On the business side, Sills proved to be a godsend to the company, showing a prodigious gift for fund-raising.

But his prodigious pianistic gifts soon became apparent.

It was a case of a prodigious gift well nurtured.

The climb to the top was not always easy, despite his prodigious technical gifts.

Goya's prodigious artistic gifts and ego always seem subsumed within a more urgent project that was partly forced on him by events.

It's food for thought, but it goes down easy thanks to Hicken's prodigious gift for melody.

Take Mike Tyson, who, like Strawberry, has prodigious physical gifts.

Mr. Johnson has prodigious musical gifts, good looks and a warm, winning personality.

You can hardly conceive what prodigious, uncommon gifts the God of Heaven had bestowed on that man.

But the book is also - this must be stressed - splendidly written, driven by this writer's prodigious narrative gifts.