How To Use Colossal In A Sentence
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I leaned a minute against a Corinthian column; I lamented that no pontiff arrived with victims and aruspices, of whom I might inquire, what, in the name of birds and garbage, put me so terribly out of humour! for you must know I was very near being disappointed, and began to think Piranesi and Paolo Panini had been a great deal too colossal in their view of this venerable structure.
Dreams Waking Thoughts and Incidents
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Many of the wrecks around our coasts are either mine or torpedo victims, and either way there is a colossal bang, the ship gets a big chunk blown out of it and the rest lands in a heap nearby.
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a colossal tsunami destroyed the Minoan civilization in minutes
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Plus there's a colossal boot, loads of space inside, extremely comfortable seats and a genuine sense of quality.
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£35,000 is a colossal amount of debt to start your working life with.
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The colossal arms disappearing into her coat's dolman sleeves, tweed flecked with purple and gold.
THE SHIPPING NEWS
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Colossal emergents with overarching crowns a hundred meters across dominated the chlorotic topog'raphy, while smaller yet still gigantic growths fought for a share of life-giving sunlight.
Mid Flinx
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On the island of Malta, where great colossal statues of Goddesses still stand, is the underground hypogeum.
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The more usual scenario is for colossal public art to cause a small flutter, then be ignored.
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colossal crumbling ruins of an ancient temple
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Most extraordinary of all is a colossal pair of tortoiseshell and ivory globular vases and covers, probably made as exhibition pieces.
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More than 3bn of the colossal charge was linked to the alleged accounting irregularities.
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The rhetoric was wary and opaque, the mutual mistrust colossal.
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It's almost impossible to imagine it but the colossal cave-in sealed them off way back on Aug. 5.
Erica Heller: Did You Hear the One About Four Comedians Trapped In a Mine?
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The central "aisle" is devoted to "Olmec: Colossal Masterworks of Ancient Mexico," which in fact features masterworks from roughly 1400 to 400 BC, ranging from the massive stone portrait heads of rulers ...
Peter Clothier: Big Day at LACMA
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It was a ragged, unkempt pony, pitifully poor and very footsore, at first sight, an absolute "moke"; but a second glance showed colossal round ribs, square hips, and a great length of rein, the rest hidden beneath a wealth of loose hair.
Three Elephant Power and Other Stories
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Unquestionably, if ever the halter was a fit instrument for ridding the earth of monsters, it is in the case of these murderous, fiendish traitors, who inaugurated and guided this colossal and gory treason.
An Address in Commemoration of the Re-Establishment of the National Flag at Fort Sumter.
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The alt-country singer/songwriter is notorious for his prodigious output as well as his colossal inconsistency but this tune is an absolute winner.
Tuesday Tune: 'Halloweenhead' by Ryan Adams
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To imply that playing a video game leads to a premature rendezvous with the Grim Reaper is a non-sequitur of colossal proportions.
SPAWNPOINT.COM - Gaming News Feed
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Dignity in Dying wants to make a clear separation from the term suicide, which does carry with it, among other things, suicide is a colossal act of aggression against the nearest and dearest.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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And so it was that the whole population of San Francisco went forth next day in colossal frolic upon the hills that overlooked the sea.
Goliah
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In more recent years, Napoleon—impersonated by Marlon Brando, Rod Steiger, Herbert Lom, Woody Allen and others—has featured in a number of more or less colossal productions, none unsurpassable.
How Stanley Kubrick Met His Waterloo
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Today, the colossal bronze statue of Atlas stands on the site of the Mills house.
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Dive into the colossal family shoe heap to locate missing orthotic.
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At equal distances there are solid pedestals, upon the tops of which stood originally colossal statues of Sirius, Litrator Anubis, or Dog Star.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure
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After a long week at a top hotel, the branding folk went home with a big hangover and a colossal cheque.
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He fell on top of a colossal butte overlooking a dense jungle.
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The vast forested areas grew colossal numbers of trees such as hazel, oak, ash, beech, and many others.
