How To Use Prodigy In A Sentence

Hassan in frequently going to sleep in one town, to awake in another far distant, but without the benighted Oriental's surprise at the transfer, the afrit who performed this prodigy being a steam-engine, and the magician it obeyed the human mind. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873
It is more than a decade since a coach and her young prodigy stood on a windswept Sheffield running track and envisaged the future. Times, Sunday Times
Less common, and more exciting, is the skill-prodigy, the ferrety junior ballerina who comes snorting out of his elite rabbit hole ready-made. Enjoying the fleeting thrill of fragile prodigies is a national habit | Barney Ronay
As a youngster growing up a small Mississippi town, Bob Dudley was a swimming prodigy with one of the speediest backstrokes in the state. New BP boss Bob Dudley 'doesn't need to fake his empathy for the Gulf coast'
Fear is an alien emotion to the prodigy, whose biggest asset is his scorching pace.

In those letters I discovered and fell in love with Nannerl, Mozart's sister, almost five years older than her brother, a prodigy in her own right, a marvelous singer and remarkable harpsichordist. George Heymont: The Shadow of Your Sib
It is a fine example of the so-called prodigy buildings built by the richest and most intellectually advanced men.
A child prodigy, he made his first professional tour as a pianist at the age of six.
“XIII” is produced by Prodigy Pictures and Cipango. NBC Announces New Schedule | the TV addict
From child prodigy to intelligence consultant the flight has been quick.
Orson Welles was a child prodigy, too, and of course he developed a sort of monomania which kind of baulked his career. Why VARK leaves me in the DARK « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog
The ‘little’ was the traditional honorific indicating that the kid was a prodigy.
A child prodigy, he wrote his first piece of music at the age of five and completed his first symphony at the age of eight.
Certainly I was no technical prodigy, but I was comfortable around machinery.
This was considered so marvellous a circumstance that the term peloria, from the Greek [Greek: pelôr], a prodigy, was applied to it. [ Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
Randle wasn't sure about the word prodigy, but "if being in the top one percentage in his age group in the planet would qualify, he's better than any five-year-old I've ever met, Canada.com Top Stories
The 16-year-old tennis prodigy is the youngest player ever to reach the Olympic finals.
The story begins in Russia, where the young chess prodigy tore through distinguished grand master opposition like a sickle through soft grain.
At 79, she is a prodigy of youthful energy in hoisting a hefty bundle of old tricks.
The mother of Andy Murray, Britain's teenage tennis sensation, has produced a guide to the pitfalls of being a ‘pushy parent’ when hothousing a sporting prodigy.
A child prodigy, Balling won a jazz contest in 1944 and formed his own small group.
He clearly has the brain, the skills and the uncompromising attitude to hair gel that is obligatory for the upcoming snooker prodigy. Times, Sunday Times
Contrast that to McIlroy's situation: the 21-year-old prodigy, awaiting his anointment as golf's great hope, was forced to sleep on the pressure of a big overnight lead. So Good, Even the Golfers Want a Replay
Outtrim, the Internet prodigy who cut the code for Hotdog in his loungeroom, was photographed in jeans, open-necked shirt and reversed baseball cap, the quintessential Web geek.
My little HDTV prodigy is all grown up now ... ... Anyone Watching Dead Like Me?
Called variously a child prodigy, a boy wonder, and the wunderkind of science fiction, Delany began to write when he was quite young.
Unlike the neoconservative apologists for the Republican attempt to rip off the poor, he is a genuinely original thinker, as well as a prodigy of learning.
A young poet prodigy is basking in royal approval after receiving a message from the Queen.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart—that is to say, a self-contained but slightly smug little kid called Wolfie—plays second fiddle to his older sister in René Féret's beguiling celebration, in French with English subtitles, of the family's other prodigy. 'One Day': A Stutter-Stop Affair to Forget
A former prodigy establishes herself as a mature virtuoso. Times, Sunday Times
My friend now tells me it's not that the setup wouldn't run but that prodigy is not connecting after rebooting. Windows Vista and Telmex Prodigy
International rugby comes easily to this prodigy. Times, Sunday Times
A childhood prodigy, Nino Rota began as a conductor and composer of symphonies, ballets and operas, before writing scores for a large number of Italian and, later, Hollywood movies.
