Apparently not: so apart from everything else he is a loveable prostitute addict who is so fabulously wealthy he can make these staggering gifts of money in a serial manner without anyone noticing.
But it brings in a ringer from another of those "Messiah" performances, Robert Crowe, a male soprano of staggering gifts who was perhaps the prime asset of Millennial Arts' bizarre staging of Handel's oratorio, here as the prince, Idamante.
So when Mr. Bailey, who died in July at 88, left a staggering $60 million gift to the modest Methodist church in which he grew up but which he had not attended in more than 24 years, it came as a stunning surprise to strangers, but not much of one to those who knew him well.
So he listened, was impressed, invited the teenager for a meeting and decided, as he later told me, that here was "a staggering, natural, physical gift".
Gift card projections for this year are staggering: –NRF is projecting gift card purchases of $25 billion this holiday season, up from $18.5 billion last year.
Mr. LeClerc repeatedly used the word "staggering" to describe Mr. Schwarzman's gift, which was given without any conditions.
Several men seemed to be wearing identical suits and identical ties, and none of them carried any hand luggage on the plane, in stark contrast to the South Koreans who went north nearly staggering under tote bags jammed with gifts.
That staggering sum would certainly be a nice farewell gift before Mayweather begins serving a 90-day jail sentence on June 1 resulting from a domestic violence charge.
Theater Charles Isherwood It's hard to imagine a more appealing theatrical gift for the holidays than a new comedy by Alan Ayckbourn, the British playwright whose staggering output — this is his 75th play — often overshadows the satisfactions of his work.
It's hard to imagine a more appealing theatrical gift for the holidays than a new comedy by Alan Ayckbourn, the British playwright whose staggering output -- this is his 75th play -- often overshadows the satisfactions of his work.
