It was, Gates said in his office a month later, a colossal bore: "I was sitting there on that panel thinking, We're talking about saving three million lives a year here.
I would not say that I have never met a Yale man who was a colossal bore, but the fact is I have found many Yale men brilliant, and a great majority of my oldest and dearest friends are Yale graduates".
For two hours on the last Wednesday of every month, they meet in a tiny room in a Tokyo office tower to plan their next investment moves, undeterred by a colossal bear market.
Michel Foucault was a colossal bore and a bore, moreover, who encouraged the practice of seeing history exclusively in terms of the exploitation of an ever-multiplying band of victims even as living standards rose to unprecedented levels.
Full bore, full follow through, capable of colossal hitting into the tennis courts at Adelaide, or straight almost out of the old MCG.
Primark famously buys cheaply in colossal bulk, and the evidence was there: approximately 200 grey slacks in a single style, guaranteed to make you instantly resemble a golfing bore; 200 pairs of sludge-green combat trousers with zip-tags and otiose knee-pockets.
The scope of his entire career to date, which also includes documentaries, grand-scale historical frescoes, and satirical fantasies, indicates the colossal cinematic armamentarium that he would bring to bear on a widely contextualized and multifaceted view of African-American lives — a spectrum far greater than a commercially produced Hollywood movie would be able to contain.
The problem is this: these colossal increases have colossal costs.
Dignan was also pleased to have Hurley back at the camp and referred to him as "someone [who] will keep the show grounded", but concluded his review by unhappily noting the sudden emergence of Nikki and Paulo as "a colossal misjudgment on the producers' part" and "a dangerous precedent that bears keeping an eye on".
It continues to bear the brunt of this war in terms of human and economic costs, but nevertheless continues to be viewed through the prism of violence and jihadism despite its colossal efforts to contain them.
Here is the weight Martin must bear on a traffic island, after a liquid lunch, when Sir Kingsley falls down like all the king's men: "It was a work of colossal administration.
