What more can we learn about the universe from a stupefying experimental feat observing a stupefying wonder of nature?
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Texas has been growing at a stupefying rate for decades.
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When the news of Michael's arrest came, it was stupefying.
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" After tackling the Bible with his stupefying play "Das 1.
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It's time, after this wretched and stupefying past week, to allay them.
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That it took the festival this long to meet that milestone is stupefying.
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I yanked-out the map and scanned its stupefying squiggles for a clue.
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But on her solo debut, Howard is stupefying in her confidence and convictions.
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"Son of Saul" approaches its stupefying subject in a way that echoes Kierkegaard's imperative.
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"You come out feeling stunned by so much beauty, such stupefying quality," he said.
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When you boil it down, supremacy is stupefying: always the same hero, same villain.
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"The brutality and the totally unexpected character of what is happening are stupefying," he said.
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And there's an even more stupefying one: Is Jeremy Irons even on the same show?
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But to our friends at Merriam-Webster it was stupefying, reptilian and most of all... OVER.
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He's self-important, entitled — a man whose fate has been overdetermined by his stupefying good looks.
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This is why the age of Trump is so maddening and stupefying: He is warping reality.
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But the fact there are people out there who believe it didn't happen is downright stupefying.
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In the stupefying heat, there was neither electricity nor running water, but there was beauty and community.
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And, more important than my subjective tastes, the dynamic range I'm seeing here is a little stupefying.
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Victory. But Morgan did not accept defeat, not with so much more stupefying misogyny yet to be expressed.
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But when all those shots are strung together, the result is so stupefying as to be almost unwatchable.
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Boris Johnson, now the foreign secretary, said he betrayed a "stupefying ignorance" and branded him "unfit" to lead America.
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And yet unlike traditional winter meals, dinner at So Kong Dong doesn't have a stupefying effect; quite the opposite.
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In the meantime, Passengers wasn't the only movie or TV series to put out a stupefying trailer this week.
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In 2015, he accused Trump, then a candidate for office, of "stupefying ignorance" that made him unfit to be president.
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On the same day, its central bank, led by technocrat Nicolas Dujovne, raised benchmark interest rates to a stupefying 60%.
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Users can sometimes pass out after inhaling, and the stupefying effects can last for hours, and border on the hallucinatory.
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So let's reflect on the tyranny of convenience, try more often to resist its stupefying power, and see what happens.
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At this point, the idea remains a mind-boggling alternative to the Planet Nine hypothesis, which is itself fairly stupefying.
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Trump, a presidential candidate at the time, used the claim to justify his comments about barring Muslims from entering the US.Read more: Video of Boris Johnson saying Trump showed 'stupefying ignorance' was broadcast onto Big Ben during the president's visitIn response, Johnson, then the London mayor, accused Trump of "quite stupefying ignorance" and deemed him "unfit" to be president.
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Telling them it has to start with N. Let's just take a moment to appreciate the stupefying magnitude of Google's naiveté here.
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" A taste of the tour de force (23 pages in the magazine): "Texas has been growing at a stupefying rate for decades.
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Luckily, for me and for Freddie, the stupefying naïveté of the '19703s provided cover for even the most flagrant acts of effeminacy.
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So stupefying are their exhortations and oaths of fealty, the movie might have been made as much to lull as to agitate.
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Even Mr. Trifonov, who can play most anything written for the piano, seemed tested by the stupefying challenges of his own work.
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To explain how Kalanick commanded such blind devotion, Isaac gestures at the heady post-recession years, which coincided with Uber's stupefying rise.
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And at another news conference with the Finnish president, Trump repeated his stupefying performance, rambling and raving, dodging questions and misdirecting attention.
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A stupefying amount of (digital) ink has been spilled in recent days over just how safe a four-point lead is or isn't.
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The game is overwhelmingly beautiful, and the environments—17th-century abbeys, seaside Italian villas, lush tropical jungles—are rendered in almost stupefying detail.
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Those are pretty stupefying figures when you consider there's almost no proof that going gluten-free will do the average person any favors.
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Humans are capable of stupefying cruelty toward other humans and toward animals—in prisons, in slaughterhouses, in churches, in schools, and in homes.
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Trifonov dispatches all of it with stupefying effortlessness, in the process transforming this ostensibly bravura music into something elegant and rarefied, almost French.
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It's also a city of stupefying inequality, with a widening income gap, and clear lines between those who have and those who don't.
