Sentence examples for a colossal design from inspiring English sources

Murnau answered the challenge: he created images of a colossal design that realized Goethe's fantasies — the celestial dome, the diabolical cape spread destructively over a city, the feeling of flight above a mighty landscape — while evoking, with the specifics of acting, with gesture and costume and dance-like choreography, the psychological precision of the dramatic poem's turns of phrase.

David Cameron's pre-election promise to hold an EU referendum was a colossal miscalculation designed to appease his own extremists.

India is to implement a colossal scheme designed to give each of its citizens a unique identity, rather than the piecemeal approach to identity that can be seen in the country today.

Tells of his hiring a former Communist; of shocking his fellow-educators by such statements as "all we can say of American education is that it's a colossal housing project designed to keep young people out of worse places until they can go to work".

Basically, it's a colossal future structure designed to "gather people together in an environment as pleasant and climatically comfortable as a garden as visually textured as a mirrored disco ball".

Inspired by Giovanni Pastrone's superspectacle Cabiria (1914) and the Tower of Jewels at the San Francisco Exposition, Griffith had Walter Hall design a colossal Great Wall of Babylon for the Belshazzar's feast sequence in Intolerance (1916).

In a colossal oversight from the design department, this product simply refuses to sit straight up.

A plaque on the copper just under the figure in front declares that it is a colossal statue representing Liberty, designed by Bartholdi and built by the Paris firm of Gaget, Gauthier et Cie Ciee is the French abbreviation analogous to Co).

On a more basic rag trade level, the clothes for the show cost $35,000 to produce -- a pittance by the standards of a large design house, but a colossal sum for an independent designer -- and were all predicated on finding "the perfect piece of Battenburg lace".

Later kings elaborated this original design to a colossal scale.

In an overhead view, the temple at Borobudur in Java assumes its intended holistic design as a colossal mandala.