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That a man who certainly did (as F.H. Groome says) look like a “colossal clergyman” should have joined the gipsies, that he should have wandered over England and Europe, content often to have the grass for his bed and the sky for his hostry-roof, has astonished very much (and I believe scandalized very much) this age.
Old Familiar Faces
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The sabre-toothed lion has gone the way of all flesh; the deinotherium and the colossal ruminants of the
Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science
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Nearby where I am currently residing exist a colossal steelworks complex that has been recently closed down in 2000.
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The colossal amount of animal manure produced will be used for generating biogas and as fertiliser.
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This colossal structure of iron and glass, despite the gradual decay and depletion it suffered over the 82 years of its existence, had not lost its ability to amaze.
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The colossal white columns, which lean forward 20 centimeters, will be returned to their upright position.
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It all seems like a colossal waste of time and money which could be well spent elsewhere in the beef sector.
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Her new album contains a colossal 18 tracks, some of them traditional songs, some instrumental traditional airs, reels, jigs and waltzes.
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And the shade of meaning, the limited qualification, that a Frenchman or Englishman can attain with a mere twist of the sentence, the German must either abandon or laboriously overstate with some colossal wormcast of parenthesis ....
Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought
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Moviemaking was colossally complex, backbreakingly difficult, obscenely expensive — and it almost always failed.
Toiling in the Dream Factory
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He uses the word colossal when something truly irks him.
Deconstructing Obama
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Many of the projects, it turns out, have actually been built, and they've proved colossal duds, leading a growing chorus of critics to question the studies' methods.
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For years they have been the elite of the fund management industry, enjoying colossal fees, gigantic homes and champagne lifestyles.
Times, Sunday Times
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See the vast mylodon, the scelidothere, and the still more colossal megathere!
The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America
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Our solar system lies in a suburb of a vast celestial city, a colossal community of stars, bound together by gravity the Milky Way galaxy.
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Yet it is a colossal mistake to concentrate on the negative aspects of our society and to be blind to so much of value.
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Will she catch him in the lobby where he laughs cruelly at her colossal stupidity, causing her to buy a fifth of Jack and go careening ( "careering" for you Brits) around Kelrast Curve?
Blogtimore, Hon
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Sue listed his academic achievements and Boris admitted he was a colossal swot - he strongly recommended boning up.
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We are met almost at the threshold by a colossal epic, Creation, Man and the Messiah (1830); by songs that turn into dithyrambic odes, by descriptive pieces which embrace the universe, by all the froth and roar and turbidity of genius, with none of its purity and calm.
Henrik Ibsen
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There is no need for an alibi to defend the colossal failure.
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He indicated a colossal towering figure, easily thirteen foot high, meandering towards us along the wide roads.
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The development had brought with it uninspired malls, colossal grocery stores, and near-constant controversy as builders encroached farther into the desert with each passing month.
The Sins of Brother Curtis
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These infections not only put us at risk but cost colossal sums to treat.
The Sun
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Still more shadowy were the sinister crocodilian outlines - alligators and other horrible reptiles, culminating in the colossal lizard, the iguanodon.
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I actually thought about charging for it, which would have been a colossal mistake.
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It was a hefty hiner, a colossal caboose, a ginormous jiggler, a gargantuan thong-gobbler, a massive boo-tay.
Wilberteets Diary Entry
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The colossal warships aligned themselves to their correct vectors.
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Your summer has been a colossal mess, but other folks have been lousing things up, too.
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Stepping off the airplane and into the Houston humidity, the first sight I spotted was not my homesick sister Laura, but a colossal bronze statue of George H.W. Bush.
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The more usual scenario is for colossal public art to cause a small flutter, then be ignored.
Times, Sunday Times
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It has stolen colossal sums of money from its own people and launders these billions in the Western financial system.
Haunted by the Past
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In the centre of the hall stood a colossal wooden statue, decorated in ivory and gold.
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In the centre of the hall stood a colossal wooden statue, decorated in ivory and gold.
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There was a certain frankness about him that pleased, and though he might be spendthrift and heedless, and colossally selfish, Richard felt a genuine affection for him.
