The scale of suffering in the war is so colossal that deaths become, numbingly, mere statistics.
The pile is so colossal that the Christmas tree, around whose trunk they cluster, only peeks out at the top.
Statistically, average pay looks far better than it is, because the rewards at the very top are so colossal.
It is so colossal, and so out of place in a run-down urban neighbourhood, that it inspired something close to fear, like facing the Niagara Falls.
Even so, because the universe is so colossal, and because it is so old, only a small number of civilizations would need to behave as life does on Earth — unceasingly expanding — in order to be visible.
He wants tax avoiders to be named and shamed, adding: "Where the country's indebtedness is so colossal and the budget deficit is so huge, there is a moral obligation on people to pay their fair and reasonable dues".
With plenty of encouragement from high-end lobbyists, a new orthodoxy soon took hold that some corporations were so colossal — and so instrumental to the national economy — that even filing criminal charges against them would be reckless.
At one point a wild turkey appeared suddenly on an embankment above me, and it was so colossal I thought for a moment it was some unusual form of livestock.
The work has been in progress for 50 years and is still not finished, partly because the Ziolkowski family refuse to accept government funding, partly because it is so colossal.
