It's a staggering way to start the V&A's new permanent display of European arts and crafts from the age of Caravaggio to the defeat of Napoleon.
Nature photographer Helmut Ignat had been spending a year photographing Văcărești's wildlife; his pictures showed that over the two decades since the infrastructure project had been abandoned, nature had developed within the low-lying land in a staggering way, creating a genuine ecosystem whose diversity came as a shock to many people.
Mr. Zorn is celebrating his 50th birthday at Tonic in the same staggering way he celebrated his 40th: by putting on a full month of performances of widely varied music, from chamber works to free jazz to whatever you call Painkiller.
It might go down in history as the most staggering way to keep thousands of jobs without sacrificing a dime of revenue the city was anticipating.
The repetition, in each stanza, of the previous stanza's second and fourth lines as first and third, gives the effect of retracing steps in an uncertain, slightly staggering gait – the way you might walk if you were feeling dizzy, or if you were navigating between obstacles.
One close observer of the climate talks said the $400bn subsidies devoted to fossil fuels, uncovered by the IEA, were "staggering", and the way in which these subsidies distort the market presented a massive problem in encouraging the move to renewables.
In a country of less than ten million people, that's a pretty staggering number any way you look at it.
Environmentalists have repeatedly pointed out that what Americans really consume, in a staggering variety of ways, shapes and paint jobs, is a diminishing store of natural resources.
The staggering number of ways that cyber thieves try every day to get at the good stuff inside the databases of companies should be sufficient warning, says Rowland Johnson from security testing and compliance firm Nettitude.
The point is, there is a staggering assortment of ways and schemes to get got by the bad guys.
As Aggrawal's classification scheme makes clear, there are a staggering variety of ways to accomplish this, ranging from those who achieve sexual stimulation from simply touching a dead body (Class IV), to those who mutilate dead bodies while masturbating (Class VI), to homicidal necrophiles (Class IX), who are so desperate to have sex with a body that they will kill the living to achieve this.
