"You become aware of a colossal idea," he wrote after visiting the International Exhibition, showcase of an all-conquering material culture: "You sense that it would require great and everlasting spiritual denial and fortitude in order not to submit, not to capitulate before the impression, not to bow to what is, and not to deify Baal, that is, not to accept the material world as your ideal".
It's a colossal idea to digest, but hopefully the video will engage and perhaps people will read about some of the theories that inspired it.
Douglas Lasdon, executive director of the Urban Justice Center, who wrote a paper in 1990 about the city's lack of public toilets that is credited with jump-starting the debate, said it would be a "colossal bad idea" for the city to proceed without thinking through maintenance issues.
and "Gravity's Rainbow," the colossal novels of ideas that have inspired a thousand dissertations as unreadable as the books are said to be but actually aren't, he grounds his intellectualism in humor and livens it up with allusions to pop culture while sacrificing none of its deep rigor.
It sounds a bit colossal, but it's the idea of the ship of the world".
With the help of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), a continent-spanning radio telescope being built in southern Africa and Australia, he proposes to use the Moon as a colossal cosmic-ray detector.The general idea is not Dr Bray's it was first mooted in 1989, and since then several experiments have confirmed that it should work in theory.
The tension between the universal mission of the church and the hitherto omitted missionary duties, as well as the idea that the colossal task must be accomplished in the shortest time possible, renders comprehensible the astonishing physical and spiritual achievements of the great Christian missionaries.
Most of us have some sense, but lack a true idea of the colossal depth of its hell.
The reality is that merit pay for teachers has been tried and failed numerous times and the research done by psychologists, economists and sociologists has found over and over again that in professions like teaching, this idea is a colossal waste of resources.
Wilson's idea has produced a colossal scientific-research program, inspiring decades of inquiry in behavioral genetics, neuroscience, and evolutionary psychology.
This should give you an idea of the wall's colossal dimension.
