But none of it would have happened without a colossal 20-year bailout that has already cost the west €1.3tn.
The colossal 133-year-old panoramic painting of the Civil War battle featured thousands of human figures — soldiers of the North and South fighting, falling, fleeing, along with sundry attendants of the battlefield: stretcher-bearers, cooks, orderlies and more.
First, it is inefficient: it imposes high marginal rates on individual and corporate income, which discourages work and investment, but it leaks a colossal $1.1 trillion a year through countless deductions, exemptions and credits.
There is another colossal statue, 2,200 years younger and in splendid shape after a remarkable restoration, in New York Harbor.
For five years colossal cuts to local bus services have decimated provision across much of Britain yet, despite the impact on people's lives, the losses have failed to register in the same ways as cuts to other public services.
Indeed, said Horst Schaumann, the mayor of the nearby resort of Binz — which traces its own history as a seaside spa to the late 19th century — "the past plays a somewhat lesser role" in the way restaurateurs and hoteliers contemplate their colossal neighbor after years of inconclusive efforts to define its place in modern Germany.
While Mission: Impossible IV and The Incredibles showed that Bird could pull off style and kinetic set-pieces, 1999's The Iron Giant proved that he's also got the one thing that's been missing from Star Wars for over 30 years: colossal heart.
John Bogle, founder of the Vanguard Group and one of the 20th century's great innovators in finance, made a colossal mistake 17 years ago.
Mr. Wain said that "Role Models" could be "the absolute colossal bomb of the year, and it will still outgross everything I've ever done, combined".
One prospective technique to scrub carbon from the atmosphere would cost $3 trillion a year, a colossal amount — but significantly less than the current level of subsidies paid out globally for fossil fuel, estimated at $5 trillion.
