Referring to the period from 1929 to 1933 he continued: Again, under President Hoover, the contraction of credit took place on such a colossal scale as to force the dollar index (purchasing power) to 166.
Cities like these, built on a colossal scale, seem to absorb any urban model, no matter how unique, virtually unnoticed.
In some ways, of course, it is the ultimate cheat – a chance to describe the world on a colossal scale, without having to leave the room or be hindered by issues of access, bureaucracy, personal danger, money or political interference.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies IFSS) has warned that the Chancellor's spending plans set out in the Autumn Statement would require cuts on a "colossal scale" in order to reduce the UK's deficit to numbers set out.
Indeed, he learnt his dark arts as the bag carrier to Kakuei Tanaka, whom scandal forced to step down as LDP prime minister in 1974 but whose corruption on a colossal scale remains unmatched to this day.Tanaka, who died in 1993, casts a long shadow still.
When Scorsese finally won his belated Oscar for Best Director, for "The Departed," from 2006, he needed it: en route from his past heroism to his latter-day renaissance, Scorsese, who works on a colossal scale with colossal budgets, needed to pass from the age of the studios to the age of the Medici, and that Oscar did the trick.
Rylance is stunningly transformed and enlarged to a colossal scale with next-level motion-capture technology: it is a thing of wonder to see his trademark nuances and facial moues, generally so studied and small, magnified to the size of an Easter Island statue.
Louise Bourgeois, taught by Leger and steeped in memories of her French childhood, had an imagination large enough to fill the Turbine Hall with her own dream images, translated to a colossal scale.
Later kings elaborated this original design to a colossal scale.
The three artists (now collectively known as "Struffsky") rose to art-world prominence in the late 80's and together established a kind of imposing house style for contemporary photography: spectacularly matter-of-fact, technically flawless and enlarged to a colossal scale.
