In the intervening years a gigantic political disaster, like some sort of all-consuming black hole, has devoured everything in its path including the credibility of our democratic process and any moral capital the west had.
The official version, that the flood was a gigantic natural disaster, though confirmed by several independent experts, was angrily rejected by local residents; in the early days after the flood, they overwhelmingly believed that the real cause was a release of water from an overflowing reservoir.
Tar sands oil is a gigantic climate disaster waiting to happen.
We're about one gigantic natural disaster away from being an IRL version of The Road Warrior, and there's nothing we can do about it.
We're about one gigantic natural disaster away from being an IRL version of The Road Warrior and there's nothing we can do about it.
Mr. Obama might have chosen to give a more clipped answer — I think that indeed he should have done so — but criticism surely ought to be directed at a press corps more interested in celebrated crime cases than gigantic, systematic human disasters.
The presidency that began with so much promise stands on the brink of a gigantic and historic electoral disaster in November.
JR Piggott's fascinating study begins with the idea of a gigantic theme park, the disasters (13 men died when three ceiling trusses collapsed during construction) and the sneering (an article referred to the Alhambra Court as "Othello in a Bond Street suit").
Yet despite this, the inherent dangers of pumping highly explosive materials from under the oceans means accidents happen, from the gigantic blowouts like the Deepwater disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, to the weekly leaks that foul the North Sea.
And even the best minds, the best or darkest dreamers of disaster on a gigantic scale, from Tolstoy and Wells to Don DeLillo, could not have delivered us into the nightmare available on television news channels yesterday afternoon.
