Sentence examples for colossal role from inspiring English sources

Beethoven's music went some ways toward fulfilling the colossal role that Hoffmann devised for it.

They played a colossal role in the story of Europe, and its art.

Accordingly, higher agricultural education has a very colossal role in development of the agricultural and employability skills among the students of this field.

The husband played colossal role in making the decision to seek care.

The Olympic movement, which plays a colossal unifying role for humanity, could again wind up on the edge of schism".

After Verdi's depiction of Otello -- the most colossal tenor role in the Italian repertory, a tormented, complex and pitiable characterization fully the equal of Shakespeare's tragic hero -- some operagoers may find it hard to accept a bel canto Otello who sings lilting tunes over oom-pah-pah accompaniments and dispatches phrase after phrase of coloratura roulades.

Anne Hathaway will continue a streak of thoughtful blockbuster fare – after appearing in Christopher Nolan's Interstellar and The Dark Knight Rises – with a lead role in Colossal.

Collapsed global credit markets in 2008/2009 exposed the private mega-banks' colossal failures to perform that role.

They also play an essential role putting together colossal events like the Olympic Games.

However, the brothers Kolo and Yaya Touré, and especially the colossal Yaya, have played enormous roles in that success.

But putting the blame on them overlooks the role played by the colossal Three Gorges reservoir, 500km upstream.