many-tentacled

For years sailors have told tales of monsters of the deep including the huge, many-tentacled kraken that could reach as high as a ship's mainmast and sink the biggest ships.

Tuning in to a deep sea monster : The Lovecraft News Network 2009

This is not only a no-brainer on stemming job losses; it has a many-tentacled constituency — elected officials from governors down to county supervisors and school boards, state and local government employees, contractors and their employees, folks who want their potholes filled and trash collected — that no member of Congress can afford to buck.

Matthew Yglesias » Krugman: Centrists Eliminated 600,000 Worth of Jobs From Stimulus Package 2009

And this is Twenty Mile, one tentacle of the many-tentacled P.C. Company.

THE STORY OF JEES UCK 2010

Although you might feel that these concepts only inhabit the human mind, some of them are so real and absolute that they mean precisely the same thing to us as they would to a clever many-tentacled alien floating on an icy exoplanet on the far side of the universe.

SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011

It is too big for a whale and one theory is that it is a deep sea monster, possibly a many-tentacled giant squid.

Tuning in to a deep sea monster : The Lovecraft News Network 2009

The many-tentacled fallout of this culture of high-stakes testing has been more and more apparent in the No Child Left Behind age, where curriculum-distortion, teacher - and student-burnout, and twisted administrative priorities are the norm in too many schools.

Dan Brown: The "Achilles Heel" of Education Reform is Slashed by Michael Bloomberg 2009

Wow, what an all-powerful, many-tentacled organization.

Not my fault « BuzzMachine 2009

Garner on The Dead Hand by David E. Hoffman: In 'The Dead Hand' he delivers a readable, many-tentacled account of the decades-long military standoff between the United States and the

Shelfari: Omnivoracious 2009

From beginning to end, the audience is riveted by the shots of high-energy youth chanting war-cries, wielding AK47s, gang-raping a woman broadcaster, and cruising into towns on jeeps, waving their arms like one many-tentacled monster.

Karin Badt: Child Soldiers on Film: ""Johnny Mad Dog" (II) 2009

Cameron built this up as a sclerotic leviathan, a many-tentacled ogre, spawned by Labour, suckled by welfarism, and currently stalking the land stifling hope, blighting businesses, ruining lives and forcing job-seekers with sprained ankles to register for disability benefit.

Dave will slay the Goliath-esque government 2009