McClung published in 1901: "Using a courtship analogy wherein the many spermatic suitors courted the egg in its ovarian parlour, McClung...stated that the egg 'is able to attract that form of spermatozoon which will produce an individual of the sex most desirable to the welfare of the species.'" Such assaults upon the outdated and the innocuous coexist with pretensions to cutting-edge sophistication that are
staggeringly bogus.
ABODY formed to lobby for better transport in the North has been "
staggeringly shortsighted" by excluding Teesside, an MP has angrily claimed.
Fifa 15 PS4 PS49.99 IT'S
staggeringly realistic football that truly deserves a fanfare.
? AND the
staggeringly unfortunate choice of advert halfway into C4's Notes From The Inside With James Rhodes, in which the classical pianist performed pieces of music at a psychiatric hospital to aid four patients in their recovery...
Her work is equal parts icicle-fragile and lit dynamite, and more and more, she proves herself to be a
staggeringly vibrant young voice.
Indeed, Jeremy's choice of vehicle for the jaunt is both sublime and ridiculous - the Lexus LFA, which has a
staggeringly high-revving V10 powerplant engine.
A five minute ride on the Emirates Air Line costs just pounds 3.20 with an Oyster Card and offers a
staggeringly beautiful view of the city.
"
Staggeringly ill-informed." - Admiral Sir John (Sandy) Woodward, whose task force retook the Falkland Islands from Argentina, on the defence cuts.
Speaking following a thanksgiving service at Westminster Abbey the Prince also praised the "
staggeringly special" people of the UK.
Staggeringly, a Leeds man complained to me last week they'll now need 105 points for promotion.
What is astonishing is not that the viewers were ripped off but that the phone-in was so
staggeringly successful.
The spirit of Ed Wood lives on in this
staggeringly inept adaptation of Ray Bradbury's Butterfly Effect sci fi tale in which thrill seekers in the future are taken back in time to hunt dinosaurs, only for something to go awry when one of them interacts with the environment, thereby altering the whole time-space continuum.
When the Pan Am Building was completed, in 1963, we learn from Meredith Clausen's meticulously well-observed, elegiac study, it could legitimately claim to be the world's biggest, most ambitious, most
staggeringly modern edifice: It boasted the largest mortgage ever, the most steel ever ordered for a single construction job, the largest internal transportation system (sixty-three high-speed elevators), and more square footage than any other office building.