The phrase "colossal influence" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a significant or overwhelming impact that something or someone has on a situation, person, or field.
Example: "The artist's colossal influence on modern music is evident in the works of many contemporary musicians."
Alternatives: "immense impact" or "tremendous effect."
Thompson, like Andy Warhol, Lester Bangs and Bill Hicks, exerted a colossal influence on rock music without making rock music.
Some people assumed that Lagerfeld had prevailed this time around, pushing his way into the mix and depriving Chanel of the full-dress retrospective that her work and her colossal influence deserved.
Yet this short-lived and nearly mythical figure had such a colossal influence over Italian art – his name translates as the great George – that the early works of Titian, no less, would not look as they do without him.
Big and brave, gentle and jolly, goalkeeper Sandy Kennon was a colossal influence as Norwich City were promoted to the second tier of the Football League in 1959-60 and won the League Cup two seasons later, beating Rochdale in a two-legged final.
Meanwhile Grosics was a colossal influence in coach Gustav Sebes' magical side as it compiled a record of 42 wins and seven draws between 1950 and 1954, including the 6-3 undressing of England at Wembley in November 1953 and the 7-1 drubbing of Walter Winterbottom's hapless combination six months later at the Nep Stadium.
I asked about this however Jerzy told me that if that if there is a relation between his bass designs and modernism of Gaudi's colossal influence on Barcelona, it is unintentional.
He may no longer be captain of this lineup but his influence remains colossal, with Mascherano the player who had delivered the team talk about no longer wanting to "eat shit" that set the mood for the 1-0 quarter-final win over Belgium.
The primary beneficiary of this colossal loss of U.S. influence in Iraq has been Iran.
Saudi officials view their kingdom and its allies as being engaged in a colossal struggle for regional influence between Islam's two great branches.
A hundred years later, it would be a colossal understatement to call dada a living influence on art.
"As with the ancient poetry of China and Greece — important influences — his poems seek out the colossal within the quotidian.
