Sentence examples for colossal act from inspiring English sources

It is a colossal act of charity.

But mostly it is a colossal act of curiosity, of imagination and of love.

Yet arguments about the meaning and, urgently, the response to this colossal act of violence started immediately.

Terrorists worldwide want to thank the US government for this colossal act of stupid.

It's easy to hypothesise that this Palace was nothing more than a colossal act of compensation.

But the Bureau escaped any serious scrutiny for that colossal act of negligence which led to the blowback in Boston.

It is cast in three colossal acts, each of a different character: a sequence of chorales with recitatives and lyrical interludes; a vast scherzo, lulling and brutal by turns; and a wrenching adagio finale, which resolves its contradictions in a state of blissful exhaustion.

Then, at the end, he prolongs the drama with a colossal fourth act-cum-coda that gives us redemption and narrative closure.

The colossal Dodd-Frank act of 2010 gave shareholders in American companies a "say on pay", too.Now come two new moves.

The events and the circumstances at the time were such that acting or failing to act had colossal implications of such magnitude that changed the course of history.

Even in 1895, such a project marked an act of colossal intellectual hubris.