Sentences with phrase «prodigious gift»

Malawi is a gift economy and its conception of time is non-linear — time is conceived as an abundance to be «wasted» in creative play, which manifest in a performative culture, Nyau, and in prodigious gift giving within everyday life.

Phoenix has a prodigious gift for playing crazed or crazy men with empathy, not relying on tics, but rather finding the pain in and purpose of those tics.

Enter Ender Wiggin (Asa Butterfield, Hugo), a 12 - year - old with a vast intellect and a prodigious gift for tactical dominance.

Rimbaud was a genius — but to what use did he put his prodigious gift?

That's a shame, because D is one of his generation's brightest talents, and Black Messiah is a reminder of his prodigious gift.

It has the curious effect of making him, a footballer of prodigious gifts in a football team built around him, look oddly isolated, strangely vulnerable.

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.

«Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented», de Kooning famously once remarked, but in fact, these works grew out of an extended period of innovation in which that artist had deliberately attempted to subvert his prodigious gifts as a draughtsman in favour of newer, unconsciously made, but more vital marks.

Not exact matches

At last I perceived a beam of light glimmering at time top of the house (for such I may call the body I had been inclosed in), whither ascending, I gently let myself» down through a kind of chimney, and issued out at the nostrils as the window was wide open, I sallied forth into the open air: but, to my great astonishment, found myself unable to fly, which I had always during my habitation in the body conceived of spirits; however, I came so lightly to the ground that I did not hurt myself and, though I had not the gift of flying (owing probably to my having neither feathers nor wings), I was capable of hopping such a prodigious way at once, that it served my turn almost as well.

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.

«The Invitation» might be labeled as a horror film, but it far better fits the prodigious «mindfuck film» subgenre label, following the likes of «The One I Love» and «The Gift» in recent years.

He is a legal writing professor, a program director, a great lawyer, a great former conductor, a violist and violinist, and a gifted prodigious scholar who is very active within our community.