Sentence examples for colossal figures from inspiring English sources

Both cathedrals are dominated by colossal figures of the Pantocratic Christ high in the bowl of their apses.

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.

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

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.

Jme is a colossal figure in popular culture.

The best-known kouros is the colossal figure from the temple of Poseidon at Sounion.

Jack Donally was a colossal figure who commanded a lot of respect, if not affection.

Jack Donally had been a colossal figure who commanded a lot of respect, if not affection.

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