Sentence examples for staggering act from inspiring English sources

Brian Altman QC, prosecuting, said: "In a staggering act of depravity and cruelty, they both forced the others to take part in the assaults upon Kristy.

Being a toddler, she toddled a bit; she knocked over a bottle of Dettol spray, and in a staggering act of pre-school vandalism, broke the nozzle.

Hannah Verdier Lynne Ramsay and co-writer Rory Kinnear's adaptation of Lionel Shriver's bestseller is an extraordinary account of a mother trying to fathom how she raised a manipulative monster who committed a staggering act of random violence.

In a "staggering act of depravity and cruelty", the defendants recruited sibling against sibling as "vehicles for their violence", with Kristy's brother forced to stand guard to make sure he did not escape.

All are major works of both musicology and oral history, especially the Morton recordings, a staggering act of informal jazz scholarship as told by a man who was present for the creation.

That staggering act was, the judge claimed, in no way in violation of the Fourth Amendment or of American privacy.

In some primarily antimodern forms, millennial movements can become highly authoritarian, suffused with conspiratorial thinking, implacably opposed to imagined enemies (e.g., Jews, independent women, denominational opponents), and capable of staggering acts of violence and self-destruction.

Various camps come prepared to serve up staggering acts of generosity, giving away clothing and alcohol, Vietnamese iced coffee and New Orleans-style gumbo.

Stigwood, who was born in South Australia, worked with a staggering number of groundbreaking acts, both on the Broadway stage and on the pop charts.

That's a staggering number!

It's a staggering number.