| The Venetian comedy also includes a pair of social parasites living off the prodigality of the extravagant young couple. |
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| Nature is prodigal in its approach to fertility, but we no longer need that prodigality. |
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| It would be some time before it bloomed and lit up the cliffs with its yellow-flowered prodigality again. |
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| This pleasing prodigality would be easier to browse if the columns of text were not so close-set. |
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| They may have asked why they should rescue Dubai from the consequences of its own prodigality. |
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| Not only was Mozart the first great composer of piano concertos, but the sheer prodigality invites disbelief. |
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| Such a prodigality with the lives of decorated, irreplaceable veteran troops and leaders was it prudent? |
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| Lucy Moore writes with a glad eye of the prodigality of unrestrained royalty, the full-blown excess that in the end wearied the more realistic Queen Victoria. |
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| There was an exuberance or prodigality of sweetness about the mere act of living which our race finds it difficult not to associate with forbidden and extravagant actions. |
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| Although William Beckford wrote a Gothick romance as reckless and immoderate as himself, his life of epic prodigality would arrest attention had he not written a single line. |
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| Freehandedness is a virtue concerned with the getting and the giving of wealth, especially the latter, and is the mean between the two vices of prodigality and tightfistedness. |
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| He preached austerity, yet practised prodigality, doling out favours and privileges with flair and precision. |
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| Their candidates for governor in California and Florida both hold narrow leads in the polls, despite the prodigality of their millionaire opponents. |
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| He was seen as a man of state who was torn between loyalty to his king and loyalty to his compatriots, who were incensed by the German queen's prodigality and the growing influence of her entourage. |
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| The Code also relegated such women to the category of persons deprived of the power to independently exercise their civil rights, along with minors and those banned from doing so for reasons of insanity or prodigality. |
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| Modern man uses it with increasing eagerness and thoughtless prodigality for the conquest of the world and, like the mythical gold of the Rhine, coal is to-day the greatest source of energy and wealth. |
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| He wonders at my extreme prodigality of credit, and searedness of conscience, in citing an epistle so convicted by Bellarmine! |
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| Which could be the sense of this action, this abounding of sound, other than an answer to the amazement to the luxurious prodigality and the sumptuousness of Matter. |
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| It may seem at times as if no filmmaker was as prodigal with his own genius as was Orson Welles though the difference between prodigality and liberality is merely in the quality of the reception. |
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