Put simply: to get people to do things, throw away those sticks and invest in a prodigious quantity of carrots.
Scenarios for the building of muon colliders or storage rings suitable for the generation of robust neutrino beams call for the generation of a prodigious quantity of pions.
"The islands provide a great deal of fish and a prodigious quantity of hawksbill turtles and several other species of land and sea tortoises.
The dying Kurtz is taken aboard the boat (along with a prodigious quantity of ivory), but he does not survive the journey back downstream.
But it is really just a way of burning a prodigious quantity of fuel to get what it is carrying to the right place.
Wolfe did not publish another novel during his lifetime, though at his death he left a prodigious quantity of manuscript, from which the editor Edward Aswell extracted two more novels, The Web and the Rock (1939) and You Can't Go Home Again (1940).
But a prodigious quantity of killing and cleansing had taken place already, and no reader of our briefing this week (see article) could in conscience declare "victory" in a place the American invasion and subsequent civil war ended up laying waste.
This left a prodigious quantity of uranium as a waste product, since it takes three tonnes of uranium to extract one gram of radium.
Bezos told author Cody Teets, "My first week on the job, a five-gallon, wall-mounted ketchup dispenser got stuck open in the kitchen and dumped a prodigious quantity of ketchup onto ever hard-to-reach kitchen crevice".
He has been stable for many years now and consistently produces a prodigious quantity of work, primarily in his signature Abstract Expressionist style, with an emphasis on collage and mixed media.
She fills a pan with a prodigious quantity of butter, tosses in handfuls of carefully peeled, thickly sliced and boiled truffles, and with careless abandon pours in a river of rich cream, all the time a mysterious smile playing on her face at the joy of introducing another newcomer to the Kalahari truffle.
