There should be a colossal mother going about the world to turn men over her lap and give them the slipper. They pine for it.
We live in an age where the rate of change has been colossal. Colossal. Almost every week there's some transformation of some kind, whether technological or political or scientific, whatever. And I think it's bewildering to human beings to live in a time when they can't take anything as fixed - when everything is shifting and changing all the time.
Our moon was born too small to harbor life. It came from the collision of a Mars-sized world into the primordial Earth. From that colossal crunch spun a disk of rocks that condensed into a satellite.
You just don't go out when you're over 55 years of age, have a colossal failure, and expect to find work in your field again.
One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn't merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.
Maybe somewhere in some other galaxy there is a super-intelligence so colossal that from our point of view it would be a god. But it cannot have been the sort of God that we need to explain the origin of the universe, because it cannot have been there that early.
But under it all they were men, penetrating the land of desolation and mockery and silence, puny adventurers bent on colossal adventure, pitting themselves against the might of a world as remote and alien and pulseless as the abysses of space.
Why should clothes be made of only one size? If you see across the globe, people of all sizes are there. Clothes are of all sizes, so the display on the ramp should also be of all sizes.
We live in the time of the colossal upright oblong.
I can't be satisfied with the colossal job of merely living.
It's such a colossal effort not to be haunted by what's lost, but to be enchanted by what was.
Negro slavery is an evil of colossal magnitude.
The first book that a child reads has a colossal impact.
The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
Having these colossal accolades and titles, they get in the way.
tasteful and colossal are - in movies, at least - basically antipathetic.