Sentences with phrase «prodigious use»

Typically brought together because of their prodigious use of film in their practice, the relationship between Morgan and Blake extends further than this.

Spanish Colonial Revival architecture is characterized by a combination of detail from several eras of Spanish Baroque, Spanish Colonial, Moorish Revival and Mexican Churrigueresque architecture, the style is marked by the prodigious use of smooth plaster (stucco) wall and chimney finishes, low - pitched clay tile, shed, or flat roofs, and terracotta or cast concrete ornaments.

Shedding 77 pounds through the prodigious use of aluminum helps.

Other than the title's rather prodigious use of alliteration, this is an inglorious nothing - burger.

Legislators have been quick to point out that he and his political affiliates have made prodigious use of some of the same «loopholes» and porous laws that the report decries.

Not exact matches

The four conglomerates originated in different sectors, but their underlying business model is the same: cultivate powerful allies in the Communist Party; use those relationships to win regulatory and property concessions; gather investment from friends, family and other proxies of party elites into a murky, unregulated private holding company; borrow heavily from state - owed banks and other sources to finance prodigious growth plans; invest as aggressively as possible in stock and property overseas as a hedge against slower growth in China and the risk of a weaker Chinese currency.

It used its prodigious fundraising abilities to attack multiple countries and regions simultaneously.

Prolific would be a fair word to use, among others, to describe such prodigious output.

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

The prodigious spread of coffee houses - single - location, ever - expanding mega chains and everything in between - likewise expands use of dairy in coffee beverages.

Following are some pickle recipes that I use to preserve prodigious cucumber crops.

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.

Wells Fargo & Company San Francisco, CA Banking 175 million green kWh, 14 % of total power used Like many organizations, Wells Fargo has been purchasing credits to offset some of its prodigious energy use.

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.

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 would subsequently argue that gay men were dying as a result of their allegedly prodigious drug use rather than AIDS.

Harry, having lost his longtime mentor, Albus Dumbledore, during a confrontation with Voldemort cronies, finds himself for the first time in his young life without a wise adult to guide him in the use of his prodigious powers.

Luckily, they befriend another kid, Haley (Lewis, Foxfire), who helps them to gain enough money to keep them on their way, using Jimmy's prodigious skills at playing video games to hustle the local yokels for quick and easy cash.

Like the Honda, the Escape's AWD system uses a computer - controlled clutch that predicts wheel spin before it happens, so even with all its prodigious power, the Escape won't squeal a tire on dry pavement.

The 2016 Cadillac CTS - V gets its current 640 hp and prodigious 630 lb - ft of torque from the same supercharged 6.2 - liter V - 8 used in the Corvette Z06, where it makes a neat 650 hp and as much torque.

The car still, of course, uses an internal - combustion engine that burns gasoline at a prodigious rate, although Ferrari says that emissions rival the California's for the company's lowest ever.

Using the new E-Class platform as its starting point, AMG makes improvements by optimizing vital drivetrain, suspension and braking components to complement the engine's prodigious power.

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.

From 1963, when he conceived the diagonal of May 25, 1963 (to Constantin Brancusi), a single gold, fluorescent lamp that hangs on a diagonal on the wall — a work which marks the artist's first use of fluorescent light alone, until his death in 1996, Flavin produced a singularly consistent and prodigious body of work that utilized commercially available fluorescent lamps to create installations of light and color.

While these notes might risk being pedantic and even academic, I believe they are relevant to the controversies around the confusing critical vocabulary used to describe Kline's prodigious late career paintings for which he is now famous.

Over the next eight years, she used them to jumpstart her prodigious imagination, making a total of 64 paintings.

He had recently begun making art, and was producing with prodigious speed, using pencil, crayon and charcoal to create silhouettes of people and animals, often in disturbing, ambiguous, frenetic situations.

But the film tries to celebrate Hofmann's prodigious output and originality using every misbegotten convention of art documentary in the book.

A prodigious storyteller of hard - hitting facts using image and text, Simon's research - oriented art practice has yielded such impactful bodies of work.

And while the miracle material has paved the way for many innovations, we can't stop mindlessly churning it out at prodigious rates for stupid uses — and in doing so we're changing the surface of the planet in ways that will be hard to reverse.

... mainly using his prodigious skills as a networker.

A migrant from Africa, he began telling me of his triumph in his deportation case and his experience sleeping outside on Charles Plaza — using words like «prodigious» naturally in his sentences, a tale far more eloquent than I could ever produce.

This prodigious oil use comes with significant costs to our climate, our health, and our pocketbooks — but clean vehicles can help.

Gore says he and Tipper regularly calculate their home and business energy use — including the carbon cost of his prodigious global travel.

But if it later transpires that the other side is using one of the giant firms, I immediately call my client back and tell them that the quote just doubled because of the prodigious amount of additional time I will be forced to spend on the file.