Pleasure is an elephantine problem for virtually any non-hedonistic axiology: neither desire nor anything else seems capable of explaining its value.
Though the book had, according to its author, an 'elephantine gestation', it is not at all elephant-like in ponderousness or greyness.
We do not need a bloated, elephantine monstrosity of 1,300, which is what we had before we got rid of most of the hereditary peers.
I fully recognise their present financial difficulties and the elephantine demands of education throughout the country.
It is good to see one's baby born, but the process is elephantine.
We believe that a free and cohesive society is based on stable, clear, shared rules and not on elephantine bureaucracy.
At last—this is the most elephantine pregnancy ever.
This tendency on the part of headquarters staffs to elephantine growth, is becoming almost a law of nature.
