What is "stupendous"

Usage examples of "stupendous".

Most of the masses, whose projectors were fed by comparatively few accumulator cells, darted away entire with a stupendous acceleration.

This had to be a cultural misunderstanding of stupendous, humongous, proportions.

Doubtless many a one has at times felt the stupendous truths of astronomy thus palsying him with a crushing sense of his own nothingness and burying him in fatalistic despair.

Little or no retouching was necessary in the case of the stupendous flights of steps that were found leading up to the door of this prehistoric royal residence, and which are the first of the many sights the visitor of to-day may see.

I were to dwell at length on the various stupendous developments of the imagination of Tintoret in the Scuola di San Rocco alone.

And as he entered the modest foyer, which was a pleasant but nevertheless gently jolting contrast to those of the chain-store caravanserais to which he had latterly become accustomed, the Saint had been musing on the stupendous changes that had subvened in the two-and-a-half decades since the missing major had last been heard from.

He watched in real-time as the alpha synth ship raced ahead under stupendous acceleration, increasing its already enormous velocity by more than twenty-two kilometers per second with every second.

It was here likewise, in a place where the distance between the opposite banks cannot exceed five hundred paces, that Xerxes imposed a stupendous bridge of boats, for the purpose of transporting into Europe a hundred and seventy myriads of barbarians.

While I was quite sure that she had no more idea whete Laythe lay than I, yet we stumbled on and on and on, through the most stupendous mountain ranges that the mind of man can conceive, nor ever, apparently, did Nah-ee-lah discover a single familiar landmark upon which to hang a shred of hope that eventually we might come upon Laythe.

According to the system of Brahmanism, the creation is regularly called into being and again destroyed at the beginning and end of certain stupendous epochs called kalpas.

For a moment Cho thought she was going to see something stupendous, but the heads approached the far side of the inlet and separated, shouldering water aside, producing long legs, glistening backs and trailing tails.

It was on this spot, after stupendous labor, that the Columbiad was cast with full success.

But the loss of one mystery was amply compensated by the stupendous doctrines of original sin, redemption, faith, grace, and predestination, which have been strained from the epistles of St.

Being there was a little like being inside a stupendous honeycomb made of dozens of transparent globes, with a large spherical clearing at the center, in which danced two or three dozen small table-spheres, fuzzy with Velcro.

Above arched a dim sky like a stupendous inverted hollow cup of dimmest jade .