After the Eiger and the glaciers of Grindelwald – colossal icy tongues that licked the village in the 1860s, but have retreated back into the mountains today – she returned to Interlaken to board the steamer across Lake Brienz to Giessbach Falls.
At a cost of £50bn (at the latest count) HS2 shows every sign of being a colossal white elephant.
The partnership so far has spun off colossal technological and computing rewards, but that is not the point.
The UUP's defiance on the question of support for the transfer of these powers is portrayed by Ian Paisley as nothing less than a "colossal mistake".
Mark Rutte, the centre-right Dutch prime minister, threw in the towel on Monday, submitting his resignation to Queen Beatrix after seven weeks of fruitless haggling over colossal spending cuts, which are required to comply with new European rules he has done much to design.
After Kadesh, Moses returns to Egypt, where Jewish slaves are working away on some monuments, colossal statues and a pyramid.
As he described it, 'Thanks to poison and the gun they are rapidly following the fate of the Tasmanian nation which was completely destroyed in a period of about 40 years, constituting the most colossal crime our earth has known'".
This entire exhibition is based on a colossal and obvious distortion of the truth.
There are many copies of his colossal The Fall of the Damned, which the catalogue calls "without doubt one of the most impressive paintings" in Munich's venerable art museum the Alte Pinakothek – but no Fall of the Damned.
Random Access Memories is a colossal piece of work, but not in an overbearing "tremble at our genius, puny earthlings" way.
In fact, the full costs to the country of the war on the miners - including those of the strike, closures, redundancy, and economic and welfare costs - have been colossal, almost £30bn.
