The country often threatens to turn Washington and the South Korean capital, Seoul, into a "sea of fire," and Pyongyang has released propaganda clips showing simulated attacks on the U.S. The U.N. has passed a series of sweeping sanctions against North Korea, which Pyongyang has said are having a "colossal" effect.
"In order to prevent further destruction," the Hollywood Reporter said, "Gloria needs to determine why her seemingly insignificant existence has such a colossal effect on the fate of the world".
"Talking to the players afterwards it was quite clear that Mandela had had a colossal, galvanising effect on the whole thing.
Rugby writer Peter Jackson, who covered the 1995 Rugby World Cup in South Africa, said Mandela had a "colossal, galvanising effect" on Springbok's winning the tournament due to his "charisma and saintliness".
By 2005 polls suggested that the Conservatives had a colossal structural lead over Labour on immigration, and that people cared about it much more than any other issue.
I wanted to create a character on whom a work of art has had a colossal impact.
(Chances are, it will be back to inertia, avoidance, guilt and bacon in just three short weeks anyway. An hour with an advisor could have colossal effects on the rest of your life).
The groups' troubles will have a "colossal" impact on the Gulf, he says, "unless there is some divine intervention".
