Sentence examples for colossal vessel from inspiring English sources

For a start, its entrances are perfunctory, tucked out of the way down at street level, rather than enjoying a frontage on to the main plaza, which is now occupied instead by Thomas Heatherwick's colossal Vessel sculpture – a $200m stack of staircases with pieces that seem to be held together with little more than duct tape.

If the Ever Laurel had encountered similarly tempestuous conditions, we can imagine, if only vaguely, what might have transpired: despite its grandeur, rocked by waves as tall as houses, the colossal vessel – a floating warehouse weighing 28,904 deadweight tons and powered by a diesel engine the size of a barn – would have rolled and pitched and yawed about like a toy in a Jacuzzi.

The largest of the colossal vessels that now tote metal boxes between the world's ports are twice as big as those launched a decade ago.

Maersk Line, a Danish shipper, announced on February 21st that it had ordered ten colossal vessels for $1.9 billion from South Korea's Daewoo Shipbuilding, with an option to order 20 more.

+ Dan McCarthy creates industrial-sized ceramic sculptures, an assortment of colossal vessels sculpted from a mountain of wet earthen clay.

One thing is for certain, these are not your average household pots: artist Dan McCarthy creates industrial-sized ceramic sculptures, an assortment of colossal vessels sculpted from a mountain of wet earthen clay.

One of the last to abandon the vessel was a colossal pig, launching herself into the water from the gunwale.

He's a limpet on the hull of a ship he can't steer, with ambitions of evolving into some kind of colossal squid and dragging the whole vessel under to serve his opportunism.

Also made from gourds are the large lightweight bowls, or calabashes made by the nomadic Fulani of the Sahara region and two ceremonial vessels with woven-grass coverings that suggest colossal wine jugs.

On the other, if even that colossal figure is not enough to sink the ship, perhaps the vessel really is seaworthy.

The colossal cost - £6bn and rising - caused one defence chief to characterise the vessels to me as "financial Death Stars".