The Black Moth: A Romance of the XVIII Century
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It is a colossal duplication of effort for the universities to hold big public examinations only to find that it contains no useful information.
Times, Sunday Times
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But far older than even these are the colossal grim circles of saints and apostles who cling to the roof of the choir, and yield in size only to the awful figures of the Saviour, the Virgin, and Saint Paul, enthroned in the _apsides_ of the nave and aisles.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860
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Lapidus became notorious in the 1950s, an era that liked its modernism discreet, for flamboyant hotel designs that were often called gaudy, garish, splashy and colossal.
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Tevye the dairyman wonders if it would upset some colossal heavenly plan "If I were a rich man.
Rabbi Samuel April: Class Warfare?: No Class, No War, No Fair
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Behind the head came the bloated, baglike,, limbless body, as big as one of the colossal wine vats in King Ario-stro's cellars.
Conan Of The Isles
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I thought it was a mistake of colossal magnitude and I still do.
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The gecko glowered at Nawin with appetite and fixed interest as if he were an esculent appetize -- the gecko crawling on the railing of the BTS Skytrain station looking down at the small womanly morsels and traffic below and amorous Nawin doing the same but as he glanced up dizzyingly at the facade of the colossal Intercontinental Hotel with its eerie pale-blue light diffused throughout, he felt like he was falling into a deep - blue eternal space.
An Apostate: Nawin of Thais
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In the cartoon, the guys travel the world for encounters with creatures that are familiar (crocodiles, worms, a platypus and pigeons) and some not so familiar (a conehead katydid, a tiger quoll and the recently discovered colossal squid).
Family Winter Preview
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There has been a colossal waste of public money.
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‘Why do men then now not reck his rod?’ What a tremendous line, a savage indictment of humanity's colossal ignorance.
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The ferocious energy shot into the sky, and the colossal beam was visible from miles around, until slowly, it faded away.
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Still more shadowy were the sinister crocodilian outlines - alligators and other horrible reptiles, culminating in the colossal lizard, the iguanodon.
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It wastes lives and potential on a colossal scale.
Times, Sunday Times
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Every day for 40 years, more than half-a-million viewers could look up and bask in these colossal testaments to American plenty and pulchritude.
Kodak's Grand Central Moments
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Farther along the curve, in plain view from my eyrie, carved out of the living rock, were four colossal figures.
Chapter 12
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Superb specimens were secured, -- large boulders crowded with colossal shells and perfectly preserved echini.
Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence
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It will presumably be finished in another two years, as only parts of the letters U and W remain to be done, and it will then consist of ten colossal volumes, some of which can be conveniently 'hefted' only by a fairly athletic student.
On Dictionaries
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Every one knows of the huge waiting lists of the NHS; just think what a difference the colossal amounts of money paid out in compensation would make to these!
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At that moment one of the colossal dark shapes passes directly under where we are standing.
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Thanks to some very generous donations and a colossal amount of hard work, it's all taken shape.
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The situation now is vastly different with colossal sums of money involved and GPs' motives frequently being called into question.
Times, Sunday Times
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Who will apologise to the public for that colossal waste?
The Sun
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The colossal Muir Glacier, the remains of a world the history of which is lost in the dim twilight none can now penetrate, is dying slowly through a million years.
Five Nights
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A lazy human blunder rendered a colossal scientific effort in vain.
Times, Sunday Times
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But wire reports of "colossal damage" to Beirut in retaliation for the Hezbollah rocket attacks on Haifa tell a distinctly different story, that is, a spiraling conflict that is fast turning the capital city of a sovereign nation to rubble.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
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Is it possible that any thing can be more just, than to inquire rigorously into the rights, sedulously to examine the foundations, to try by every known test, the stability of doctrines, that involve in their operations, consequences of such colossal magnitude; that embrace, in their dictatory mandates, matters of such high behest; that implicate the eternal felicity of such countless millions in the vortex of their action?
The System of Nature, Volume 2
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It was a colossal blow to the new constitution and the mood plunged from elation to despair in a day.
