21.   Since his name surfaced two months ago, Nunn has been a favorite to win the job, because he is such a towering figure in British theater.

22.   Such action took courage, and it made Johnson a towering figure in the fight for civil rights.

23.   That skill made Dole a master legislator and a towering national figure, but it is not the best attribute to win the White House.

24.   The eponymous hero of this epic is described as a towering figure who could uproot any tree and hurl boulders from the heights of the Tian Shan mountain range.

25.   The list of towering figures of the Soviet Union who have receded into the past is a long one.

26.   The point is, Reagan was such a towering figure he could contradict himself coming and going.

27.   The towering figure in black cowboy hat halts IHOP diners in mid-omelet as he ambles down the aisle.

28.   Then he returned to Austria to study art history and archaeology at the University of Vienna with Julius von Schlosser, a towering figure of that era.

29.   Thompson is a towering figure in more ways than one.

30.   Thomas Mann is a towering figure in world literature, but is somewhat forbidding for readers who do not warm to a challenge.