Sentence examples for colossal effort from inspiring English sources

Yet their colossal effort was in vain.

"Even to win one of those matches is a colossal effort".

This became easier once I had persuaded them to teach me the numbers one to 10, which I mastered with colossal effort.

The physical strength of this movie is impressive: an awe-inspiring and colossal effort, just like Valjean's as he lifts the flagpole at the beginning of the film.

The colossal effort Carr has exerted to produce his latest book, "The Legend of Broken," weighs distressingly on each of the novel's 734 pages, including nearly 80 pages of endnotes.

The gathering was to laud the colossal effort it must have taken for the supreme court to acknowledge their existence, and to hopefully inform the public about the impoverished, and desperate conditions that they live in.

It brought some stand-out performances from Danny Care, Courtney Lawes, Joe Launchbury and Vunipola to name but a few, and two colossal efforts from Tom Youngs and Ben Morgan off the bench.

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.

The colossal efforts of Charlemagne, Louis XIV, and Napoleon--though they gave us, respectively, the restoration of learning, the apex of the comfortable arts, and the crucial new reality of the career open to the talents--all depended on military might.

To show the kind of collateral damage left by his colossal efforts, there's no need to go further than the pages of The New Yorker, where, in December , 1980 at the time of the film's release, Pauline Kael wrote that its star, Kris Kristofferson, "seems groggy from the effort to act….

White-collar defendants with bottomless checkbooks have been known to make colossal efforts to paint themselves as philanthropic pillars of the community.