(1) Samuel's argument was that, far from being a movement to overthrow the existing order, the strike was a deeply conservative defence "of the known against the unknown, the local and the familiar against the remote and the gigantesque".
Gigantic
Definition:
(a.) Of extraordinary size; like a giant.
(a.) Such as a giant might use, make, or cause; immense; tremendous; extraordinarly; as, gigantic deeds; gigantic wickedness.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was an artwork that fired the imaginations of 2 million visitors who played with, were provoked by and plunged themselves into the curious atmosphere of The Weather Project , with its swirling mist and gigantic mirrors that covered the hall's ceiling.
(2) Primary thrombocythaemia is to be distinguished from the secondary type by higher counts of megakaryocytes especially of atypic and gigantic forms of these cells, showing up in adequate histological preparations of bone marrow biopsies.
(3) Endless utilitarian apartment blocks and gigantic hotels sprawl seemingly at random in the so-called "coastal cluster".
(4) A case of cerebral gigantism with hydronephrosis in a 20-month-old boy is described.
(5) Meanwhile he is preparing a new double piano concerto by Kevin Volans with the Labèque sisters for a concert at the Edinburgh festival next week, and he tells me with a glint in his eye about ideas for the next two seasons: concert performances of Don Giovanni this October, more Brahms symphonies, and more Berlioz – an ambitious plan to realise the gigantic drama of Roméo and Juliette on a chamber-orchestral scale, following up his rapturously received performances of L'Enfance du Christ in February.
(6) The gigantic lintels that bridge the uprights were also elaborately worked to even their size and height.
(7) Near the entrance was a sprawling camp kitchen, with mountains of supplies, indoor and outdoor facilities and open fires on which some of the cooking was done, and all of the gigantic vats of coffee seemed to be boiled.
(8) But if states cannot trust that their citizens' personal data – as well as sensitive commercial and government information – will not be swept up in a gigantic global surveillance operation, this may be a price they are willing to pay.
(9) However, the most spectacular fundraiser was not the auction room but a wedding, when the ninth duke married the American railroad heiress Consuelo Vanderbilt, securing a gigantic dowry, a fortune in shares and an annual allowance.
(10) This case indicates that the ataxia in cerebral gigantism may be, at least partly, caused by cerebellar atrophy.
(11) An 8-year-old boy with an uncorrected ventricular septal defect, pulmonary stenosis, mental retardation, and gigantism died 24 hours after partial resection of a large right-sided Wilms' tumor.
(12) In Britain business success usually means growth to gigantic and unmanageable size.
(13) This tumor is rare in children and has never, to our knowledge, been recorded in a patient with cerebral gigantism.
(14) Progressive preoperative pneumoperitoneum, combined when necessary with Marlex mesh to obviate tension, enables closure of even gigantic defects.
(15) Simply, Apple is a gigantic company, and iOS in particular is seen as being at a crossroads: Android has overtaken it in sales terms and many critics say it offers users more flexibility – so what's Apple going to do to stop the iPhone looking fusty?
(16) Climate change itself will have a gigantic impact on our economy which will be nothing to do with the carbon bubble.
(17) If we could rediscover that sense of harmony; that sense of being a part of, rather than apart from nature, we would perhaps be less likely to see the world as some sort of gigantic production system, capable of ever-increasing outputs for our benefit – at no cost."
(18) The morphological changes recorded from cells damaged by virus infection included the formation of gigant syncytial cells and intranuclear inclusions of Cowdry Type A.
(19) Spores of both parasites are oviform; those of M. acanthocephali are gigantic, 12-14 micron long and 6-7 micron broad, those of M. propinqui are only 3-4 micron X 1.25-1.50 micron.
(20) Indian media have raised concerns that Beijing may ultimately embark on a gigantic diversion scheme that would channel water away from India to the dry northern plains of China, but such fears are dismissed by Tsering, who says the dam at Metog would be for hydropower, not water diversion.