If darts these days is going the way of the slimmer figure, no one has notified this young prodigy. Times, Sunday Times
Prodigy's 1 meg is from 64k up to 1 meg their 2 meg they offer from 256k up to 2 meg on their 4 meg they do offer from 2048 up to 4 meg but the cost on that is almost $500.00 dollars a month. Prodigy
He's the former NFB prodigy animator who now lives in a homeless shelter and spends his days drinking suds at the Copa.
She was a colossus in all her limbs - a marvel of strength and a prodigy of clumsiness.
Nash is a young math prodigy who shows up at Princeton with the amazing ability to see numbers in a most visual way, handy for storyshowing in this age of effects.
He is an unassuming man, devoid of arrogance, a few years too old to be called a prodigy.
He watched his would-be freshman prodigy Alton Ford make just one of two free throws at the other end.
Maybe so, but when LeBron entered the ninth grade at his new school, St Vincent-St Mary, at least one international sports agency inquired about the young basketball prodigy who was becoming the talk of Akron.
Prodigy has just begun using members as forum co-hosts; they get preferred rates but no pay, unlike CompuServe.
Fischer, a child prodigy became the United States' only world chess champion by defeating Soviet masters, but refused to defend his title and relinquished it to the Soviet champion Anatoly Karpov in 1975. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
Mozart was a musical prodigy.
Rural England circa 1950 is the setting for the lighter-toned "A Red Herring Without Mustard" Delacorte, 399 pages, $23 , the third mystery by Alan Bradley to be narrated by 11-year-old Flavia de Luce: chemistry prodigy, amateur detective and mischievous bane of her two elder sisters and their distracted, upper-class, philatelic, cash-strapped widower-father. Murder by the Numbers
I'm a child prodigy, and I've worked with the University of Amsterdam's Psychology department (quite some years ago) to test and digitize / webify their IQ-tests. Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
It is more than a decade since a coach and her young prodigy stood on a windswept Sheffield running track and envisaged the future. Times, Sunday Times
The 16-year-old tennis prodigy is the youngest player ever to reach the Olympic finals.
The Prodigy" brutalized "Rush" for much of the first round, but then he stormed back and hung on in the final two frames to get the winning nod. UFC blog for UFC news, results, videos, rumors, fights, pics and tickets -- MMAmania.com
This analysis seems plausible in theory, but it ought to be noted that the most popular person to be beatified in recent years is the stigmatic Padre Pio, who was very much an eccentric, an ascetic, and a prodigy.
That child prodigy began to compose at the age of five.
Pete Waterman had once promised his prodigy that one day he would transform her into the Madonna.
If I were to measure my deserts by people's remembrance of me, I should be a prodigy of intolerability. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete
Mozart was a child prodigy
My parents were a bit like those tennis parents who start drilling their kids on the court when theyre about two, with the idea of creating some kind of inhumanly precocious tennis prodigy. Lev Grossman - An interview with author
Child prodigy historians or sociologists would almost be a contradiction in terms.
Objective To analyze the coefficient of variation(CV) by measurements of bone mineral density with the dual-energy X-ray absorptiometer(DXA, Prodigy).
It is more than a decade since a coach and her young prodigy stood on a windswept Sheffield running track and envisaged the future. Times, Sunday Times
In the local fashion world, designer Oscar Lawalata is something of a prodigy.
Twenty-year-old singer/songwriter Paolo Nutini, a musical prodigy, is nothing short of sensational. Paolo Nutini – “These Streets” on Atlantic Records
A prodigy and a polymath, he first came to notice as ‘the bad boy of music’ in the Twenties Paris avant-garde, associated with Pound.
she is a chess prodigy
An annoying, smartass teenager or an irritating child prodigy is usually involved or you end up falling for the hostage and things just get too damn complicated. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
He is an unassuming man, devoid of arrogance, a few years too old to be called a prodigy.
Having eclipsed the record of Anand to become the youngest grandmaster from the country, the chess prodigy is now gunning for greater glory.
Gargantua, that is no reason why other nations should believe in him; that if Gargantua had really performed one single prodigy out of the many attributed to him, the whole world would have resounded with it, all records would have noticed it, and a hundred monuments would have attested it. A Philosophical Dictionary
Bong Ra's ‘Archie Bunker Disciples’ takes The Prodigy's ‘Firestarter’ by the scruff of the neck and feeds it into several hundred distortion pedals.
