Sentence examples for colossal colossal from inspiring English sources

And a lot of musicians get sucked into the celebrity thing, which is a colossal, colossal mistake.

For him to come along and lie to us and get that deep into our lives was a colossal, colossal betrayal," the woman said.

He described the problems facing the poor as "a colossal, colossal waste of human life".

The problem is this: these colossal increases have colossal costs.

When he is not making colossal statues, he has colossal visions, which he paints in acrylics.

But Terry N. Christensen, the lead lawyer for Mr. Kerkorian's company, the Tracinda Corporation, told the judge, "This is a colossal issue, colossal issue".

For Russians, Afanasev said, the horrors of the war were "like the suffering of Christ: you had an entire people go through a colossal test, a colossal suffering".

It is impossible to assess Obama's first year without keeping front and center in one's mind what a colossal mess — or really what a colossal collection of colossal messes — he inherited from the Bush administration when he came in.

The movie is a colossal spectacle about colossal spectacles, and the extravagant palette, the cavernous sets, and the wide-screen images in which Ophüls entombs Lola (and Carol) contrast cruelly with the real-life pathos of the performers, whom the director's own magnificent artistry cannot help but exploit as well as celebrate.

By Philip Gourevitch January 20 , 2010It is impossible to assess Obama's first year without keeping front and center in one's mind what a colossal mess — or really what a colossal collection of colossal messes — he inherited from the Bush administration when he came in.

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.