(n.) Something extraordinary, or out of the usual course of nature, from which omens are drawn; a portent; as, eclipses and meteors were anciently deemed prodigies.
(n.) Anything so extraordinary as to excite wonder or astonishment; a marvel; as, a prodigy of learning.
(n.) A production out of ordinary course of nature; an abnormal development; a monster.
Example Sentences:
(1) Radio remained hostile to electronic dance music unless it had a conventional pop song structure and vocals (as with the Prodigy's punk-rave or Madonna's coopting of trance on Ray of Light ).
(2) Although a weak correlation between urinary calcium excretion and stone number was observed, the cause for prodigious stone formation could not be explained.
(3) He has classical roots in common with Michael Clark, the Royal Ballet prodigy turned punk choreographer.
(4) Jack Charlton, maintaining the remarkable standard of his World Cup performances, had to intervene with a prodigious sweeping tackle on the ground to get them out of trouble.
(5) The periplasmic C proteins (C1 and C2 isoelectric forms) were produced in prodigious quantities from the cloned strains.
(6) Rivals and analysts underestimated his single-minded determination and prodigious work ethic, and overlooked an unofficial campaign that began years before his name went on the ballot papers for the second time.
(7) He kept up a prodigious work rate even when ill. At the height of his activity he was simultaneously writing about politics, wine and television as well as radio programmes, a weekly diary and a stream of books.
(8) Winner of the National Book Award in 1993, Vidal's literary output was prodigious, with more than 20 novels, including the transsexual satire Myra Breckinridge, the black comedy Duluth, and a series of historical fiction charting the history of the United States.
(9) It is suggested that in its myriad roles, ranging from cooking to the prodigious function of sacrifice in human history and psychology, the decisive position of the role of fire in the emergence and development of homo sapiens may conceivably include a significant "overdetermining" position among the multiple elements conditioning the appearance of human speech and language.
(10) They were quick to the ball, strong in the tackle and their workload was prodigious.
(11) The two-year-old artificial intelligence startup was founded by former child chess prodigy and neuroscientist Demis Hassabis alongside Shane Legg and Mustafa Suleyman.
(12) In case his writers are wondering what word to use instead, he offers a "handy list of synonyms" that includes "huge", "prodigious", "elephantine" and the very adult Swiftian term "Brobdingnagian".
(13) Its prodigious collection of print, audiovisual, and electronic information; its imaginative research projects; its excellent outreach program; and its innovative services and products are indispensable to all practicing health professionals, scientists, and medical educators, as well as to journalists, government officials, and others.
(14) Season two crafted complex characters racked with existential ambivalence – heroines marked for the abyss, fragile, flammable outcasts and desolate prodigies, all of whose private pain was as palpable as the crimson bloodbath head witch Evelyn Poole soaks in.
(15) The oral cavity is populated by a prodigious microbial flora that exhibits a unique successional colonization of enamel and subgingival root surfaces.
(16) The only greenery more impressive than the massive trees are the prodigious mosses and lichens hanging from every branch.
(17) Bilic’s side were the more threatening team as the first half wore on and their prodigious work-rate, typified by Mark Noble chasing down a lost cause and winning a corner from James Milner, was impressive.
(18) But Google's acquisition of DeepMind Technologies earlier this year, founded by a former child chess prodigy only two years ago, will be followed by more big-money transactions involving home-grown tech companies.
(19) But the Brits announcement has not come in isolation; it follows the collapse in the last two years of three dance music magazines (Muzik, Ministry and Jockey Slut), the news that London superclub Ministry of Sound's revenues have fallen by more than a third since 2001, and, most recently, the commercial failure of the latest albums from Britain's two biggest dance acts, Fatboy Slim and the Prodigy.
(20) Freud is notable not only for his prodigious output - at any one time he will be at work on five or six paintings and, perhaps, an etching - but for the intense way in which he scrutinises his subjects (he is adamant that they 'affect the air around them', so his sitters must be present even when only the background is being painted).
Virtuoso
Definition:
(n.) One devoted to virtu; one skilled in the fine arts, in antiquities, and the like; a collector or ardent admirer of curiosities, etc.
