Anyone who thinks that we can nationalise the land without spending a colossal sum of public money is really living in a fool's paradise.
After refilling and restoration there is a colossal waste of money in going to that site to obtain another coal measure from it.
We shall require a colossal national effort if the forces of democracy are to be rallied.
The entire story of the conquistadors is an object lesson in what can be achieved by taking colossal risks, by flaunting meagre resources in the face of unbelievable odds.
Wren's architecture had suddenly metamorphosed into a colossal musical instrument - a massive resonating structure!
He was a pioneer in the pathologic aspects of both congenital and acquired cardiovascular diseases, and had the colossal ability to put the pathologic findings in their appropriate clinical perspective.
These societies are consequently entangled in a colossal prisoner's dilemma that not only perpetuates but also escalates a praetorian game that is inimical to democratic consolidation.
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.
