Gorbachev, who is now in his eighties and in fragile health, has criticized the Putin government for the "colossal scope" of its corruption and for cracking down on civil-society groups.
The pay is low, the work never ends, and students and parents can sometimes lack respect a real shame given the colossal scope and importance of the task at hand.
As befits its title, the director Zhao Liang's documentary "Behemoth" (March 17-18) is colossal in scope.
They mattered to me (as they still do) as reimaginations of the self, detached collections of visual extravagances that capture something of existence as a whole, as works of amazing and colossal ambition and scope.
This was not a local two-bit Mamet-style scam but one of colossal ambition and scope, a job for Norman Mailer or William Gaddis, both of whom, rest their souls, should be living at this hour.
The exhibition's scale and scope are colossal; indeed, it even contains something of a colossus, a ten-foot-high marble image of Athena, which once stood in a temple enclosure in Pergamon — a copy, at one-third scale, of the sculptor Phidias' lost Athena Parthenos, once the glory of the Acropolis at Athens.
The scope and scale of Indian football could be colossal.' Vijay Mallya, the man behind the F1 team - which he has named Force India Formula One - is also keen on football and says 'it can be as popular as cricket'.
As he was writing the book Bolaño referred to it as a "colossal" project, and his friend Rodrigo Fresán sees the book's scope as a conscious attempt to join "the same team as Cervantes, Sterne, Melville, Proust, Musil, and Pynchon".
Obama's electoral triumph of 2008 coincided with the most colossal economic crisis since the Great Depression (and far more global in scope); to add to his troubles, two wars were under way on difficult terrain in far away Islamic lands.
Both the colossal landscapes and the intimate portraits have a craggy, sculptural might, suggesting the epic scope of the geological history Flaherty captures in action.
