of biblical proportions

of biblical proportions
a) Of or pertaining to a natural disaster or other cataclysmic event so immense that it brings to mind biblical accounts of horrific catastrophes.

The tsunami wrought destruction of biblical proportions.

b) By extension, of or pertaining to a thing or occurrence having vast size, extent, or consequences.

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.


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