Sentence examples for a colossal figure from inspiring English sources
For a projected fountain at Fontainebleau he prepared a model in 1543 for a colossal figure of Mars (lost).
But, diminutive stature aside, he's been a colossal figure in the last 30 years of UK comedy, and we'll miss him a lot.
Ranged against them are freakish creatures of all kinds, among them European and Iranian kings; Zoroastrian priests; devils with tusks and crossed eyes; and the arch villain Zumurrud Shah, a colossal figure who appears in several remarkable paintings.
The impetus won't only be moral but financial: the black economy in Italy is estimated to be as much as 20%, a colossal figure that could be tapped and taxed if the state were sufficiently courageous to tackle Cosa Nostra and all the other mafias.
"Everyone within the game knows that Jamie has been a colossal figure for Liverpool," said Ayre. "You don't have a career spanning three decades at the very top of this game unless you are an exceptional player and he epitomises the values this club was built on and continues to stand for.
As the voiceover boasts of the site's billion users and four percent share of all Internet traffic, a colossal figure clad in black appears in a music studio.
Watts had originally proposed that the monument take the form of a colossal bronze figure, but by 1887 was proposing that the memorial take the form of "a kind of Campo Santo", consisting of a covered way and marble wall inscribed with the names of everyday heroes, to be built in Hyde Park.
In the calm, the horrified onlookers observe a cloud of smoke settle above the castle in the shape of "the distinct colossal figure of — a horse".
In my opinion, this colossal figure deserves an official state funeral of a higher status than the one now being contemplated.
The artist is a colossal father figure in this uneasy painting.
His "Samson Blinded," done when he was recovering from a stroke, shows a colossal nude figure, bandaged eyes bleeding, as he gropes his way forward in chains.
