The Sentinels will produce prodigious volumes of data - all of it free and open.
These lakes can fill and drain in rapid time, sending prodigious volumes of water down the glacier.
Uranium will be needed in prodigious volumes to power up new nuclear reactors, and much of it will come from the Athabasca Basin in Canada.
Leader's research is prodigious — this volume carries only through 1964, when, at the age of forty-nine, Bellow rose both to fame and fortune thanks to "Herzog" — but the deployment of knowledge never feels gratuitous.
His range was prodigious; he published nine volumes of his selected journalism of which the first, Taking Sides, covered subjects as diverse as the death watch beetle, Field Marshal Montgomery, Wagner, homophobia, censorship, Eldridge Cleaver, arachniphobia, theatrical nudity, and the North Thames Gas Board.
But the volumes involved are prodigious, and the areas involved are scattered all over the world.
The fourth volume of Caro's prodigious masterwork, which now exceeds 3,000 pages, explores, with the author's signature combination of sweeping drama, psychological insight and painstaking research, Johnson's humiliating years as vice president, when he was excluded from the inner circle of the Kennedy White House and stripped of power.
The added volume affords elephants the prodigious memory needed to store a vast knowledge of elephant society and the complexities of African life.
Clara Schumann -- virtuoso pianist, wife of the composer Robert Schumann, mother of eight and prodigious writer (she left behind 47 volumes of diaries) -- lived a full and passionate life worthy of romantic biography, as this novel by a Scottish author with an unsparing eye and loose-limbed energy attests.
