What would a dashing headmaster want with a worthless do-nothing when he has an academic prodigy like me? |
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Called variously a child prodigy, a boy wonder, and the wunderkind of science fiction, Delany began to write when he was quite young. |
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The highlight of the festivities was a magic show performed by child prodigy Chachawal Suwanchainmanee who is ranked number two in Thailand. |
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The harmonica prodigy kicks out a foot-stomping blues bonanza to break up the tender anecdotes. |
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He is an unassuming man, devoid of arrogance, a few years too old to be called a prodigy. |
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Having eclipsed the record of Anand to become the youngest grandmaster from the country, the chess prodigy is now gunning for greater glory. |
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Think early prodigy fuzzed sub bass mixed with a growling Stranglers sound. |
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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. |
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The story begins in Russia, where the young chess prodigy tore through distinguished grand master opposition like a sickle through soft grain. |
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He was a child prodigy who died young and yet he wrote a phenomenal amount of music. |
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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. |
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Child prodigy historians or sociologists would almost be a contradiction in terms. |
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Fear is an alien emotion to the prodigy, whose biggest asset is his scorching pace. |
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A young musical prodigy from Keighley is to showcase her talents to raise awareness of the devastating effects of cancer on teenagers. |
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These were the nights of packed halls, when grannies and grandads, uncles and aunts came to see their prodigy on the stage! |
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He gives concerts every Friday evening in the vineyard jazz club and I have yet to get out there to witness this prodigy. |
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As a young child, this prodigy sketched a portrait of his infant niece in the cradle, to the amazement of his family. |
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A young poet prodigy is basking in royal approval after receiving a message from the Queen. |
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Another year, another England prodigy with a sensational one-day entrance and an even more eye-catching hairstyle. |
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He's the former NFB prodigy animator who now lives in a homeless shelter and spends his days drinking suds at the Copa. |
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Parents drive their children to cram up for examinations and woe forbid, if the child is a prodigy. |
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His competition with the since-departed major was supportive and good-natured, a sign of maturity from an otherwise cocksure prodigy. |
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Certainly I was no technical prodigy, but I was comfortable around machinery. |
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In the local fashion world, designer Oscar Lawalata is something of a prodigy. |
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It is a fine example of the so-called prodigy buildings built by the richest and most intellectually advanced men. |
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At 79, she is a prodigy of youthful energy in hoisting a hefty bundle of old tricks. |
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The tennis prodigy offers a refreshingly impolite blast to his critics from the US Open before heading home. |
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An orphaned prodigy of the first manned expedition to Mars, Smith is raised by Martians before being returned to earth. |
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The young prodigy of 33 years also likes to handle humour with his berlingot lamps, who reproduce the sweeties of our childhood. |
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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. |
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Who's behind this existentialist comedy about a child prodigy wandering around his isolated and snowbound village? |
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From child prodigy to intelligence consultant the flight has been quick. |
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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. |
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Encouraged by her music teacher, the young prodigy soon went on to make a name for herself at regional fetes and local festivals and galas. |
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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. |
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The biopic recounts the story of André Mathieu, the Canadian prodigy who found international fame before his 10th birthday. |
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Then, at the tender age of four, the young prodigy turned into a budding dancer, excelling at jazz, tap and classical dance. |
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Adulated, hailed, praised, the child prodigy seemed to have everything to succeed. |
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Kluwe became a violin prodigy who could play by ear, and he developed an advanced vocabulary. |
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Telemann, who was a child prodigy, received his first music lessons early in his life. |
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Billy Elliot, the film about the ballet prodigy, was shot there – partly at the club. |
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There's no denying that his status as a human prodigy verbal acrobat did his head in. |
