(a.) Of enormous size; gigantic; huge; as, a colossal statue.
(a.) Of a size larger than heroic. See Heroic.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Businesses will be ecstatic at today's decision because the Games will bring a colossal one-off commercial boost to the entire country," said the group's president, Michael Cassidy.
(2) Mockingjay Part 1 may simply be suffering due to the huge success earlier this year of the latest Transformers movie, which made a colossal $301m in China .
(3) The Baltic nations, Ukraine and the countries of the southern Caucasus did not regain their independence until the final, colossal crash of the Soviet Union three years later.
(4) Still, the book, which was written by Blair himself rather than a ghostwriter and is scheduled for publication in September, has already earned him a colossal advance, said to be around £5m.
(5) The proposed rework was a “seriously retrograde step” – “a colossal mistake, and a dangerous one.” The opposition leader validated arguments Jewish groups, including the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, have raised this past week against the proposed RDA changes.
(6) Latest official figures seen by the Guardian, however, throw into sharp relief the colossal scale of the business, a back-office beehive of activity.
(7) The trio at the top – Lord Stevenson, the bank's chairman "from its birth to its death" and successive chief executives Sir James Crosby and Andy Hornby – were roundly blamed for the colossal failures that led to its collapse.
(8) For many City investors, however, these colossal payouts are not at all troubling.
(9) They punished aspiration by introducing tuition fees, saddled public services with long-term debt through the colossal rip-off of PFI, and began privatising our NHS – laying the foundations for some of the pernicious policies of this coalition as they did so.
(10) Former UN official accuses world body of 'colossal mismanagement' Read more While the UN provides shelter to about 200,000 people in their protection of civilians (POC) sites, the recent report is surely testament to the failure, at least in part, of this mandate, cataloguing horrific abuses against thousands of civilians.
(11) The colossal tarpaulin roof had actually been opened and closed regularly throughout the day, as if taunting those fans who could not attend the rescheduled game, as the locals sought to dry the surface so there was an irony this game kicked off with autumnal sunshine pouring through the concourse under the canopy.
(12) So for him to come along and lie to us and get that deep into our lives was a colossal, colossal betrayal."
(13) "It's a welcome decision but it also underscores what a colossal strategic blunder it was mov ing the News at Ten in the first place and allowing the BBC in to steal the slot."
(14) In their article, they argue: “The status quo is a colossal con perpetrated on the public by politicians who are too scared to break the taboo.” Portugal decriminalised all drugs at the turn of the century.
(15) Further investment would be required on the sections of route from Leamington Spa to Birmingham and between Leamington Spa and Coventry, but the cost of these improvements would be small change when set against the colossal bill for HS2.
(16) Unlike the colossal dead weight waste of giving winter fuel payments to the likes of me, EMA is tightly targeted.
(17) He has never dared refute the Institute for Fiscal Studies' predictions of 500,000 more children made poor as a direct result of his colossal £18bn benefit cuts.
(18) The west's inaction in the face of the pending Ba'athist and Shia Islamist victory amounts to a colossal failure of leadership.
(19) The vote was seen as vital for Greece to press ahead with austerity measures and avoid defaulting on its colossal €355bn (£297bn) debt.
(20) The war was either a colossal mistake or a struggle for important principles.
Colosseum
Definition:
(n.) The amphitheater of Vespasian in Rome.
Example Sentences:
(1) Subtle lighting gives a magical beauty to the assorted ruins below, the Colosseum looming in the background.
(2) Free entrance to citizens of the EU who are under 18 or over 65 Villa Celimontana and Parco del Celio on the Celio Hill Photograph: Alamy The Celio hill – up above the Colosseum and a good place to escape to if you are flagging from the rigours of visiting the archaeological heart of the city – boasts numerous Roman remains, several very early churches and two interlinked parks.
(3) For the bigger sides they take place at unique landmarks: The Colosseum, Trafalgar Square, Brandenburg Gate, Champs-Élysées and so on.” With one very noticeable exception, however.
(4) How they line up AEG Owner Controlled by Philip Anschutz, for sale with $10bn price tag Selected venues London O2 Arena, Staples Centre in Los Angeles, Colosseum at Caesar's Palace, Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane Artists Bon Jovi, Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, America's Got Talent tour Festivals Coachella, New Orleans Jazz Festival, RockNess in Scotland Sports LA Galaxy, LA Lakers, ESPN X Games, Barclays ATP World Tour finals, media partner with owner of Tour de France Live Nation Owner Listed company with $2bn valuation Results for 3 months to end of September Revenues: $1.96bn Adjusted operating income: $202.4m Attendance at concerts outside US: Up 29% yr-on-yr to 4.27m Biggest ticketing artists of 2012 (in order) Bruce Springsteen, Rihanna, Coldplay, Jay Z, Westlife, Metallica UK festivals Wireless, Hard Rock Calling, Creamfields, Latitude, Download
(5) The Colosseum still stands, the Trevi fountain still sparkles and 91 former Popes still rest peacefully in their tombs at St Peter's Basilica.
(6) For Dene Hofheinz Anton, there are echoes in this trip of her father’s Astrodome-related fact-finding missions during its development, visiting Rome to learn about the Colosseum and the dome-shaped Palazzetto dello Sport basketball stadium.
(7) Many did flock to the colosseums to see His blade flash and dab down to third man for a couple.
(8) John’s gingerbread Colosseum was amazing,” says Sue.
(9) They include Gambardella's enviable flat near the Colosseum (which is not, however, open for visits), the Janiculum hill and the ancient Caracalla baths.
(10) But he was missing that spark of invention that Whaite and Morton were able to conjure up, whether creating a gingerbread barn or a colosseum.
(11) While passengers at Tiburtina, one of Rome’s main train stations and just a 10-minute ride from the Colosseum, tinkled on the station’s piano or stopped off for an ice cream, outside there were more urgent matters at hand.
(12) And, having witnessed two closures last month of the Colosseum due to wildcat strikes , he is also keenly aware of the capital's need to improve and capitalise on the showcasing of its cultural treasures.
(13) Now, though, he wants to turn his attention to the less lovely parts of Il Bel Paese, far from the Colosseum and the Rialto bridge: the suburbs.
(14) Over time, challenges became more perilously architectural – a croquembouche (choux puff tower) in season two, and in season three a gingerbread building (the eventual winner, John, re-created the Roman Colosseum).
(15) That the pair want to be seen together is obvious – nobody goes on a date to the Colosseum in an effort to avoid crowds – but it is Swift who has been the lightning rod for the ridiculous commentary on it.
(16) But after 30,000 strikers forced the closure of the Colosseum on Friday as they marched in Rome against the government's public sector cuts, political support for austerity in the eurozone's third-largest economy is looking increasingly fragile.
(17) AEG controls a glittering array of assets including London's O2 Arena, the Colosseum at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas, and festivals including Coachella in California, owns David Beckham's former club LA Galaxy, and is an investor in the LA Lakers basketball team.
(18) After catching malaria from a mosquito bite in the Colosseum, she fell desperately ill and for many months seemed close to death.
(19) The disruption even spread to the Colosseum, which temporarily shut its doors to visitors after staff walked out.
(20) He has turned the road around the Colosseum into a partially-pedestrianised area and has closed a highly controversial landfill site.