Sentence examples for colossal lack from inspiring English sources

"It was a colossal lack of modesty that led people to underestimate the risk involved and believe that they understood things more than they did".

"My view has nothing to do with legality and everything to do with what was right, and everything to do with just a colossal lack of self-awareness as to how they were viewed by the American public".

This experimentation with ideology fits Mr Putin's identity as a "case officer" says Clifford Gaddy of the Brookings Institution, a think-tank; a man who "finds out what people want" and "cleverly tries to manipulate them".The biggest problem for Mr Putin and for his efforts to forge a new national consensus is the colossal lack of trust between people and the state.

The massacre last week at the Lonmin-owned platinum mine in South Africa's North West province, which left 34 miners dead and 75 injured when police opened fire on striking workers, shows a colossal lack of leadership at almost all levels - the government, trade unions, business and the police.

Sending photos of one's genitalia is the height of exhibitionism and shows a colossal lack of judgment.

Partly it's a colossal, bipartisan lack of the political courage required to tell people what they sort of know but don't want to hear.

I referred to "a colossal, bipartisan lack of the political courage required to tell people what they sort of know but don't want to hear".

In their sotto-voce remarks to the White House press, these aides seem to compete in their synonyms for the President's modesty of intelligence ("moron," "idiot," "fool"); his colossal narcissism; his lack of human empathy.

But due to colossal mismanagement and a lack of vision and flexibility, its iPlayer app is clumsy, unpopular, and pretty much redundant.

It was lack of pretence, not colossal might, that excited a lot of people, including me, about his idea to build a giant white horse as a public sculpture for Ebbsfleet.

Presidents are often surrounded by advisers with colossal egos (not that these are lacking in this administration) whose major objective is to build their own empires -- and reputations.