11. His inspired words bestride the world with such ease, touching the deepest sensibilities of human beings everywhere . 12. Hobbes, the live tiger who feigns stuffiness for the uninitiated, bestrides the Great Divide separating children from adults. 13. Bill Clinton is not suddenly bestriding the earth like a Colossus, exhibiting the will to mobilize collective defense against aggression. 14. You should be, because bestriding this situation like a green-eyeshade-wearing colossus is the Internal Revenue Service. 15. There are men ( and women ) who bestride the everyday business world like behemoths in spit-polished Kenneth Coles. 16. Britain's Sunday Times hailed the American economy this week as " bestriding the world like a Colossus ." 17. In his cramped space, which resembles a professor's den, a black toy cow wearing beads bestrides a bookcase. 18. It's happening again with John Deutch, the former MIT provost who now bestrides the National Security Council like a Colossus. 19. At the unlikely age of 24, bestriding an international stage, he gave every indication that the prodigy had become a grandmaster. 20. She breaks chains, bestrides a globe, rescues a scantily dressed couple from the Uncle Ben's and Aunt Jemima labels.