Geron began to assemble a staggering intellectual-property portfolio in a field with almost limitless medical potential.
I suspect that the Ben Bernanke of 1999 would characterise this as a moral and intellectual failure of staggering proportions.
It takes imagination, a knowledge of history, a certain analytical coldness, an ability to hold contradictory ideas in one's head at the same time, intellectual courage, and prolonged immersion in staggering depths of facts.
The Atlantic, a magazine we usually pore over for its innovative intellectual content, posted a story today on a "staggering" new trend: women are waxing off their pubic hair.
She presents herself as an intellectual, alludes to her "cerebral nature", and lards her account of staggering sexual promiscuity with references to contemporary art, metaphysical musings on the nature of perception and aesthetic theory.
The breadth of the work is staggering, and the amount of research that went into its discussion of every major intellectual figure and conceptual player in the species debates from Plato onward is readily apparent at every turn.
Their dishonesty was staggering".
"The volume is staggering".
His potential's staggering".
