About the xenophobic Solzhenitsyn: "This colossus of a man, so markedly a stranger to common humanity".
Indelible spectacles include a pickup truck flipping end over end and, when the clouds of smoke and shattered glass settle, its intoxicated driver emerging dazed but apparently uninjured; a snarling German shepherd tearing a suspect's trousers to ribbons; a bald, tattooed colossus of a man reduced by Taser to a whimpering, trembling mass.
Pleasingly for the Cowboys and coach Paul Green, the Cowboys are approaching the finals with a number of players in form, not least Johnathan Thurston, Michael Morgan and Jason Taumalolo, a colossus of a young man and, you'd think, the bane of all-you-can-eat restaurants everywhere.
Wright, an architectural colossus and a wily diva of a man, is the main character.
Jeremy Siepmann takes in in-depth look behind the popular image of a man who was, and perhaps remains, the most enduring national hero in Italian history and a colossus in the history of music itself.
But Jefferson himself called Adams "the colossus of independence," the man who drove the debate for independence at the Continental Congress in Philadelphia in 1776.
Mourners at Stoke Minster remembered Banks as a modest, self-effacing family man, a "colossus of humanity" who cared deeply for his loved ones and gave generously to the community of Stoke, his adopted hometown where he made nearly 200 club appearances between 1967 and 1973.
After all, the public sector is a short phrase to describe a colossus of an institution.
Even as Carlos Ghosn sits alone in a tiny cell, with just 30 minutes of daily exercise to break the monotony of detention, Japan has found it hard to muster a shred of sympathy for a man hailed as a colossus of the global car industry until his rapid downfall just five days ago.
He plays Bruce Banner – the brilliant scientist who turns into the uncontrollable colossus Hulk when angered – as a man afraid of himself.
Perhaps distracted by my snorts of laughter, the colossus in the next seat, a man with thick forearms and a Vandyke, looked up drowsily from his laptop.
