Some praise its elegant lines and staggering height, while others view it as a gratuitous monument to power.
Watch the rise of One World Trade Center, including the installation of the spire, bringing it to a staggering height of 1,776 feet.
— The Maid of the Mist tour boats have plied the roiling waters of the Niagara Gorge since the 1840s, taking tens of millions of visitors, including the future King Edward VII (1860), Marilyn Monroe (1952) and Mikhail Gorbachev (1983), past the American Falls to the base of the Horseshoe Falls, whose staggering height and swirling mist feel almost biblical.
For the foreseeable future, right-to-buy transactions will increase in England, but will never reach the staggering heights of the 1980s for one reason: with fewer council homes built, there are fewer to sell.
Sales of these products are reaching staggering heights, with the industry projected to rake in nearly $2.8 billion in revenue by 2024, according to a 2017 report.
Considered the final act in "The Trilogy," alongside Disintegration and 1982's Pornography, the record may not fully measure up to those staggering heights but when it works, it shows that Smith is still capable of making good on his ambition.
Raymond Hood's masterpiece, the Rockefeller Centre, is the very definition of a complex that manages – paradoxically – to be both staggering in height and human in scale.
Place St.-Job is lined with old buildings whose floors aren't quite aligned with their neighbors, staggering building heights to charmingly ad hoc result; at the stand's picniclike tables I found a family and several couples sharing fries with mayonnaise.
With internet porn-consumption reaching staggering new heights each year, sadly, many of us are becoming desensitized to masturbation.
Despite declines in North America and Europe, according to a new study by the U.S. Energy Information Administration EIAA), world consumption of petroleum products in 2012 rose to record heights, a staggering 88.9 million barrels a day.
Their courage is quite staggering when you consider the height of the building and the 14 hours of intense effort it took to get to the top.