DEVASTATING EDEN: The Search for Utopia in America
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It takes a colossal failure of economic management to shake the confidence of a people in their own savings.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was also a colossal failure, shunned by audiences and blasted by critics as ‘pretentious.’
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The duke and duchess gave a preview tour yesterday morning, leading the way up a colossal flight of stairs.
Times, Sunday Times
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Legions of rebellious young blacks, and non-blacks, happily shovel out colossal dollars to revel in this image.
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Along with a colossal statue of Athena, bases for busts inscribed with the names of Homer, Herodotus and other noted literary figures were found here.
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The mountains are colossal, cut by the deepest gorges and drained by steep, rushing rivers in chaotic beds of boulders.
Times, Sunday Times
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Conceived on a colossal scale, created from a confusion of ideas and consuming the genius of the greatest artists of the age, St. Peter's became both the splendor of the High Renaissance and a scandal of epic proportions.
The Splendor and the Scandal
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Approaching it from this side you pass through a dense bryanthus-fringed grove of mountain hemlock, catching glimpses now and then of the colossal dome towering to an immense height above the dark evergreens; and when at last you have made your way across woods, wading through azalea and ledum thickets, you step abruptly out of the tree shadows and mossy leafy softness upon a bare porphyry pavement, and behold the dome unveiled in all its grandeur.
The Yosemite National Park
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Such companies are highly competitive and welcome the colossal saving of time and money new methods represent.
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A day or two after Mrs. March had met Mrs. Adding, she went with her husband to revere a certain magnificent blackamoor whom he had discovered at the entrance of one of the aristocratic hotels on the Schlossberg, where he performed the function of a kind of caryatid, and looked, in the black of his skin and the white of his flowing costume, like a colossal figure carved in ebony and ivory.
Their Silver Wedding Journey — Volume 2
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They also lost a handful of coordinators and assistants in the past five years, including two colossal defections.
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has a colossal nerve
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What is indisputable is that they were colossally influential, spawning generations of writers desperate to mimic them.
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Two mammoth horns curved out from the head stretching up along the sides of a colossal diadem of brilliant brass encircling the bony ridged cranium of the beast.
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A small port had been built and colossal barges looking like giant overflowing matchboxes were being towed the short distance down the coast to Korea.
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It will need both spending and taxation if this country is to get out of this colossal debt.
Times, Sunday Times
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Schlossberg, where he performed the function of a kind of caryatid, and looked, in the black of his skin and the white of his flowing costume, like a colossal figure carved in ebony and ivory.
Complete March Family Trilogy
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The amount of money generated for the local economy in salaries alone is colossal.
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For years they have been the elite of the fund management industry, enjoying colossal fees, gigantic homes and champagne lifestyles.
Times, Sunday Times
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In order to avoid colossal budget deficits, many economists say, the U.S. will need to slash benefits, raise taxes, or both.
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The colossal monument bestrode the harbour.
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At sunset, had there been one, we went into the Villa d'Este, entering through the huge deserted courts and grottoed halls of the colossal palace, surprised to find the enchanted gardens, the terraces and cypresses descending on the other side, the grey vague plain and distant mountains -- and always the sound of waters.
The Spirit of Rome
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Michelangelo emphasizes the massiveness of the Senators palace by using the colossal order and balustrade above a tall base.
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Until last summer, it teetered on the brink of insolvency, and did little other than amass colossal debts.
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Still more shadowy were the sinister crocodilian outlines — alligators and other uncouth shapes, culminating in the colossal lizard, the iguanodon.
A Pair of Blue Eyes
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It was a colossal waste of time and resources for the tiniest of conceptual rewards.
Times, Sunday Times
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Conner rose and stretched, his lupine muzzle gaping wide in a colossal yawn, the muscles rippling across his broad back.
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Ross Klein, a cruise-industry analyst, says that cruise lines' decision to invest in colossal ships may help them diversify their customer base without losing elderly customers.
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Even a single soldier was a colossal presence in battle; their fighting skills were a display of perfection.
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Tough love is required in colossal amounts right now from you to your terribly betrayed chum.
Times, Sunday Times
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Among the colossal redwoods, proportions change and dimensions shift.
