Citations:biblical

English citations of biblical

Adjective: very great

• 1982, Henry Kissinger, Years of Upheaval,

  To have striven so hard, to have molded a public personality out of so amorphous an identity, to have sustained that superhuman effort only to end with every weakness disclosed and every error compounding the downfall—that was a fate of biblical proportions.

• 1992, George Herbert Walker Bush, "State of the Union Address,"

  We gather tonight at a dramatic and deeply promising time in our history, and in the history of man on earth. For in the past 12 months, the world has known changes of almost biblical proportions. And even now, months after the failed coup that doomed a failed system, I am not sure we have absorbed the full impact, the full import of what happened.

• 2002, Tim Larimer, "Cult Shock," Time, 1 July,

  During a thundershower of biblical proportions, hundreds of people dash from a train station in the Tokyo suburb of Kawaguchi, across a bricked plaza and into a modern civic center.

• 2003, Roxanne Roberts, "The Mysteries of Mary Magdalene," Washington Post, 20 July, p. D01,

  The Da Vinci Code resurrects a debate of biblical proportions.

• 2003, Arthur M. Lesk, "From electrons to proteins and back again," International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, vol. 95, no. 6, p. 679,

  He also drilled into us that all the secrets of the structure of matter were implicit in Charlotte Moore's tables, which assumed an authority and role of biblical proportions.

• 2005, Ted Kennedy, "Bush Nominates Robert as Chief Justice," CNN, 6 Sep.,

  In the midst of a national disaster of biblical proportions, it is difficult for the American people to participate fully in the selection of the next chief justice.