Goliath

[ US /ɡəˈɫaɪəθ/ ]
NOUN
  1. (Old Testament) a giant Philistine warrior who was slain by David with a slingshot
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  • Who would have bet on Mjallby being the one on the seat of his shorts trackside after an unlikely skirmish between David and Goliath?
  • As Goliath advances toward him, David uses his sling to hurl a rock at the giant's face.
  • The exemplariness consists in an apparent David-and-Goliath struggle, the result of which is an unspecified dreamed-of victory. Peter Weiss - 4
  • This novel proves that he is not only a literary Goliath, but also a modern-day prophet who has his fingers on the pulse of the contemporary world, able to predict its vital beats.
  • Goliath is a horrific giant cyclops; the drowning sinners trying to claw their way onto Noah's Ark are caught in flashbulb moments of terror and agony; Saul's army rends the raw meat of their slaughter as they try to avoid starvation; the mutilated corpses of Baanah and Rechab dangle from nooses in Hebron; the boiled heads of donkeys emerge from the cooking pot as starving Israelites look on with hungry eyes; Daniel's horned beast crushes a mountain of screaming men and women as it stalks the land; and in Revelations, the rains of fire, floods and famine lay waste to cities as horribly burned famine victims scream and claw at their flesh. Boing Boing
  • A steam-tug, the Goliath, now took us by the arm, and gallanted us down the river past the fort. Redburn. His First Voyage
  • Funny, crass, vulgar and able to move vertically through the different stratifications of society thanks to the all-potent press pass, the journo was the only subversive capable of roaming the American landscape, and he was the only one able to defend the little guy against the Goliath of corporate greed. Canada.com Top Stories
  • It collapsed, a dinted and dinged warrior, what I liked to think of as the fighter who met his end crushed by Goliath right before David was up. 365 tomorrows » 2010 » January : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
  • Even the water park, which will be part of an Olympic-size aquatic centre, will have a Christian theme, with laser shows depicting Bible stories such as Jonah and the whale and David and Goliath.
  • the biggest upset since David beat Goliath
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