Had they not made a mistake so stupid as to beggar imagination, they might well have gotten away with it.
It beggars the imagination".
It beggars the imagination, and is below.
It beggars the imagination that DeVine would not have tried either to escape or to come to the aid of Lisa Lambert and Teena Brandon.
Given that, it beggars the imagination that the U.S. Navy has a fleet of ships that will burn to the waterline when hit, and yet their doctrine today calls for them to go in and fight at eyeball range.
It beggars the imagination to believe that General Augusto Pinochet needed, let alone wanted, these well-mannered, striped-tie-wearing Yankees with so-so Spanish getting involved in his business.
Given what Pinto and his brothers were doing in 1960, it beggars my imagination what catastrophic antics their predecessors were up to; in fact, I dont want to know.
Living sharks are among the most beautiful creatures in the world, but the idea that the American hedge fund broker Steve Cohen, out of a hypnotised form of culture-snobbery, would pay an alleged $12m for a third of a tonne of shark, far gone in decay, is so risible that it beggars the imagination.
Living sharks are among the most beautiful creatures in the world, but the idea that the American hedge fund broker Steve Cohen would pay an alleged $12m£7.7m7m) for a third of a tonne of shark, far gone in decay, is so risible that it beggars the imagination.
It beggars the imagination to believe that the now tens of thousands of people purged and arrested -- police, army, judges, lawyers, teachers, bankers, journalists -- are all terrorist enemies of the state.
Indeed, it beggars the imagination that a nation with a 40-1 edgeomic edge, 2-1 populadvantageantage, significant technological lead, dramatically larger industrial base, more resilient infrastructure, and vastly stronger international position could not build the military necessary to deter its far weaker antagonist.
