What is "phenomenal"

Usage examples of "phenomenal".

Though the Beatles had not yet broken in the USA, their popularity in Britain was phenomenal and the idea of a quick exploitation movie, coupled with a soundtrack album, made considerable economic sense to them.

It does not, I should suppose, lie in the way of The Century, whose general audience on both sides of the Atlantic takes only an amused interest in this singular revival of a traditional literary animosity--an anachronism in these tolerant days when the reading world cares less and less about the origin of literature that pleases it--it does not lie in the way of The Century to do more than report this phenomenal literary effervescence.

The huge cloud of humid air that hung perpetually above the Astel Marshes lapped against the eastern slopes of the Mountains of Zemoch, unloosing phenomenal snowfalls that buried the forests and clogged the passes.

In nature the cause endures under all evanescent changes, and survives all phenomenal beginnings and endings: so in spirit the causal personality, if there be one, may outlast all the shifting currents of the outward phenomena in endless persistence.

The professors of physical science, thoroughly familiarized with things which combine and dissolve, often come to fancy that everything is phenomenal and evanescent, that there is no immaterial substance, that spirit is not entity but process, that thought and feeling and will are mere transient functions of transient matter.

Frank Krimmer must control a network of Israeli agents: the information he could supply was phenomenal.

His purpose was to avoid the beguilements of the phenomenal and unabiding world, so that the soul might be free to attain knowledge of the only certitude and truth: God was the sole reality.

The world knows your phenomenal skill in billiards, Professor, a talent second only to your amazing aptitude in theoretical physics.

Doping them with compounds like tantalum carbide makes them into submicron-sized superconducting wires, and packing them with potassium-doped buckyballs achieves the same effect, and if the buckytube is sized properly to fit the buckyball such packing would probably also serve to increase their already phenomenal stiffness and boost their compressive strength as well.

Vivacious, noisy, loving the nectar of flowers and the juices of fruits, Baal Burra was phenomenal in many winsome ways, but in a spirit of rare self denial I refrain from the pleasure of chronicling some of them in order to give place to instance and proof of the reasoning powers of an astonishingly high order.

The speed with which that new virus reproduces is phenomenal, and its rate of reproduction is growing a millionfold every human generation.

The chief engineer was of course superior in title, position, pay and authority, but an on-looker would have taken him to be the inferior, simply because he was so overtowered by the phenomenal height and breadth of the redheaded giant he was yelling at.

He spoke with a quiet self-possession and a pithy incisiveness which were altogether phenomenal.

It was the illimitable storehouse or Pleroma, out of which is evolved the endless circle of phenomenal change.

The cook, meanwhile, had succeeded in negotiating another loan from Porta, at some phenomenal rate of interest.