But she had been a literary prodigy in her youth so tinges of the glory remained.
Both accounts try to determine the importance of nature versus environment in producing musical prodigies.
The child prodigy who's no longer a child.
For the participant who had been 'somewhat of a child prodigy' there was the challenge of being 'back in the pot' with everyone else.
The studio audience murmurs that no one can outdo such a prodigy of memory.
Perhaps the otherwise puzzling phenomena of child prodigies (where, say, musical skills are manifest at very young ages) are cases of this sort.
The form of this prodigy has, therefore, looked much like an icicle.
He was no infant prodigy and had composed very little until his late teens.