Sentence examples for massive rather from inspiring English sources

Petrographically marbles are massive rather than thin-layered and consist of a mosaic of calcite grains that rarely show any traces of crystalline form under the microscope.

It starts at Lake Ontario and from there you can stroll up to the Eaton Centre, a massive, rather spectacular, mall.

The production was "a massive disappointment, rather like seeing King Lear played by a real old king.

In his address, Dr. Linus Pauling said that we can expect a worldwide catastrophe but that it will probably be massive starvation rather than a nuclear holocaust.

As a fellow parent, I have noticed that Mensch is not alone in the delusion that by reproducing she has done society a massive favour, rather than indulge an entirely selfish scheme for personal fulfilment.

Sony has thus managed to shift attention away from its own failure to protect client data, while federal agencies have been diverted into a pursuit of us, this time for a massive theft rather than popular acts of revolt.

A large ox-like animal of massive and rather clumsy build with large horns that are triangular in cross section, the Indian buffalo, standing five feet (1.5 metres) at the shoulder, has a dull black body, often very sparsely covered with hair.

He said some of Málaga's problems were related to the sheer complexity of digesting two years of massive expansion, rather than a sudden lack of funding — in all, 52 clubs claimed money from Málaga over players acquired during the two-year buying spree.

Dropping players into a series of vast and chaotic World War II battles, it combined cinematic verve with a new sense of being part of a much wider offensive – a small cog in a massive machine rather than the solo gun-toting hero of Doom or Duke Nukem.

Apparently, in some cases a massive rampart (rather than a free-standing wall) was built around the trap's head.

At best, what we get is an argument for the possibility of massive modularity, rather than its actuality.