Still, win or lose, fans can enjoy the concourse art collection and savour the size and image quality of the colossal video screens.
Viewed under the light of a spectacular evening fireworks display, the museum's colossal geometric form has an ageless quality, evoking a past when Islamic art and architecture were a nexus of world culture.
Davóne Tines, an expressive bass-baritone of colossal range, whose performances have a hypnotic quality, will begin the famous "Ode to Joy".
Yes, there was a period in the late 1980s when you could buy the Rover-built Sterling 825/8 27here, but the car was a colossal flop, with a shoddy dealer network and even poorer build quality.
He begins with books and documents, YouTube videos and illuminated manuscripts. Banksy, the invisible man of graffiti art, sees himself as a "quality vandal" — and his anti-authoritarian whimsy has won him a colossal following.
But Hytner's achievement has been colossal, not just in expanding the National's audience and providing high-quality work, but in his readiness to act as spokesman for a British theatre threatened by insanely myopic government cuts.
1790 color images from slices with different quality classes were acquired, using a flat panel scanner, from the hybrid cultivar 'Colossal' and 'Chinese seedlings'.
Seeing himself as a "quality vandal," Banksy operates in secret, but his scenes of anti-authoritarian whimsy have won him a colossal following.
