Sentence examples for colossal setback from inspiring English sources

For California, which has the most ambitious emissions-reduction goals in the nation, that's a colossal setback.

He has overcome colossal setbacks, the most recent of which was discovering he would not be able to compete in the marathon in London because the International Paralympic Committee IPCC) said he could not race against arm amputees.

Not surprisingly given the colossal disastrousness of the venture and its subsequent critical mauling, the Onion ribbed: "In yet another setback for the $65m Broadway musical – a production plagued by multiple delays, poor early reviews, and severe injuries to its cast and crew – a thermonuclear device detonated during the first act of Tuesday night's preview performance".

CHARLEY: Colossal!

"The destruction is colossal".

"There's nothing colossal".

Big! Colossal.

"Expectations: colossal.

The result is colossal.

It's colossal.

They were colossal".