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It's a series of stupefying volleys between an owner and a board, spotlighting one of the most contentious regime changes in corporate history.
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"The brutality and the totally unexpected character of what is happening are stupefying ... This coup de force is very worrying," Bollore told Les Echos.
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This possible hypothesis, not explicitly made in the film, is certainly stupefying, and perhaps even a stretch because of Dolezal's own obfuscation of the truth.
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In a space roughly the size of a hotel room, a couple of dozen young men, mostly Gambian and Senegalese, lie in the stupefying heat.
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His latest stupefying hokum is the contention that the Obama-era Justice Department or F.B.I. infiltrated his campaign with an intent to sabotage it. Really?
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Looking Back The corporate minutes of the Times Printing Company, publishers for many years of The Chattanooga Times, are as stupefying as you might think.
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Within a month, he was on the big club and thus began a run of pitching so stupefying that it transcends the usual caveats of length.
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Unlike some of the more stupefying challenges to come out of 2016 (ahem, 100 layers), this beauty dare is celebrating feelings of liberation, power, and pride.
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As I pondered his remarks, I was reminded of the lengthy history of stupefying male-centric social analyses that Jay-Z's take was in league with.
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Moshfegh's writing is darkly comic, tracing how the heroine uses a stupefying combination of medications to overcome her grief and alienation from the world around her.
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She is as spontaneous and unpredictable as an actual 17-year-old — someone you know, someone you were — which suggests an altogether stupefying level of craft.
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He began his concert on Tuesday at Weill Recital Hall with Jason Eckardt's "Echoes' White Veil," a dizzying, manic 12-minute work of almost stupefying difficulty.
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" Another problem is the stupefying amount of administration that diplomats overseas have to contend with, instead of practicing diplomacy; many have taken to calling it "e-hell.
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As an example of his expanded range, he has made 15 of 30 attempts (50 percent) from beyond 30 feet this season, a stupefying level of accuracy.
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Related: The Stupefying Terror of Quantum Physics Gets an Installation In Moscow, Quantum Physics Meets the Visual Arts Springing to Life with VT Pro Design's Kinetic Wall
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So as Donald Trump's sneering lawlessness and stupefying corruption continue to escalate, it's confounding, at least to me, that Americans aren't taking to the streets en masse.
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The way the diminutive Mavic Pro hovers in the air, glued to a spot in three dimensions as if tethered by invisible guylines is stupefying to a novice.
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Today a stupefying bounty of recordings is available on streaming audio services, floating free of the CDs, LPs and other delivery systems that once brought them to audiences.
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She has written a swift and elegant introduction to Spielberg's life and work, in which admiration for his talents and his stupefying success overcomes most of her resistance.
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The fact that a narrative of feminist determination came from inside Fox News, or people who worked at Fox News, is always sort of utterly stupefying and fascinating.
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At a moment as dystopian and erratic as Dada itself, the performance biennial presents work rife with whimsy and depth to confront complex histories and a stupefying present.
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I can admire the stupefying attention to detail in Red Dead Redemption 2, while recognizing it was built on unfair and exploitative labor practices that require radical industry change.
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Related: The Stupefying Terror of Quantum Physics Gets an Installation Eclectic Online Show Demystifies High Science with Playful Art Witness The Macro Beauty Of Chemical Reactions In Stunning 4K
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Trey Gowdy (R-SC), the chair of the House Oversight Committee, had sharp words on Sunday for Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt and his stupefying pattern of unethical behavior.
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"When Trump says that there are 'no-go' areas in London, he's betraying stupefying ignorance that makes him frankly unfit for the office of the presidency," Johnson said in 2015.
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The statistics of the lost opportunity are stupefying: Intra-African exports were 2202 percent of total exports in 2628, compared with 28500 percent in Europe and 6900 percent in Asia.
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But it raises a simple question: if the stupefying mystery of how The Room could even exist is part of its weird appeal, would a movie explaining that ruin the fun?
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The YouTube personality and self-proclaimed Harry Potter enthusiast gained fame when she appeared at MCM London's ComicCon, stupefying all with a casually fierce dance while dressed up as Hermione Granger.
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The basics are these: Zoo began as a stupefying adaptation of a James Patterson novel that focused more on corporate conspiracies than its rebelling animals, the obvious stars of the story.
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They swept the Padres at Shea in two weekend doubleheaders and began a run in which they would win 213 of their last 49 games of the season, sometimes in stupefying fashion.
