From about 128 km away, they hauled huge basalt boulders, from which to carve colossal heads, and nearly 100 other sculptures.
Earthquakes reflect the means whereby continents are assembled and broken apart, sometimes involving slivers migrating vast distances, and colossal rejigging of surface environments.
This was a colossal failure, where cynical manipulation, massive corruption, and state terror derailed an expensive attempt to impose ' democracy ' from above.
Roman artists focused on memorable urban objects actually experienced by viewers, including external walls, temples, porticos and colossal statues.
This book is witness to the quite colossal contribution these workers have made.
The dye was thus a useful measure of "truly colossal" reducing power in the living organism.
Also, the years of observation, where no two prints from different people had ever been found to have the same details, became a colossal endorsement of this scientific fact.
The feeling for the colossal power of the man, and the perception of the sheer awfulness of much of the music - it's very hard to reconcile these things.