To such a man a funeral is a colossal financial disaster.

This is a colossal disaster of an update.

"We have never had such a colossal disaster like this one," Mr. Shilo said.

Sorkin, bobbing his head and smiling maniacally at the floor, confesses to Zucker that he is sure the episode will be a colossal disaster.

"It was a colossal disaster," the mayor acknowledged recently.

He was balancing how to convert this colossal disaster into something useful when there was a harsh rap of heels.

A trembling woman, she felt even as I the shadow of colossal disaster deepening with inevitable swiftness over us.

The strategy was a colossal disaster.

We tend to forget quickly in these multimedia news-saturated days, but we should remember the colossal disaster that was Katrina.

But if colossal disasters ensue, many experts say that the public may demand that the Government step in, perhaps by regulating programmers.