Sentence examples for colossal prices from inspiring English sources

All over the world, you had people paying colossal prices for these things".

All the carrying on about Picasso's colossal prices feeds the belief that everything he touched reveals his genius.

The colossal prices in the market today are given for a small number of top names being chased by a group of billionaires who are determinedly trophy-hunting.

At a colossal price, Fidel Castro's pursuit of socialism has forged a unique aesthetic, freed from agitation, caught in a haunting equilibrium of stillness and decay.

Even Mr Chirac might balk at the colossal price that would mean paying and all for the sake of a few coddled farmers, who make up less than 3% of the EU's population.

Madeleine Bunting argues that the famine in Somalia is really about the war on terror, accusing aid agencies of not being political enough (Somalia was a sideshow in the war on terror – and is paying a colossal price, 12 September).

In fact, when historians reflect on the early decades of the 21st century Somalia, alongside Afghanistan and Iraq, will be seen as having paid a colossal price in human life as a result of the US war on terror.

All too often we announce new strategies or five-year plans, or launch new documents – often with colossal price tags attached – that are received by the public with incredulity at best and, at worst, with hostility.