The translucent, blue-remembered hills; dramatic pines like colossal furled umbrellas; the clear light of morning thickening by afternoon; bosky banks, sultry undergrowth, Spanish moss tumbling from the shattered roof of the Colosseum.
A colossal 10th-century sculpture stands atop a hill in the town of Shravanabelagola, a centre for the Digambara sect in the southwestern state of Karnataka.
That almost 33,000 people are killed with firearms each year in America (including three Muslims in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, earlier this week) is a colossal and largely unnecessary waste of life.
Three years earlier, in 1814, the earl had erected a colossal statue to William Wallace on a much higher hill than the one allotted to Thomson half-a-mile away.
The La Cobata head was found on El Vigia hill in the Sierra de los Tuxtlas and the stone from Tres Zapotes Colossal Head 1 and Nestepe Colossal Head 1 (also known as Tres Zapotes Monuments A and Q) came from the same hill.
Most of Michelangelo's actual construction work was on the curving wall behind the altar, and there he carried still further the contrast between colossal and smaller supports next to each other, seen already on the Capitoline Hill.
The colossal white stone "column of fame," with its golden cupola gleaming above the Kremlin hill, was the definite expression of an era, reflecting the tastes and grandiose political ambitions of the rising Russian state.
Five colossal cranes still tower over it, glinting as the sun sets behind the hills, but work is virtually finished, contracts exchanged and keys handed over.
Perched in the San Simeon hills, the newspaper magnate's "modest" pad merges multiple European architecture styles into one colossal must-see landmark.
Shops are offering colossal discounts, even bigger than the painful spending and wage cuts passing through parliament in its pastel-painted palace on the hill above the city.
