brobdingnagian

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This miracle of miniaturization, which makes the traditional Lord's Prayer engraved on a pinhead seem downright brobdingnagian, can cram 1,000,000 book pages on a stack of 3-in. by 5-in. index cards about 4 in. high.

From Time Magazine Archive

That is the $56 billion scheme for safeguarding the proposed MX system, a brobdingnagian shell game meant to foil a Soviet attack on the missiles.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the oil game everything from supertankers as long as three football fields to offshore drilling rigs as tall as the Empire State Building is brobdingnagian.

From Time Magazine Archive

Since then, South Viet Nam's military machine has grown to brobdingnagian proportions.

From Time Magazine Archive

At the farther end which led to the main corridor, Lydie, to her chagrin, caught sight of Lady Eglinton's brobdingnagian back.

From Petticoat Rule by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness