Sentence examples for colossal figure from inspiring English sources

For a projected fountain at Fontainebleau he prepared a model in 1543 for a colossal figure of Mars (lost).

But, diminutive stature aside, he's been a colossal figure in the last 30 years of UK comedy, and we'll miss him a lot.

On the other, if even that colossal figure is not enough to sink the ship, perhaps the vessel really is seaworthy.

Ambrose is as short and compact as a wicketkeeper should be with an untucked shirt and slightly worn helmet; Flintoff is still the colossal figure people remember so fondly from the Ashes.

Ranged against them are freakish creatures of all kinds, among them European and Iranian kings; Zoroastrian priests; devils with tusks and crossed eyes; and the arch villain Zumurrud Shah, a colossal figure who appears in several remarkable paintings.

It was executed by Attilio Piccirilli, one of six sculptor brothers who worked in the Bronx and who also carved the colossal figure of Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington.

Other examples include the figure at the Villa Albani at Rome and two colossal figures in the smaller propylon at Eleusis.

These are colossal figures – equal to more than £15,000 for every man, woman and child in Britain today.

There are colossal figures of farmers and mill workers, steel factories and hydroelectric dams — still powerful, though darkened, dulled, nicked and cracked.

Some of the caves served merely as cell-like enclosures for colossal figures of the Buddha (up to about 55 feet [17 metres] tall), while others contained chapels.

Known locally as Rapa Nui, Easter Island in the South Pacific is famous for its hieroglyphiclike tablets and colossal figures carved from volcanic rock.