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Example sentences for: prodigious
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They really have no idea how exactly life began, or whether its emergence was in some sense inevitable or simply a prodigious bit of good fortune.
Praise goes to Georges Du Fresne, the child actor "who seems, in some prodigious way, to understand" his character (Stanley Kauffmann, the New Republic ). Dissenting, the Wall Street Journal 's Joe Morgenstern says the movie is cloying, "cheerful nonsense" and that its creators don't realize that "this kid is profoundly troubled."
While it is acknowledged that statistics can make allowance for using samples instead of an entire corpus for analysis, the prodigious quantity of lemmata (that's the plural of lemma ) requires an incredibly large sample.
The church has had some colorful preachers too from patriot Sam Parker to Phillips Brooks, author of O Little Town of Bethlehem, and a prodigious gourmet, who also loved the track, billiards, and fly-fishing.
The prodigious amount of published literature about La Llorona, by folklorists, literary critics, anthropologists, and feminist writers, attests to the complexity of the legend.