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They were those who had experienced the prodigy and proof of the power of the Son of God. |
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Frankenthaler was Color Field's prodigy and its single-minded glamour girl. |
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John Stranne is a brilliant man who at a very early age was destined to be a prodigy. |
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This performance of pianist will remain engraved in its biography as the global discovery of a new prodigy of the piano. |
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Rumours of a child prodigy circulated through the encampments and music circles. |
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It is submitted that even the most developed child prodigy should not be expected to match the years of experience of an adult. |
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Hugo von Hofmannsthal was a literary prodigy whom even his sharpest Viennese critics considered a great writer. |
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A child prodigy of trumpet at the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal, he got his start playing in Montreal dance bands in his teens. |
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Admired, acclaimed and praised, the child prodigy seemed to have everything it takes to succeed. |
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Mascagni remark this child prodigy with whom he gives, from the age of six years, a first concert. |
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Twelve-year-old dance prodigy Maddie Ziegler has suffered the wrath of Dance Moms tyrant Abby Lee Miller. |
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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. |
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After a dozen years with an elite Manhattan law firm, the prodigy recast himself as a banker in time to save New York's largest savings banks from ruin. |
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Her integrity had been questioned two years prior, when 60 Minutes sent a camera crew to document the child prodigy in action. |
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If Shostakovich cannot be portrayed as a child prodigy, he nevertheless had remarkable gifts as a performer. |
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The twit, Guy Clinch, is the unlucky father of Marmaduke, an 18-month-old prodigy of domestic mayhem. |
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The more research she did, the more fascinated she became with the complicated 18th century child prodigy, virtuoso, hyper-prolific genius and failed priest! |
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Internet prodigy and Reddit founder Aaron Swartz committed suicide on Friday. |
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A child prodigy, Sowmya had as her guru S. Ramanathan, a distinguished and learned teacher. |
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The six-year-old child prodigy Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was already applauded as such an attraction on Maria Theresia s lap. |
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Western cultures tend to praise those who make difficult tasks appear easy because of their own exceptional ability, as in the child prodigy phenomenon. |
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It's true that Kondo, just thirty years old, is a petite prodigy of tidying, possessed of a winsomely deferential and yet authoritative air. |
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A child prodigy, at the age of eleven Millais became the youngest student to enter the Royal Academy Schools. |
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He is that rarest of talents, a prodigy who is maturing into a real star. |
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The son of an obscure musician in a small provincial town, Beethoven struggled with the ambitions of his father to transform him into a famous, globe-trotting prodigy like Mozart. |
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Lord Yehudi Menuhin, the founder of the Gstaad classical music festival bearing his name, is still remembered as a world famous violin child prodigy, conductor and humanist. |
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Alain was surrounded by music at home and the talented youngster soon revealed himself to be something of a child prodigy, excelling at piano and dance lessons at the tender age of three. |
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Anggun is currently enjoying a second lease of life as a music star, having found fame and fortune the first time around as a child prodigy on the Indonesian music scene. |
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The former child prodigy went on to score a string of hits in the international charts and recorded several foreign-language versions of her album. |
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The many concert programs, posters and press clippings provide a wealth of information about his early career as a child prodigy and his subsequent development. |
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She began her distinguished career as a child prodigy in both piano and composition, and as an adult, became a renowned concert pianist, recorded prolifically and held teaching positions in over 20 institutions. |
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While Stravinsky's star ascended in Paris, in Russia, Prokofiev, a former child prodigy of the piano and now barely into his twenties, began to amaze audiences as a composer as well. |
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The model for La Chazé has never been identified, but we do know that La Ménetou evokes Françoise-Charlotte de Mennetoud, a child prodigy who played for the king at age nine. |
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A child prodigy, born into a family of Russian publishers, Alexander Glazunov studied theory and composition with Rimsky-Korsakov, who observed his progress daily. |
