The phrase "colossal affair" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is often used to describe something that is large in scale or magnitude. A common use of this phrase is in a sentence such as "The construction of the new stadium was a colossal affair, involving thousands of workers and millions of dollars." This emphasizes the size and complexity of the project. Another example could be "The wedding was a colossal affair, with hundreds of guests and elaborate decorations."
To invoke F. Scott Fitzgerald's line about the Gatsby mansion, which Fitzgerald supposedly modeled on a home set on the very spit of land where Mathew's house now stands, they were all colossal affairs by any standard.
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Like little triggers, the details of his life ignited my curiosity, leading me to imagine Anton sick with writer's block, Anton coping with colossal failure, impending oblivion, having affairs, in love with a woman that as a Jesuit he could not have, struggling with guilt and desire at St. Charles Seminary in Grand Coteau, La.
At the time, Toussie was a member of the community in good standing, but he made the colossal error of talking about SY affairs, on the record, to the journalist.
Blunt, the chair of the Commons foreign affairs committee, said it was a "colossal investment in a weapons system that will become increasingly vulnerable".
The home affairs select committee condemned the European response to the "colossal" numbers of people seeking asylum, saying the crisis should have been anticipated, and European countries had done "too little, too late".
Yet when she subsequently wrote about the affair, long after it was public knowledge, he went into such a colossal huff that they were estranged for months.
"Europe's efforts to address this colossal refugee crisis have been lamentable," said Keith Vaz, the Labour MP who chairs the home affairs committee, after a year-long investigation.
The critic wrote: "Edwards supervises some colossal creature-feature effects, but the human beings are on fantastically dull form and the storyline is a muddled and supercilious affair".
The event is to be marked by the completion of a colossal statue of the Buddha, but a mysterious series of deaths, seemingly by spontaneous combustion, is threatening to disrupt the whole affair.
