When they do study sheer cognitive prowess, many researchers have been impressed with how similarly young boys and girls master new tasks.

In London last summer, ballet critics reacted with general acclaim to "The Golden Age" and to Mr. Mukhamedov's electricity, emotion and sheer physical prowess.

One by one, two men had vanished, prey to some unseen horror which by its sheer invisible prowess outmatched the devil monsters already reported.

Or by deed, by strength and by sheer physical prowess.

Mentally, he was brilliant, the match for Tenser and Bigby in sheer intellectual prowess, but some of his ideas were a few tankards short of a keg.

Even aside from issues of sheer prowess, however, Mr. Shehori is a very different kind of pianist from Horowitz.

In terms of sheer brute prowess, this off-road vehicle is as macho as they come: it can pull its trailer up a 45-degree grade by engaging a high-performance drive system that powers all eight wheels.

Ms. Stroman, for her part, was startled (and delighted) by the dancers' sheer athletic prowess.

Some critics have, while acknowledging his sheer musical prowess, felt a lack in the area of interpretive interest and emotional warmth; a Maazel performance can be shiny and cool.

The challenge the work station presents I.B.M. goes deeper than proving sheer technical prowess.