Starting out as the portrait of an irresponsible woman, 'Colossal' turns into a critique of male self-pity, as Gloria's problems collide with, and are overwhelmed by, Oscar's sense of aggrieved entitlement". Most reviews seemed to focus more on Hathaway, even positioning the film as some kind of comeback.
They saw outside what appeared to be the contents of a colossal ashtray turning inside a washing machine.
Just before sunset, the colossal animal turned on the crowd.
He asserted that the American labor movement was making a "colossal mistake" by turning a complicated trade and development issue into a campaign issue.
So now we arrive at a situation where the government and the political establishment is struggling to put through the most colossal about-turn for 70 years, an about-turn in which it does not really believe; and where Labour MPs know that their leader is not up to it, that he can't form a government or even hold one to account, but are being dictated to by outside forces.
A former addict whose drugs of choice are now methadone and beer, Vanda has a scraping cough and a mesmerizing storytelling style; in "Colossal Youth" she turns her experiences of giving birth into an epic.
Some people are so keenly sensitive to beginnings and endings that on New Year's Day they can almost hear the rustle of a colossal page being turned, like the opening of some Selznick version of Dickens.
Forty years ago, when Uzbekistan was part of the Soviet Union, the Kremlin ordained a colossal task: to turn this heat-puckered land and four of its neighbors, a swath of desert and scrub as big as Western Europe, into an irrigated cotton plantation.
If you make enough headlines for your sabre-rattling, then you can create a different kind of fame, the kind of fame that attains association thus: "Hmm, that writer used the term 'space marines' in her book, and I know that Games Workshop are colossal jerks who turn your life into a living hell if you even breathe the words 'space marines,' so this must be somehow associated with Games Workshop".
