It was one of the more staggering moments of my life, and, seeing my face, my slightly stricken interviewer quickly began phoning around to check whether the certification was acceptable.
Those staggering, eye-rolling moments may grate for a modern audience, but the melodramatic tone is leavened by a cluster of minor characters: velvet-jacketed bohemian types who loiter voyeuristically in cafes and parlours, nudging each other in the ribs and masking clumsy exits when things get nasty.
The UK-based company has 4.5 million users right now that have sent out a staggering 50 billion moments using the service (if that number seems unbelievable, read on).
"The popularity of dance at the moment is staggering," she said, "and it is dance right across the board.
Bobby Mimms' entry into the hall of shame was guaranteed after a moment of staggering ineptitude at Loftus Road.
He effectively cuts his own conscience loose, and the effects are staggering; it's a moment on a par with Walter White letting Jane choke on her own vomit.
Siegfried's Funeral Music, from "Götterdämmerung," was played at Lenin's memorial, in 1924 — a moment captured to staggering effect in Dziga Vertov's "Three Songs About Lenin".
The longest word in the English language (leaving literature to one side for a moment) is a staggering 189,819 letters long.
His latest show, Y'all So Stupid, contains moments of such staggering genius that we felt compelled to sit down and go through it with him..
And while its bankruptcy appeared increasingly likely in recent weeks, the arrival of the moment is still a staggering blow, particularly for anyone with ties to the company.
