Then we saw them: an enormous figure of a man, his trousers round his ankles, bent over the silent and naked body of Hermann Six's daughter, tied face down over an upturned boat.
British histories reported French casualties in the engagement as the enormous figure of 450 men killed and wounded, although as French historian Charles Rouvier noted in 1868, this is an absurdly inflated total: Rouvier gave French losses as 10 wounded, all on Marat.
The 1957-58 reportakeses a more humorous look at the items in order to make sense of the enormous figures: for example 42 tons of twine is "approximately 218 miles of twine.
The most popular of these groups counted a peak membership of about 23,000, an enormous figure for tiny Flanders.
No one knows much about the loyalties and passions of those enormous attendance figures of last season, for it is impossible to guess how many of those ticket-buyers came to see the Astros, and how many came to see the Astrodome.
Compare this enormous figure with the number of so-called traditional titles — books with the imprimatur of places like Random House — published that same year: a mere 288,355 (down from 289,729 the year before).
If 50% of electricity continues to be generated by nuclear, that is still an "enormous" figure, she says.
Variation between countries was not enormous (Figure 2).
Tomlinson also debunks the complementary but contradictory caricature of Grace as an unlettered 'rustic', all too appealing as his weight ballooned over the years, and he developed into the familiar enormous, bearded figure of later life, staring out from portraits like a beetle-browed Falstaff.
And London, with its prestigious design schools and reputation for producing figures of enormous creativity like Vivienne Westwood and Alexander McQueen, embraces individuality more than other fashion capitals.
