Sentence examples for colossal violence from inspiring English sources
The phrase 'colossal violence' is correct and can be used in written English
It is typically used in contexts where one wishes to emphasize the severity or potential severity of violence, such as in the following example sentence: The escalating conflict in the region has led to a fear of colossal violence.
The atmosphere will become thick with hate; at this point it can descend rapidly into colossal violence.
Echoing the tragic events last week at Virginia Tech, Sherman Alexie's latest novel, "Flight," features a young, edgy outcast named Zits on the verge of colossal violence.
Late last month, its sensitivity to natural events was made clear when the network registered not only the colossal violence of big quake off Indonesia on Dec. 26 but, in the following two days, some 1,500 aftershocks.
"We must pull back from this trajectory," Zeid warned, adding that there was a risk "the atmosphere will become thick with hate" which could "descend rapidly into colossal violence".
I want to call this Balanchine's "South Pacific," but that can give you no clue of the colossal violence with which it starts and ends, the wheel-within-wheel circlings of its women or the moments when new formations of dancers appear and move like an inhuman machine.
Yet arguments about the meaning and, urgently, the response to this colossal act of violence started immediately.
We get the classic Noé tropes: throbbing ambient soundscape, murky lighting design bursting into unwatchable vortices of dazzling, flickering light, explicit sex and violence, colossal sans-serif lettering for the title- and end-credits.
"It's clear that the massive ethnic violence posed colossal challenges for Kyrgyz security forces," said Ole Solvang, emergencies researcher at Human Rights Watch and one of the authors of the report.
Speaking to his country's parliament, the Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko raised the prospect of "invasion" by Vladimir Putin and warned of a "colossal threat" posed by the escalation of violence.
It continues to bear the brunt of this war in terms of human and economic costs, but nevertheless continues to be viewed through the prism of violence and jihadism despite its colossal efforts to contain them.
Chapters 22 23 are dedicated to The violence of Earth, that is the colossal phenomena of change that radically modify conditions of life, displace species and populations, and trigger mass extinctions.