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The black limousine came slowly around the corner and pulled up next to the colossal sight that was Air Force One.
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Here the colossal sunken valley was rich in gypsum, and the low rolling hills were white as if with frost.
MAJIPOOR CHRONICLES
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This would have been a colossal task.
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The serene Mexican peak, however, sprawls some lava from time to time, however its Bulgarian paronym is part of the colossal play with words, which deluges the Bulgarian Orthodox homeland for an entire month already.
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It is an outcome that matters to millions of people and involves colossal amounts of money.
Times, Sunday Times
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If the energy from the gamma sources is concentrated in collimated beams (presumably two opposite beams), how is it that they happen to be aimed at our Solar System, or do we infer that the number of sources is colossal?
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It was another dagger-pierced doojigger with knobs on, very similar to the colossal alien starship that had come to the rescue of Bronson Elgar, but only about two hundred meters long.
Perseus Spur
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We now have a colossal documentation of what it feels like to be in the margin.
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Some of the tall buildings in that city are colossal.
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Colossal emergents with overarching crowns a hundred meters across dominated the chlorotic topography, while smaller yet still gigantic growths fought for a share of life‑giving sunlight.
Mid Flinx
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Why are the retail financial services so prone to sharp practice on such a colossal scale?
Times, Sunday Times
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Before long, she's managed to insert herself into the cast, snare her dreamboat, popularize her colossal hairdo and integrate the show for her black friends.
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It helps that most of the supporting roles are played with lip-smacking gusto: Mr. Godley is in colossal form as Lord Evelyn Oakleigh, a Bertie Wooster-type boob who turns out to be one hell of a dancer, and Joel Grey is sweet and charming as Moonface Martin, the dimwitted gangster who prides himself on being Public Enemy Number 13.
Sutton Foster's Got the Zowie
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It's a colossal mistake to dismiss the book blog community.
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This is failure on a colossal scale.
Times, Sunday Times
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I drift with the crowd out of the square into a tangle of narrow streets, where the public-houses are a-roar with drunkenness, men, women, and children mixed together in colossal debauch.
CORONATION DAY
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On the way to the airport, a colossal thunderstorm broke.
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Three million tons of matter go into that colossal furnace every second of time, and out of that comes two and a half decillion ergs of energy.
The Black Star Passes
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Don Jose had gone crazy and been unable to finish this colossal project.
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You hardly need the benefit of hindsight to discern the colossal inadequacy of this kind of reasoning.
Times, Sunday Times
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They are on all the time and use a colossal amount of electricity and overheat.
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She found the man a baffling and fascinating combination of qualities, all petty selfishness and colossal egotisms one minute, abounding in endless charms and graces and small endearing chivalries the next; outrageously outspoken at times, at other times, reticent to the point of secretiveness; now reaching the most extravagant pitch of high spirits, and then, almost without warning, submerged in moods of Stygian gloom from which nothing could rouse him.
Wild Wings A Romance of Youth
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It amounts to colossal investment firepower.
Times, Sunday Times
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The wrong done him by the TRANSCONTINENTAL loomed colossal, for strong upon him were all the dreary months of vain yearning, of hunger and privation, and his present hunger awoke and gnawed at him, reminding him that he had eaten nothing since the day before, and little enough then.
Chapter 33
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The cost in terms of technological advance and the dissemination of fresh and stimulating ideas, is incalculable but colossal.
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Ramses ordered colossal statues carved in his honor.
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It is, after all, the biggest country on earth with a colossal roll-call of intellectual and artistic geniuses.
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The colossal irony is that a madman who rescued her from her folly was the same madman who later killed her.
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Now we're paying a huge price for their colossal mistake.
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We were about to begin our second bombing run when there was a colossal explosion in battleship row.
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At first glance, Colossal Youth gives the appearance of being almost atemporal, with no clearly delineated narrative, a series of scenes that take place in ambiguously defined present.
GreenCine Daily: Same time next year?