Think early prodigy fuzzed sub bass mixed with a growling Stranglers sound.
Both opine on their parents in categorical terms: neither set understands its prodigy. Mommy Queerest Meets A Serious Man « The Blog at 16th and Q
Another year, another England prodigy with a sensational one-day entrance and an even more eye-catching hairstyle.
Western cultures tend to praise those who make difficult tasks appear easy because of their own exceptional ability, as in the child prodigy phenomenon.
The grand duke was delighted and bestowed the favor of the court on the prodigy.
The more research she did, the more fascinated she became with the complicated 18th century child prodigy, virtuoso, hyper-prolific genius and failed priest!
Hailed as a prodigy in the US, critics have frothed over her ability to switch from elegant jazz to rap to complex satirical songs worthy of Sondheim.
Almost overnight, the prodigy is brought down to size. GreenCine Daily: Park City Dispatch. 11.
What began as a hobby, took a 15-year-old prodigy rock critic/journalist around America reporting on the up and coming fictional rock band Stillwater.
But on the Latin battlefields he is not a man, but a fearful prodigy.
Esquivel, a self-taught child prodigy, performed on radio as a pre-teen, and led a 27-piece orchestra for Mexico City's top radio station by his early 20s. Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume 189-Rewind
A teenage prodigy, he exerted a considerable influence on a generation of British guitar players. Times, Sunday Times
He was no such prodigy as a cricketer, but made the Warwickshire side as an attacking bat and top-class fielder.
Considered a child prodigy, he went to Harvard and graduated, then he got his PhD in mathematics from the University of Michigan. Five Things To Remember on May 4th | myFiveBest
The former teenage prodigy has grown up and life is good again. The Sun
A festival of nine days was instituted publicly by the Romans also on account of the same prodigy, either in obedience to the heavenly voice sent from the Alban mount, (for that too is stated,) or by the advice of the aruspices. The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08
Objective To analyze the coefficient of variation(CV) by measurements of bone mineral density with the dual-energy X-ray absorptiometer(DXA, Prodigy).
The 16-year-old tennis prodigy is the youngest player ever to reach the Olympic finals.
His competition with the since-departed major was supportive and good-natured, a sign of maturity from an otherwise cocksure prodigy.
It is the same one that has defined his own 23-year career, a humility in excelsis that has allowed him to weather an unparalleled level of scrutiny and adulation and still seem the unpretentiously modest child prodigy who scored his maiden first-class century at the age of 15. Sachin Tendulkar's Yorkshire roots helped make him a master of modesty
The young prodigy is part of the Gaminglessons. com group, where struggling gamers are able to pay upto $65 for one of 12 instructors to teach them the in and outs of Halo 2. EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Boy Genious at Halo 2
That prodigy was central to the other notably unpersuasive statement currently reverberating in golf. Times, Sunday Times
A child prodigy, he made his first professional tour as a pianist at the age of six.
Can't Post | Private Reply prodigy is asking me to enter and re-enter my sign on name and password with no result. Out look Express down again
The burly snarler from Croxteth is no longer a teenage prodigy. What has Wayne Rooney got in common with a celebrated giant panda?
Occasionally, Mr. Cumming confabbed with his co-judges Jesse Schenker , the culinary prodigy behind the restaurant Recette, Grant Shaffer , a graphic artist, and Lauren Nowell , the director of publicity for Rachael Ray. A Loft Where Salads Go Head to Head
These inventions awaited that other great dynastic prodigy, J S Bach, after his birth in 1685.
The prodigy played Carnegie Hall at the age of 16
He was a tennis prodigy and by 16 had taken coaching exams and opened his own tennis academy. Times, Sunday Times
The harmonica prodigy kicks out a foot-stomping blues bonanza to break up the tender anecdotes.
He was a child prodigy who went to Leipzig university at the age of 11, published his first almanac at the age of 12 and at age 15 was casting horoscopes for the Hapsburg Emperor Frederick III.
The article in yesterday's Indy linked above says he's one of the country's foremost young performers, previously a child prodigy and now 'the David Beckham of the violin' hmm, given the photo I'd say that's being unfair - he's actually rather dishier, n'est-ce-pas? Had a good trip recently?
