A truly titanic buckyball might be big enough to see with the naked eye.

All are valid criteria, but none alone is sufficient to encompass the scale and severity of truly titanic typhoons; that requires a holistic approach, one that takes into account the wide array of tangible and intangible harms wrought by their havoc.

When he got to the top of the tree, he could see the bottom of a truly titanic ring.

Mr. Maazel went beyond that: particularly in the military sections and in the wrenching final pages, it was possible to forget the lore and think of Strauss's hero as truly titanic.

"These were years of truly titanic nervous stress which required the whole of his spiritual and physical forces," the agency said.

(Brantley) 'FROST/NIXON'Frank Langella turns in a truly titanic performance as Richard M. Nixon in Peter Morgan's briskly entertaining, if all-too-tidy, play about the former president's annihilating television interviews with the British talk show host David Frost (the excellent Michael Sheen).

Most of the credit for this victory belongs to a truly titanic performance from the man playing the famously sweaty victim of a cool medium.