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The duke and duchess gave a preview tour yesterday morning, leading the way up a colossal flight of stairs.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Kraken depicted on its bewitching, double-handled jug is a giant octopus, but the word also refers to a giant squid -- in fact, to any colossal sea monster.
Stefan Beck: Beaches: Bergman's The Seventh Seal & the Wellfleet Oyster Festival
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The ridiculously defiant title ambitiously pits her -- not a typo -- against the music, suggesting a final showdown in which Britney suits up to, once and for all, eliminate that colossal aural evil by turning it on itself.
Archive 2003-10-01
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She raised her hand to hit then and suddenly stopped, a strange expression blooming on her face as she grabbed her chest, wobbled, and collapsed with a colossal thud, shaking the room, rattling the crystal decanter on the credenza.
Cats Do It Doggie Style
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On top of the Mexican teocallis - a truncated, or polled pyramid, with a temple atop - stood two colossal statues, one to the sun, the other to the moon.
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At night, asleep, he lived with the gods in colossal nightmare; and awake, in the day, he went around like a somnambulist, with absent stare, gazing upon the world he had just discovered.
Chapter 13
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A tall sandalwood tree, the transverse section of a teak trunk and the colossal egg of an ostrich are some of the other fascinating exhibits.
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It had crashed down into the wall five or six leagues to port, sagging broken spined withone half on the nearside and the other half on the far side, like a colossal maggot trying to wriggle over an obstacle.
Alastair Reynolds, Terminal World (2010)
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To further demonstrate her triumph over the priests of Amen, Hatshepsut commissioned her Black architect boyfriend, Senmut, to build a structure that would overshadow the colossal temple of Amen-Ra (Karnak), which was the stronghold of her opponents.
King/Pharaoh Hatshepsut, An Awesome Lady Ruler
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His throat gaped, his chest heaved, his eyes squeezed shut involuntarily, and then with a clamorous noise, he let loose a sneeze that put even the colossal thunder crashing in the sky above to shame.
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Masses are forced up like colossal tombstones on all sides; our sailors call them "hummocks;" here and there the broken ice displays large "holes of water.
Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage
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Once a commentator commits a major rhetorical gaffe or colossal misstatement of fact, it becomes impossible to take them seriously.
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The whole fabric appears to be of the remotest antiquity; and to have been imitated by the more modern architects of Egypt; for the propylon, and the pronaos with its colossal statues, are found at Gorne, on a larger scale; the two statues in advance of the propylon, are the miniatures of those in front of the Memnonium; and the sphinxes are seen at Karnac.
Travels in Nubia
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I evoked the oculus in the coffered dome, an engineering feat as well as a symbolic gesture of colossal proportions.
Alla Kazovsky: Orchestrating Experience
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It represents a failure of cultural nerve on a colossal scale.
Times, Sunday Times
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The singer earns a colossal amount of money.
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And so the whole of the population was in conflict with the government: there was disunity, or rather a whole series of disunities, on a colossal scale.
Le Québécois Libre
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The costs for a salvage project are colossal, and the clues unearthed by a researcher can make or break a project.
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The Sun Inn, or "House of the Giants," as it has sometimes been called, from the colossal figures which appear in the pargeting over its gateway, is a building which evidently grew with the needs of the town, and a study of its architectural features is curiously instructive.
Vanishing England
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The dome, the round minaret, the pointed arch, and the colossal portal-arch, are universal, as in Persia, and enamelled tiles are also used, but chiefly for interior decoration.
A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised
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Still beyond this lovely island rose from the water the gardens, villas, palaces, temples, and propyla which lay between Memphis and the river; while the city of Apis, “the diadem of Egypt,” in all the glory of architectural majesty and beauty, reposed on the plain beyond; the mighty pyramids, with their winged temples and colossal dromos of sphinxes, filling the background of this matchless scene.
The pillar of fire, or, Israel in bondage
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inside iraq" interview, however, is important: the people are completely in solidarity with one another. it is their governments that continue to make deals with and be controlled by the devil. and in the interest of solidarity here is one of my favorite poems by one of my favorite poets, mohja khaf, entitled "Snowfall on the Colossal Ruins" from 2000. it is about iraqi refugees in amman.
