Sentence examples for colossal shock from inspiring English sources

One suggestion is that Ötzi was sacrificed afterward to placate the gods, but Hempsell believes that he died in the explosion, and points out that if you're about to be hit by a colossal shock wave, "having a quiver full of arrows on your back is not a good idea".

TS Eliot's conversion to high Anglican Christianity came as a colossal shock to Bloomsbury – his friends saw themselves as a conspiracy of the enlightened against stodgy leftovers of the world that had created the war, and here was one of their best and brightest telling them that they were wrong.

Excavated material along with pieces of the impactor, ejected out of the atmosphere by the blast, would have been heated to incandescence upon re-entry, broiling the Earth's surface and possibly igniting wildfires; meanwhile, colossal shock waves would have triggered global earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.

I think many, if not all, socialists of my stamp felt the invasions of Afghanistan and then Iraq as colossal shocks that exposed how bodged-up our belief systems really were.

Dissidents who tried to organise a nationwide opposition party in 1998 were jailed, and no one has tried since, although the Chinese media occasionally air the idea of more thorough political reform.The leadership is fearful of acting, and will probably remain so until some colossal social or political shock forces it to change.

And once you get over the initial shock of "In Bed," a colossal tableau — 21 feet long — of a woman lying in bed, giant hand to apprehensive face, you wonder: Why so big?

When clusters of galaxies collide, a colossal amount of energy is released, sending a cosmic shock wave (shown here as a bright arc) bowling through the cluster like a tsunami.

So that first vanilla sniff of your colossal floating individual palazzo came as an almost, but not quite, unbearable shock.

CHARLEY: Colossal!

"The destruction is colossal".

"There's nothing colossal".