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Fessenden was born in Quebec, Canada, in 1866 and was apparently a child prodigy. At only 14 years old, he was granted a mathematics qualification from a college in the province. |
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Led by the marvellous approach work of 15-year-old prodigy Kara Lang and Carmelina Moscato as well as the goal-spree from markswoman supreme Christine Sinclair, the Canadians forced a whole nation to sit up and take notice. |
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The author is represented as an infant prodigy who performs much the same feats of sapience as are attributed to Jesus in some of the Infancy Gospels. |
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With a violin teacher as a father and a career as a violin-playing prodigy behind him, it was only natural that this young fellow would give vent to his composing talent in a few concertos for this string instrument. |
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This colt was a prodigy, with his broad handsome face, his huge appetite, a tearaway streak and a long open stride that left the rest of the field nowhere. |
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While some praise the tranquil fluidity of Koité's style, others laud these aerial flights of acceleration, although all are agreed that Mali's guitar prodigy is a first-class act. |
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Whiteside was the teenage prodigy who, some say, was indulged, by Atkinson and then, as the chief representative of the hard-living, underachieving bad old days, sold by Ferguson. |
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Landau was a mathematical prodigy and enfant terrible. |
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Ace striker, Dynamo Kiev hotshot Maksim Shatskikh, is still in his goal-scoring prime and striking prodigy Geynrikh has come of age, developing into the team's lethal weapon particularly when sent on as a super-sub. |
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Though the Canarinhas fleetingly hinted at doing justice to their country's weighty footballing reputation, thanks in large part to attacking prodigy Ketlen, without ever unleashing their full potential. |
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A devout promoter and the sole woman of Moroccan haute cuisine, this young prodigy takes her Kingdom's colours to the four corners of the globe where her influence is felt by even the greatest masters. |
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On the mountaintop where the Master is found, there too is Mary, the Universal Mother, She who was made woman in the Second Era so that she could perform the prodigy of the incarnation of the Divine Word. |
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She is a tennis prodigy, her game is extraterrestrial. |
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Hailed as a talented young prodigy by his admirers and dismissed as a Gainsbourg wannabe by his critics, Biolay is preparing to play his first Olympia on 28 October. |
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He then moved on to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was a noted prodigy, before moving back to Paris to finally become director of the school where we are now sitting. |
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Mr Wolfram, a British-born prodigy who published his first scientific paper at 15, won a MacArthur genius grant at 21 and then made a fortune in the software business, exercised total control over the project. |
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But for every prodigy who grows into a successful athlete, thousands of youths suffer physically or psychologically from being pushed to compete at a young age. |
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Poland produced its first winner in the form of 12-year-old prodigy Stanislaw Drzewiecki, second place went to Timo-Veikko Valve of Finland, while Russian pianist Nikolai Tokarev was placed third. |
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Locals won't get to see Saint-Etienne native Anaïs Laurendon or the 17 year-old prodigy from Lyon Caroline Garcia in action since both are in Australia. |
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Courtiers and other wealthy Elizabethans competed to build prodigy houses that proclaimed their status. |
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Eldar is a piano prodigy with an efflorescent style. |
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In contrast, MacDonald's Gibbie is not only a moral prodigy, but also a Mozart of religious sensibility. |
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One of her grandchildren is Derek Paravicini, who is a musical prodigy and autistic savant. |
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Tommy is recognised by Nora, Frank, and the media as a pinball prodigy, which is made even more impressive with his catatonic state. |
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Now the Welsh are looking for another jet-propelled performance from the 21-year-old Tottenham prodigy. |
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Somehow, however, this Supermom and professional prodigy squeaks through most dramatic reversals with a cheerful and optimistic mien. |
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The 17-year-old actress is shy cello prodigy Mia who's dating a garage band rocker called Adam. |
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The 24 year-old, who is currently on holiday in Barbados, was signed by Stretford for Proactive in 2002 as the teenage prodigy became the hottest property in football. |
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Owen Pallett, right, is a 29-year-old Torontonian, who plays violin and piano like a prodigy and sings like a choirboy who's grown up and lived a little. |
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On his third full-length record, Every Dog Has Its Day, prodigy producer and ultrapop songster Mitch Easter continues his search for the perfect hook. |
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This, called Richmond Palace and now completely lost, has been described as the first prodigy house, and was influential on other great houses for decades to come. |
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