(n.) A performer on some instrument, as the violin or the piano, who excels in the technical part of his art; a brilliant concert player.
Example Sentences:
(1) Or even that little-known film called Pulp Fiction, in which Christopher Walken gives a virtuoso performance as Captain Koons, with a deranged rant about hiding his watch from evil "yellow slopes".
(2) It is, said publisher Little, Brown, "a virtuoso performance whose soaring riffs on the inexhaustible marvel of human perception and rage against the dying of the light will stand among Iain Banks' greatest work".
(3) Britain’s consul in Johannesburg, RJ Miller, accused Vine of bumptiousness and a “virtuoso display of name-dropping, from the prime minister downwards”.
(4) His New York is a far scruffier place, with the grimy, old, Midnight Cowboy NYC rubbing against the gentrified Upper East Side, best expressed in an ordeal of a scene where Louie witnesses a virtuoso performance by a violinist while, behind the performer, an obese homeless man proceeds to disrobe and start washing himself with a bottle of filthy water.
(5) It was a virtuoso goal, notes from a Stradivarius when everyone else seemed to be stuck in an oompah band.
(6) Ravi Shankar was a virtuoso sitar player long before he became a cult for a drug-fuelled hippy generation that found the exquisite music he plucked from the strings a perfect accompaniment to the consumption of marijuana and LSD.
(7) Fonteyn was cast first for the ballerina role but it was Shearer, who followed her, whose speed of footwork came nearest to capturing Balanchine's virtuoso choreography.
(8) Eleanor Catton's life swerved off its expected course almost exactly 12 hours before our meeting, the morning after her novel The Luminaries – a virtuoso work set amid the 1860s New Zealand gold rush – was named the winner of the 2013 Man Booker prize .
(9) He is one of the virtuosos: he was disciplined, and lived and breathed what he did from a very early age.
(10) Ambitious, serious, and much superior to the average ministerial platform speech, it may have lacked the virtuoso egotism of Boris Johnson’s address soon afterwards in the same hall.
(11) Chet Atkins, who has died of cancer aged 77, was the first virtuoso guitarist in country music and a record producer largely responsible for devising the Nashville Sound, which put a new polish on country music in the 60s and 70s.
(12) George Osborne moves to peg public finances to Victorian values Read more They also have one or two other things in common: • Like Osborne, who has masterfully dramatised the state of the UK’s public finances for political purposes – including a suggestion in 2010 that the UK was one step away from a Greek-style crisis – Micawber is also a virtuoso at hamming up the perils of his situation and swiftly turning them to his advantage.
(13) Panahi, the virtuoso neo-realist who won a prize at Cannes for his debut, The White Balloon, in 1995, and, at 50, now has one of the most sagging mantlepieces in cinema, is currently stuck in Iran, awaiting the verdict of his appeal against a six-year prison term, and 20-year-ban on film-making, talking to the press and travelling abroad.
(14) Central to the novel (A Void in Gilbert Adair's virtuoso translation) is the idea of disappearance and, implicitly, the Holocaust.
(15) They were very different gigs – it was jazz to the fore on the One Nite Alone… tour in 2002, then all the arena hits in 2007, and finally, the electric 3rdeyegirl lineup in 2014ect – but these gigs, while utterly different, were all the same, ultimately: flowing, virtuoso performances by a man who seemed made of all music, able to switch with a smirk between high-kicking soul revue and blues metal, his sky-scraping Eig80s pop hits and funk deep cuts.
(16) These early twentysomething virtuosos are one of the most exciting live groups out there, flipping the jazz idiom on its head and effortlessly blazing through genres including soul, funk, dub, bass music and more.
(17) Because less than a third of hypnotic virtuosos responded literally, our results strongly refuted Erickson's assertion that literalism is a cognitive feature of hypnosis.
(18) The huge block of marble was a virtuoso piece of carving, its weight carried on just five points where the statues meet the base.
(19) In the decisive group meeting with Denmark, he pulled the strings like a virtuoso, arrowing in a fabulous free-kick and preparing the killer blow with a Cruyff turn and pass of feathered delicacy.
(20) He is skilled, witty, energetic and performs like a virtuoso," said Bellow at the time.