Palestine Blogs aggregator
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Its mammoths and its mastodons, its rhinoceri and its hippopotami, its enormous dinotherium, and colossal megatherium, greatly more than equalled in bulk the hugest mammals of the present time, and vastly exceeded them in number *** ‘Grand, indeed,’ says an
Essays and Reviews: The Education of the World, Bunsen's Biblical Researches, On the Study of the Evidences of Christianity; Seances Historiques de Gen��ve; On the Mosaic Cosmogony; Tendencies of Religious Thought in England, 1688-1750; On the Interpr
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But to have a machete-wielding wild woman and a baseball bat-brandishing hero and to never once get a good look at their handiwork seems like a colossal gyp.
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This is not the Olympics, with colossal public expenditure.
Times, Sunday Times
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The amount of methane generated by wildlife is colossal, yet nothing is mentioned about that or waste tip venting of unburnt methane to the atmosphere.
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Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, which later became a Disney movie, featured an encounter between a colossal squid and a French naval vessel.
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Claustrophobia replaces openness as you experience the unnameable on a colossal scale.
The Facelessness of Mass Destruction
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I mean the kind of colossal gold and ivory “chryselephantine” in academic jargon creations that once dominated the inside of the Parthenon or the Temple of Zeus at Olympia.
A glimpse of Greece in Bologna
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For any of them to become a reality would require a massive amount of consultation, colossal investment and a great deal of faith.
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You hardly need the benefit of hindsight to discern the colossal inadequacy of this kind of reasoning.
Times, Sunday Times
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Several colossal, yet dormant, volcanoes lorded over a steamy jungle realm of rice paddies, nipa huts, majestic palm trees, and lush undergrowth.
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At least the colossal squid isn't likely to join toothfish on the seafood menu.
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Turbulence within the super-hot plasma has a nasty habit of transporting the heat out as fast as colossal electric currents and particle beams can shovel it in.
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Mr Galloway, who may be further investigated for accepting money from Saddam to pay for his political campaigning, said: "The man was a colossal leader and I believe it is only right that the imperialist forces immediately withdraw and allow him to once again unite the Iraqi people.
Galloway calls for Saddam return
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What's puzzling is how the GOP failed to recognize and appropriately adjust to the stagnant fallaciousness of the Limbaugh-Republicanist political calculus when, prior to its colossal Palin error, Rush, for all his supposed influence on the body politic, had failed in his campaign to prevent McCain from capturing the nomination in the first place.
BOOTLEG REPUBLICANISM
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Kaplan doesn't find a great deal at "this colossal, reedy, asphalty, garbagy plot by the bay" -- which happens to be the size of Manhattan.
Come Fly With Me
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But he had the colossal knack of inspiring in others the virtues of followship.
Times, Sunday Times
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I remember also the colossal number of perks on offer at the freshers' fair.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's an error in judgment so colossal that it can't even be whispered aloud.
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On one side of the avenue stood a horde of onlookers, on the other television crews, all looking two blocks south towards a colossal pile of twisted and smoking steel, seven stories high.
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On the surface, it would appear to be a colossal waste of money.
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When first we had seen it we had gazed upon a sea of radiance pierced with lanced forests, swept with gigantic gonfalons of flame; we had seen it emptied of its fiery mists — a vast slate covered with the chirography of a mathematical god; we had seen it filled with the symboling of the Metal Hordes and dominated by the colossal integrate hieroglyph of the living City; we had seen it as
The Metal Monster
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Others again, no less colossal, were disposed upon the steps of a monumental staircase which, by their decorative presence and marmorean immobility, was made worthy to be named, like that god-crowned ascent in the Palace of the Doges, the
Swann's Way
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Even at the remove of twenty years many of the key players in the dreadful tragedy could still not accept that they had made colossal mistakes on the night.
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There has been a colossal waste of public money.
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The word fuse popped into Marlene’s head, along with a colossal terror.
Enemy Within
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The fire illuminated a colossal figure that stood about as tall as a skyscraper.
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The colossal room was packed with people of nobility and breeding.
