But another, perhaps more apt, comparison is to the early years of the Internet, when so-called content providers pumped prodigious amounts of material and ideas onto the Web and hoped that the demand for it would follow.
Herbert, through his nefarious activities and seedy characteristics, provided material for the shabby, disreputable figures who flit through Graham's fiction".Shades of Greene" is an ambitious undertaking that has needed a prodigious amount of research.
At Graham's and elsewhere, Poe wrote a prodigious amount of rather extraordinary literary criticism.
They help communities survive, but produce a prodigious amount of noxious waste.
Such a prodigious investment of time and talent indicates an equally prodigious amount of ambition, but surely there must be periods of self-doubt.
A prodigious amount of ordnance has already been deployed in Mosul.
The spending by outside groups comes on top of a prodigious amount of cash raised by lawmakers.
To be sure, the lawn consumed a prodigious amount of psychic energy and agricultural expertise well before it opened.
Although Cosey turned out a prodigious amount of work during the thirties, he was constantly running out of funds, and occasionally Bergquist would slip him a few dollars.
