Ms. Genaux's concentration on bel canto has been so consuming that her more recent forays into the Baroque and French repertories seem colossal leaps.
All stars, on screen, seem bigger than life, and have to reconcile their ordinary dimensions to their public image; Cruise has entered a celebrity magnifier that leaves him no ordinary size at all and makes his very being seem colossal.
For his characters, and perhaps for himself, this seems a colossal understatement.
A stranger to false modesty and phony self-deprecation, her ego seemed both colossal and, in its artlessness, endearing.
Photograph: Reuters/Port Authority Trans-Hudson To say that disruption to public transport should be expected would seem a colossal understatement.
While I don't doubt these two looks will be the result of expensive branding exercises and much research into the public's perception of logos (just like the heavy metal band-esque Olympics logo for 2012, or the Tories' drastic change of colour scheme), it seems a colossal waste of money to have different branding for each department, as well as the fact that it could lead to confusion.
Toward what end?... Seven billion individual connections, absent any overall unifying purpose, seem a colossal waste of human energy".
The idea of even billion individual connections, absent any overall unifying purpose, seems a colossal waste of human energy.
"Seven billion individual connections," he wrote, "absent any overall unifying purpose, seem a colossal waste of human energy".
Certain threats to our children seem so colossal and overwhelming that they create a sense of powerlessness and apathy in parents.
Even for an award-winning company like this, the sheer bigness of the story--on the big screen this past Christmas starring Hugh Jackman and Ann Hathaway--might Hathaway--mightal to control within the confineseem too Hurst Theatre.
