How Rinat was able to contain so much staggered me.
Zombies are a commodity that has advanced slowly and without major evolution, much like the staggering creatures George Romero popularized in the 1968 film "Night of the Living Dead".
The success rate as reported by the Bacloville study is staggering – much higher than rehab centers or even spontaneous rates of recovery (a quarter of people addicted to alcohol eventually recover on their own, while many rehab rates do not even reach that number).
None the less, it is staggering how much one hit show can change a channel's image.
In a recent episode Charlie was flailing on the far side of Dean Martin drunk, staggering so much his brother put a biking helmet on his head.
People by now should hardly be surprised to learn that a powerful man and/or righteous scold is a dirty bird, but, even allowing for worldliness, the news was staggering — as much for the stupidity as for the sex.
But "it is staggering how much people still don't know" about AIDS in China, India and the former Soviet Union, where H.I.V. is being transmitted at alarming rates, Mr. Clinton said.
"I'm lucky to have been able to spend a lot of my life in places where there is virtually no noise pollution, and when you come home it's staggering how much noise there is.
It will not emerge from the tributes we will hear today, but it was also staggering how much he was reviled in his time, because he was not some gentle socialist guru, he was a political street fighter, warm in his friendships and harsh in his judgements.
With both parties having spent much of the past week staggering from one foreseeable disaster to the next, the first live TV leaders' debate – technically more of a live Q&A with the possibility of a brush past near the toilets – was mostly an exercise in damage limitation.
