(it sounds even bigger in French: gigantesque!) egg in its loss to Iowa (Iowa!) on Wednesday. From Wordnik.com. [Deadspin] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Human Comedy: Introductions and Appendix] Reference
The bouchère offers Jackie a gigantesque slice of salami. From Wordnik.com. [Words in a French Life] Reference
Quant à POPPOT personne n'a soupçonné sa complicité dans ce crime gigantesque. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 28, 1891] Reference
There was something, too, in its order, by which it resembled the gigantesque features of the old Greek master. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863] Reference
J'ai du mal à croire qu'à terme, un chercheur puisse se passer de cette gigantesque bibliothèque, de ce formidable outil. From Wordnik.com. [Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas] Reference
It has none of the wild features of grandeur which one associates with comparatively unknown streams, in a country where all is gigantesque. From Wordnik.com. [Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada] Reference
My best guess at this point is that with gigantesque federal deficits the supply of Treasury instruments will completely overwhelm demand for them. From Wordnik.com. ["We could lose a generation of potential and promise..."] Reference
The word which to us best recalls such gigantesque idiocy is the word "mafficking.". From Wordnik.com. [Alarms and Discursions] Reference
Guaranteeing their assets will, in fact, solve a solvency problem -- at gigantesque expense. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
A certain grandeur of movement alone can preserve its gigantesque quality and impression of power. From Wordnik.com. [Musical Memories] Reference
Balzac does, and from this very accumulation he manages to derive that singular gigantesque vagueness. From Wordnik.com. [The Human Comedy: Introductions and Appendix] Reference
Two or three gigantesque meeting-houses, featureless and sombre, domineer over the roofs around them. From Wordnik.com. [Uppingham by the Sea a Narrative of the Year at Borth] Reference
Thus unfriendly critics, and of these he has had no lack, might style his novels gigantesque, rather than great. From Wordnik.com. [Criticisms and Interpretations. II. By Andrew Lang] Reference
The plans of Charlemagne died with him; those of Richelieu were mistaken; those of Napoleon gigantesque and frantic. From Wordnik.com. [The English Constitution] Reference
All this gigantesque imagination, which is, perhaps, the mightiest of the pleasures of man, is at bottom entirely humble. From Wordnik.com. [Orthodoxy] Reference
Above all, he never falls into the error, common to merely elegant minds, of painting leading minds “en gigantesque.”. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli]
Ce n'était pas une guerre à Gaza, mais un gigantesque massacre car la population déjà affaiblie par un long siège, n'avait aucun moyen de défense. From Wordnik.com. [open Democracy News Analysis - Comments] Reference
This idea somewhat satisfies me, as conveying an impression how gigantesque the campanile is in its mass and height, and how minute and varied in its detail. From Wordnik.com. [Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 1.] Reference
Landor, on the other hand, whom he visited later at Bath, he appreciated, being "much taken with the gigantesque, explosive but essentially chivalrous and almost heroic old man.". From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Carlyle] Reference
32 - Une gigantesque fraude sur les autorisations de mise sur le marché de médicaments. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Photown News] Reference
As Smythe took the handles and they turned the great corner of the street, Angus was amused to see a gigantesque poster of "Smythe's. From Wordnik.com. [The Innocence of Father Brown] Reference
Angelo’s figures are all gigantesque and ideal, like those of Æschylos. From Wordnik.com. [Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3] Reference
Ce monument, aussi gigantesque qu’impuissant, arreterait bien les incursions de quelques. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference
The humour of both of them is gigantesque. From Wordnik.com. [Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens] Reference
Le fleuve Elbe est devenu une gigantesque passerelle bleu marine - la couleur des marins. http://www. thenewsmarket.com/HamburgMarketing. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News from SYS-CON MEDIA] Reference
Diablesse gigantesque, aux boyaux d'airain. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 16, 1892] Reference
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