However, legend of its badness had, by this point, reached such a height that the audience had a real "all in this together" vibe, as though we were about to go through some kind of theatrical blitzkrieg and had to keep calm, carry on and eat overpriced wasabi peas to present a united front.
The exuberance of opposition subsequently reached such a height, however, that we are now living out the consequences of losing our hold on the values which pre-romantic cultural traditions sought to conserve.
"The last time a totally eclipsed Moon reached such a height from New York City, John Adams was our President," says Rao, referring to the second President of the United States, who was in office from 1797 to 1801.
This had brought him into association with Claudius Pompeianus, through whose influence he had become a tribune in the cavalry, and had reached such a height that he now was actually the emperor of his former patron.
The bad feeling reached such a height that the Polícia Judiciária officer who coordinated the investigation from May to October 2007, Chief Inspector Gonçalo Amaral, resigned in June 2008 to write a book alleging that Madeleine had died in an accident in the apartment and that the McCanns had faked the abduction.
But here we are in the midst of much hoopla about the United States soccer team in the quarterfinals of the World Cup -- the first time it has reached such heights since Hoover was president.
Now, the clown fear has reached such extreme heights that an 11-year-old girl in Georgia was arrested after she brought a knife to school for protection against a possible killer clown encounter.
Even so, only a filmmaker with a naïve, blinkered view both of journalism and human nature, and with so little grasp of what can happen when youthful ambition meets institutional self-importance, could have been surprised by a Stephen Glass or reached such dizzying heights of outrage.
Talk magazine never reached such manic heights again, as it failed to become part of the New York-Beltway-L.A. conversation.
A society that is a clear reflection of its straying youth with weak morals has reached such low heights that now individuals have stopped respecting teachers as well.
He also said it was the second time since that superstorm that the floodwaters had reached such unusual heights.
