gigantesque

• After much acrimonious debate, this beautiful but deeply troubled Latin American nation is being asked to approve a gigantesque constitution (it contains 444 articles) as part of President Rafael Correa's effort to reshape Ecuador in his own leftist image. —  HACER Weekly News Report
• Guaranteeing their assets will, in fact, solve a solvency problem -- at gigantesque expense. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
• Balzac protested strenuously against the use of the word "gigantesque" in reference to his work; and of course it is susceptible of an unhandsome innuendo. —  The Human Comedy: Introductions and Appendix
• But if we leave that innuendo aside, if we adopt the sane reflection that "gigantesque" does not exceed "gigantic," or assert as constant failure of greatness, but only indicates that the magnifying process is carried on with a certain indiscriminateness, we shall find none, I think, which so thoroughly well describes him The effect of this singular combination of qualities, apparently the most opposite, may be partly anticipated, but not quite. —  The Human Comedy: Introductions and Appendix
• On the contrary, on his vast shoulders and shape generally gigantesque, his head looked oddly and unnaturally small. —  Manalive

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