What about the main course, the enormous main course, full of contradictory flavors, that tradition dictates for these days of feasting?
The expense of maintaining the projected force of 100,000 ground troops will be enormous, of course.
The personal cost of taking them, both physical and emotional, could be enormous, of course.
An enormous antipasto course includes excellent baked eggplant, fine fried calamari, steamed mussels, robust roasted peppers, cheeses and sausages, along with a tasteless mozzarella-and-tomato combination.
The food is delicious, with an enormous four-course meal priced at €26, including a traditional risotto all'amarone, cooked in this intense red, while for €45 you can taste a different wine from the brothers' production with each course.
An enormous assault course spread across a suburb of Buenos Aires and crafted out of giant balls and old-fashioned humour, Total Wipeout makes The Jump look like The Hunger Games.
At the first, La Montana, about 22 miles from Hermigua and an hour's hike off the main road in Las Hayas, we were served an enormous three-course lunch of salad, beans and the local cornmeal cereal called gofio, all prepared by Dona Efigenia, a septuagenarian cook who follows a strict program of vegetarianism.
This one has been resized from enormous, of course, but you can see that it worked (I used Hugin).
Dinner was served in three long courses; enormous tables covered with empty crystal occupied each corner, manned by waiters whose white tuxedo jackets glowed slightly in the bar's light.
Lately the eager environmentalist has mellowed into a more measured economist, and the Maldives has opened for business, however offbeat – from enormous floating golf courses to resorts staffed by blonde Lithuanian beauties (a forthcoming resort that will be known as the "Island of the Blondes").
