THE hulking Olimpiysky Stadium in Kiev, renovated at a cost of almost $600m and reopened last year, was a monument to Ukraine's integration with Europe.
Eavesdropping on the conversation in " Officer and Laughing Girl" , you see the girl's bright grin but the features of the hulking officer are obscure.
Outside, the snow was coming down more heavily. Across the yard the King's Tower had turned into a hulking shadow, the lights in its windows obscured by falling snow.
After the second world war, when American firebombing razed Tokyo again, planners tried to impose order, erecting hulking concrete expressways over the canals that had earned Edo comparisons to Venice.