Sentences with phrase «something of a prodigy»

The youngest ever player to captain a side in the Champions League, it's quite evident that Rúben Neves has been groomed to be something of a prodigy since he first made his way through the Porto academy, debuting at the tender age of 17 and becoming the youngest ever goalscorer for the club he holds dearest to his heart.

Once his original owner reluctantly harnessed him up, he was surprised to find that Togo was something of a prodigy when it came to leading a dog team.

Not exact matches

I have no intention of disparaging this; but to be able to lose one's reason, and therefore the whole of finiteness of which reason is the broker, and then by virtue of the absurd to gain precisely the same finiteness — that appalls my soul, but I do not for this cause say that it is something lowly, since on the contrary it is the only prodigy.

One couldn't help but feel caught up in something big and cohesive, held intact by the youthful stringiness of the field: most of the pioneers are still alive and kicking with webs of prodigy scientists succeeding and spreading the worm gospel.

With enough money and connections at her disposal to really give Mary a chance to make something of herself, Evelyn takes legal action against her son Frank so she can have custody of the prodigy.

The family dramedy stars Ben Stiller as a middle - aged man working for a non-profit who suffers something of a mid-life crisis as his musical prodigy son (Austin Abrams) begins applying to colleges to start his own life.

Dunbar was a prodigy, but even she had something to learn from the moral of her own story.

As I said before, I «ve been trying to write something since I was a little kid; I wanted to be a sort of writing prodigy, a published author while in Junior High School, but that never happened.

Richard Diebenkorn was something of a painting prodigy, having his first major exhibition at the Legion of Honor, while attending The California School of Fine Arts (now the San Francisco...

NAME: @nielskantor AFFILIATION: Los Angeles dealer and collector WHY FOLLOW: Opening his own gallery when he was only 25, Niels Kantor has always been something of an art prodigy, and no wonder — his father, Paul Kantor, was a forward - thinking L.A. dealer and collector whose galleries Motherwell, Rothko, de Kooning, and other leading postwar artists.