fail turns at chasing their pots of gold at the end of their listing rainbows).