But even at their most huge and demented, none of these insane monuments looked as huge and demented as the projects being announced in Dubai.
And as the largest private employer in the country, it illustrates better than most the huge stakes of the deal for many Vietnamese.
It has hundreds of artworks, most of them huge: murals with allegorical tales of good and evil, modern takes on Rembrandt, variations on and homages to grunge comix and the golden age of Mad magazine.
Most of the huge number of willing and devoted outsiders working for international charities or the UN despair over the chronically slow pace of reconstruction over the past five years.
Maslenitsa is well-known for its seven days of festivities and final dose of gluttony, as it's the last week that Orthodox Russians can eat dairy before Lent - so make the most of the huge range of food available, and indulge!
There is no question that China needs new infrastructure and transportation networks if it is to meet its goal of transforming most of its huge population into city dwellers.
There were dozens of paintings, most of them huge, and most made from photographs or from some antique French hospital X-rays that had been blown up on canvas and then Schnabelized with ink, paint, resin and blobs of gesso.
The Jersey Shore was hit hard, but by the beginning of the summer most of the huge sandy beaches had reopened and boardwalks had been repaired.
Overruns are most often huge, in the billions of dollars, and these costs are always placed on the shoulders of taxpayers through an increased electric power rate structure.
Its political culture is deeply imbued with antagonism towards America, Japan and South Korea, and most of its huge army is within shelling distance of Seoul, the South's capital.
