larger than life

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The heyday of Britain’s Victorian empire spawned many larger-than-life personalities, but few of them rivaled Col.

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When the event’s signature balloons were introduced in the late 1920s, wranglers simply released the larger-than-life characters into the sky.

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Cue is especially gregarious, a larger-than-life type who loves sports, cars—he sits on Ferrari’s board—and is known as a dealmaker for Apple.

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Cord became controlling owner of the Auburn Automobile Co. of Auburn, Ind. Cord was an impresario still in his early 30s, a larger-than-life guy who built a mansion in Beverly Hills called Cordhaven.

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The star was also in a constant battle with stage fright—a startling admission for a larger-than-life performer with a reputation for spooky, unnerving antics.

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