Sentences with phrase «such prodigious»

With such a prodigious heritage, we are happy to see that Team Ninja decided to take the reins of the project and turn it into a gaming title.
Pro: «Morano — merry motor - mouth... non-stop, breathless delivery... I have seldom, aside from university professors, found anyone with such a prodigious memory» — May 2010
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.
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.
Peak torque registers at 6,500 rpms, but with such a prodigious power band, it's worth every decibel to hold gears that extra fraction of a second.
Our next step is to study these objects in greater detail and figure out exactly how and why they are forming stars at such prodigious rates.»
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.
The present writer is nothing of a philosopher, he has not understood the System, does not know whether it actually exists, whether it is completed; already he has enough for his weak head in the thought of what a prodigious head everybody in our day must have, since everybody has such a prodigious thought.
To make such a prodigious venture a going operation, Migne devised a kind of clerical «Book - of - the - every - other - Month Club,» in which the French clergy were encouraged through the Catholic press to subscribe to each volume as it came off the presses.
Prolific would be a fair word to use, among others, to describe such prodigious output.

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.
World War Z. For such a small country, Malta's film credits sure are prodigious, which explains why the London Times once dubbed it, «the Mediterranean's mini-Hollywood.»
The cumulative weight of Bultmann's prodigious career, focused into the concrete programme of demythologizing, burst like a meteor into the void caused by the attrition of the Nazi ideology, the war and post-war collapse, and the passing of such leading New Testament scholars as Lietzmann, Büchsel, Behm, von Soden, Lohmeyer, Kittel, Dibelius, and Schniewind.
We do well to remember that the freedoms we tend to take for granted are, in disputes all around the country, being defended daily by organizations such as the Rutherford Institute, the Christian Legal Society, the Catholic League for Civil and Religious Liberty, Dean Kelley of New York and William Ball of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (each of whose prodigious energy is tantamount to that of an organization).
Browning's prodigious research shows that, while the virulent hostility to Jews was a constant, the Third Reich settled on systematic extermination along the lines of Auschwitz and other death camps only after other possibilities, such as the massive expulsion of Jews, were foreclosed, and the feasibility of eliminating Jews, gypsies, and political enemies in conquered Soviet territories had been demonstrated.
Paravicini is a prodigious savant — someone with a dazzling talent in one or two fields, normally music, maths, art or memory, but who also has some kind of a disability, such as autism.
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).
Soviet steel makers reported non-stop prodigious growth in steel production for decades when facing such incentives as well.
A day earlier and 60 - plus years later, no such protestations emerged from under the hood of the new 2016 Rolls - Royce Dawn I piloted, only prodigious power and muted ferocity.
It's the way the Focus packages its power on the move that gives it such remarkable real - world pace, making so much of its prodigious torque available for so much of the time that the sheer dimension of its in - gear acceleration from less than 2000rpm — especially in 4th, 5th and 6th — is often surreal.
The V10 is bolted to a quick - shifting six - speed dual - clutch transmission driving the rear wheels, while a revised version of Honda's Super Handling AWD system generates the car's prodigious grip levels, enabling such a quick «Ring lap time.
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.
Although Japanese role - playing games are habitually criticized for having derivative battle mechanics, verbose dialog, and trope - filled plots, the genre flaunts one prodigious advantage; no other type of game routinely offers such a rich depiction of interpersonal relationships.
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.
Even the clunkers, such as a ghastly pileup of cast aluminum painted with wavy, tie - dye patterns, exhibit prodigious, indeed Melvillian, ambition.
While Brainard's early appropriation of commercial language and symbols placed him alongside artists such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, Brainard's prodigious stylistic diversity separated his work from that of other Pop artists.
Of course, to provide a comprehensive overview on such a vast theme over a so long period of time is too much even for the prodigious capacity of the Centre Pompidou.
Although primarily known for his sculpture, Calder was a prodigious artist with a restless creative spirit, whose diverse practice included painting and printmaking, miniatures (such as his famous Cirque Calder), children's book illustrations, theater set design, jewelry design, tapestries and rugs, and political posters.
A prodigious storyteller of hard - hitting facts using image and text, Simon's research - oriented art practice has yielded such impactful bodies of work.
Consequently, Salt's solo exhibition at the Ace Gallery not only reveals her prodigious aptitude at flawlessly laying down color in the grand tradition of both wall and Color Field painting, but also her unique place in such schools of the mundane.
Bas is equally prodigious in his experimentation with various techniques and materials — such as airbrush, wood block, acrylic, gold leaf, and house paint — as he is with his reference points.
In creating within such constraints, as he has done here once again, the artist allows his prodigious visual imagination and his idiosyncratic, confident and highly skillful treatment of paint to occupy center stage.
Even if these few were prodigious writers of peer reviewed papers they still might not come up in a survey such as Oreskes.
When you base your robust disbelief of the link between recent prodigious crop failures and realized warming on what you call the «relatively minor» global average mean anomaly you are demonstrating either less than full appreciation of what nine tenths of a degree could mean for regional weather over shorter periods, or what such weather could mean for agriculture.
Law students are being pumped out of law schools at prodigious rates (far in excess of population growth) such that hundreds of them every year can not find articling jobs.
This tablet has prodigious power and if you are looking for something that can take over from average laptop usage (such as writing, surfing, media playing, art...
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