immenseness

“And just the immenseness of the place, and how far it goes back.”

Those who create the memorials describe a tension: On the one side, the desire to represent the almost inconceivable number of victims in a way that illustrates the immenseness of all that has been lost.

Many of them had attended Barack Obama’s inauguration and were palpably shocked by the immenseness of the crowd—visual evidence, it seemed at the time, that all of America had sided against them.

The broomsticks were just part of Brown’s approach: fight to ensure his players understood the immenseness of the opportunity in front of them.

Yet that immenseness badly wounded General Electric in the wake of Lehman’s demise, when the market upheaval left the conglomerate hard-pressed to borrow debt for its day-to-day operations.