It is more than a decade since a coach and her young prodigy stood on a windswept Sheffield running track and envisaged the future. Times, Sunday Times
The 16-year-old tennis prodigy is the youngest player ever to reach the Olympic finals.
But that willingness to push beyond the usual boundaries of electronic is precisely why Prodigy seems so, well, prodigious.
As a pianist he was a child prodigy who studied with Mozart, and was well-established in Vienna well before Beethoven arrived to sweep all before him, an emergent colossus bestriding the classical-romantic divide.
She has been labeled a child prodigy and anyone will know why the label befits this young star from the moment she starts to sing. WN.com - Articles related to Improving Philippine education
Parents drive their children to cram up for examinations and woe forbid, if the child is a prodigy.
Child prodigy Glenn Gould and his well-tempered tail-wagger Archive 2009-04-01
Against this backdrop is a noir-style murder mystery in which a rogue cop investigates the killing of a heroin-addicted chess prodigy who might be the messiah. NEW COEN BROTHERS PROJECT
The 16-year-old tennis prodigy is the youngest player ever to reach the Olympic finals.
A literary prodigy like him is just an exception.
This is the static prodigy phenomenon, where early gains ossify into a state of frowning and manfully borne stasis, a condition known in sports science as Huddlestone's Mooch. Enjoying the fleeting thrill of fragile prodigies is a national habit | Barney Ronay
He gives concerts every Friday evening in the vineyard jazz club and I have yet to get out there to witness this prodigy.
These were the nights of packed halls, when grannies and grandads, uncles and aunts came to see their prodigy on the stage!
A young musical prodigy from Keighley is to showcase her talents to raise awareness of the devastating effects of cancer on teenagers.
Thick-skinned, he fails to heed their hints about getting a replacement, even when they turn up at his house with Tom, a hot young guitar prodigy.
Beckoning the boss, the customer asks where he found this prodigy.
Chirac praised the bridge's designers and builders for creating ‘a prodigy of art and architecture a new emblem of French civil engineering’.
But that willingness to push beyond the usual boundaries of electronic is precisely why Prodigy seems so, well, prodigious.
Kiram Kir-Zaki may be considered a mechanist prodigy among his own people, but when he becomes the first Haldiim ever admitted to the prestigious Sagrada Academy, he is thrown into a world where power, superstition and swordplay outweigh even the most scholarly of achievements. Reviews of fantasy and science fiction books
He was a child prodigy who died young and yet he wrote a phenomenal amount of music.
Something of a prodigy, he quit high school at 17.
A child prodigy, Balling won a jazz contest in 1944 and formed his own small group.
He was at the defining moment of a career that had taken him from teenage prodigy to the verge of golfing immortality. Times, Sunday Times
The tennis prodigy offers a refreshingly impolite blast to his critics from the US Open before heading home.
As a young child, this prodigy sketched a portrait of his infant niece in the cradle, to the amazement of his family.
But that willingness to push beyond the usual boundaries of electronic is precisely why Prodigy seems so, well, prodigious.
By age 7, Nikolay was already recognized as a young chess prodigy, and at age 11, he was invited to one of the best chess schools in the Ukraine.
Van Schurman was a prodigy of linguistic skills.
The senior Gretzky still lives in the house where Wayne grew up; a swimming pool has replaced the famous backyard practice rink that Walter built for his young prodigy years ago.
Meet the child prodigy Chiyo, the animal-loving Sakaki, the spacey out-of-towner Osaka, the straight-laced Yomi and her best friend Tomo, and the sports-loving Kagura throughout their high school lives. 07 « October « 2009 « The Manga Curmudgeon
Dave buddy, I am going with the crowd on this one ... when your grandkids visit you they are going to ask why you have a basset hound/chow cross painted on your leg ... just breed her and enjoy the prodigy. Would You Get a Tattoo of Your Gun Dog?
He was the young prodigy who left to play for the neighbouring rivals. Times, Sunday Times
She was a child prodigy, giving concerts before she was a teenager.
He was the button-down musical prodigy from a German Jewish family whose father was a cantor. Making 'LoveMusik' with Weill and Lenya
Mozart was an infant prodigy .
About the middle of the last age, an inveterate ulcer was touched and cured by a holy prickle of the holy crown: 53 the prodigy is attested by the most pious and enlightened Christians of France; nor will the fact be easily disproved, except by those who are armed with a general antidote against religious credulity. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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