Instead of ignoring the staggering truth about his friends' behavior, I strengthened my resolve to help them.
It wasn't just this teenager who recognised the staggering truth behind that performance and its implications for the actor.
And, by the way, here's a staggering truth about this government: the fact that the chancellor of the exchequer and the welfare secretary can work together and deliver programmes like this and talk to each other is itself a sign that we have a functional government that is working for hardworking people.
Wendy's work overflows with priceless wit and staggering truths that cut right to our hearts.
He is never troubled by the funny coincidence that this one staggering cosmic truth also happens to be the established religion of his own tribe, supported by every institution of the state, and reinforced by the university he works in, the "God-fearing and God-sustaining University of Oxford," as Gladstone called it.
That is a staggering lapse, but in truth, the problem isn't third down, it's first and second downs.
Yet, as Anaïs Nin reminds us, "There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination.
Her 2012 piece, Deconstructing Lana Del Rey, is a staggering example that cuts through cynicism to find the truth behind the singer's consummately constructed artifice.
But I suppose therein lies a truth: in this particular context, it doesn't matter if there's a staggering fissure between what a thing really means and what someone else wants it to mean.
The White House gets blamed for its departures from truth, but in the last months the Republican leadership in Congress has demonstrated its own staggering (and disturbing) deftness at sending inconvenient history into this new version of Orwell's "memory hole".
In truth, America can't seem to build its prisons fast enough to accommodate the staggering weight of this immense and ever-growing pile of failed and rejected children.
