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Tag Name "Colossal" (61)

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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.
Jack London
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The stakes are immense, the task colossal, the time is short. But we may hope - we must hope - that man's own creation, man's own genius, will not destroy him.
Albert Einstein
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tasteful and colossal are - in movies, at least - basically antipathetic.
Pauline Kael
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The most fearful phenomenon of these midcentury years is not the atom bomb atomic energy does have its constructive possibilities.... The most fearful event of these times is the colossal expansion of the government of the United States and the constant increase of executive power within the government.
Wheeler McMillen
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'A Princess of Mars' may not have exerted the same colossal pull that Tarzan had on the global imagination, but its influence on generations of readers cannot be underestimated.
Junot Diaz
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Well, then, since you say there will be another life for me, let us both pray I do not make as colossal a mess of it as I have this one.
Cassandra Clare
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What the problem was was this colossal redundancy, the squandering of brilliant technique on cheap material.
Alan Hollinghurst
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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.
Salman Rushdie
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So commit! Commit yourself to pushing through the fear and becoming more than you are at the present moment. The you that could be is absolutely colossal.
Susan Jeffers
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The colossal mess in Vatican finances that [Pope] Francis inherited has been cleaned up, and cleaned out. Real budgeting and accounting procedures are in place so are real professionals, not somebody's nephew.
George Weigel
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An event of colossal and overwhelming significance may happen all at once, but the words which describe it have to come one by one in a long chain.
Upton Sinclair
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If you can't laugh at yourself, you may be missing the colossal joke of the century.
Barry Humphries
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The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
Carl Sandburg
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