Sentences with phrase «on a colossal scale»

It's bold, divisive filmmaking on a colossal scale.

Thus over-population, starvation and malnutrition in the poorer countries; worsening sanitation in large urban areas; and the unintended effects of advancing technology — all have the potential to bring new and deadly diseases, and pandemics on a colossal scale.

Starvation on a colossal scale is one of the more probable global catastrophes.

I have no particular party allegiance — I hate what the Tories have done, flogging off Britain's national wealth to the highest bidder and mismanaging the economy on a colossal scale — but can not stomach Jeremy Corbyn and his team.

A cosmic phenomenon on a colossal scale, resulting from the acceleration of a gas cloud by a black hole and its reacceleration by the shock waves from the merging of two galaxy clusters, has been observed, described and interpreted by an international collaboration of astronomers that included three Brazilians: Felipe Andrade - Santos, Vinicius Moris Placco, and Rafael Miloni Santucci.

This essential documentary skillfully maps out the shady «mark to market» accounting device that the men who called themselves «the smartest guys in the room» used to commit corporate fraud on a colossal scale.

Characteristics of this movement include works on a colossal scale which are sometimes intense, spontaneous, and extraordinarily expressive, while other times they are more contemplative through the use of vast color fields.

But the implication is that the current drought may be worse than normal because of the release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere by the combustion of fossil fuels on a colossal scale: the researchers make the link only tentatively.

It'll cause a massive disruption of the planet's ecosphere on a colossal scale.

Future spending cuts would be «on a colossal scale».

Still, Passengers is lucidly directed by Morten Tyldum, the Norwegian whose first English - language feature was The Imitation Game, and the production design by Guy Hendrix Dyas, who won a Bafta for his work on Inception, is strikingly good, particularly all the elements that are not space - rockety but cruise - linery, giant malls and lavish cabins, all on a colossal scale.

They are immense swirls of redness, charismatic scribbles written in blood, on a colossal scale: perhaps the last great masterpieces of abstract expressionism.