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WORST PLAY OF THE YEAR We could probably pick one per week, but the topper (bottomer?) has to be the Colts' fake punt against New England — the most stupefying play of the season.
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Related: Meet the Artist Animating the Kaleidoscopic Beauty of Quantum Physics You Don't Need to Be a Rocket Scientist to Enjoy These Quantum Physics Visualizations The Stupefying Terror of Quantum Physics Gets an Installation
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It was more like a crime, compounded by the stupefying incompetence of those who embarked upon a patently illegal preventive war out of a sense of panic induced by the events of 9/11.
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Check. (See the infamous cabinet meeting in which members came not to brief Trump but to praise him.) Has a stupefying incapacity for empathy, is interpersonally exploitative, suffers excessively from envy and envies excessively?
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There are even quintuple doubles, a stupefying exploit — 25 points, 18 rebounds, 11 assists, 10 steals and 10 blocks — performed by the women's star Tamika Catchings when she was in high school in 1997.
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It certainly proves that the Chinese film industry can hold its own at the multiplex: It is just as awash in murky computer imagery, stupefying exposition and manipulative sentimentality as the average Hollywood tentpole.
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Afterward, we walked through the empty Zoroastrian museum, turning the fans on and off in each room as we went, as I tried to absorb the stupefying amount of information crammed onto the wall placards.
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One of its most disappointing essays is about aliens in science fiction, which manages, against stupefying odds, to contain just one interesting insight: that authors tend to be more concerned with physics than with biology.
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Every indication says the 2019 Oscars will be a no-frills affair that will settle into a stupefying rhythm earlier than usual: "We were hired to deliver a shortened show," Gigliotti told The New York Times.
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But let's be real: Nothing in the current crop of television, comedy or drama or reality show, can compete effectively with the stupefying, non-fiction epic now on display nearly 24 hours a day in Washington.
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Artists and magicians have a few things in common—they put on shows, they rarely reveal their secrets, and they both can engage in stupefying transfigurations, taking one thing and turning it into something completely different.
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The letters, which Stibbe addressed to her sister, managed to crackle and fizz while also advancing a plot of sorts, which is stupefying when you learn that she wasn't writing with any eye toward public consumption.
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" With Bela Bartok's "The Miraculous Mandarin" as mood music, a white cloud engulfs soldiers as a narrator intones, "And on this desert this cloud was unleashed so men could measure the dimensions of its stupefying power.
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We've named and described a million species of insects, a stupefying array of thrips and firebrats and antlions and caddis flies and froghoppers and other enormous families of bugs that most of us can't even name.
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"It is stupefying in a way, because we are all so familiar with the catalog," said Elmar Juchem, managing editor of the critical edition of Weill's scores, who found the three-page manuscript for the song.
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Six hikers in Arizona died in a single weekend last month, and Phoenix firefighters have rescued 141 people from the city's mountains and trails so far this year, many of them overcome by the summer's stupefying heat.
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Hearing the intense young Gould at work during these arduous recording sessions, playing through a variation at a breakneck tempo with prickly sound, then playing it again, and again, and again, is not just exhausting; it's stupefying.
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To avoid it, you learn how to strategically block and hide people, how to stymie the stupefying, ever-changing algorithm by marking certain pages "See First," how to erase your entire profile and navigate directly to your groups.
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Relations with Mr. Trump took a blow in December when Boris Johnson, now the foreign secretary, accused the candidate of being "out of his mind" and of "a quite stupefying ignorance" that made him unfit for the presidency.
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Among the inaugural offerings at the larger, nimbler, hardly perfect, much improved Museum of Modern Art, the most important is "Sur Moderno": a stupefying showcase of more than 200 midcentury abstract works from Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina and Uruguay.
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Mr. de Blasio said on Thursday that he planned to build a new streetcar line along the waterfront from Brooklyn to Queens, a stretch of real estate that now commands stupefying prices but offers almost no public transit options.
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Former U.S. Attorney Joseph diGenova, laid out a strong case that Comey contributed to the disgraceful politicization of the FBI — which, in part, led to his dismissal — via stupefying decisions in the Clinton emails and Trump-Russia collusion cases.
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A frigid shower after the sweat of the sauna will never induce the dazzling, purifying tingle of a full icy dunk: a stupefying feeling that your entire body is mentholated, a trick that keeps you warm through wintry days.
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But the young couple, played with stupefying blankness by Matilda Lutz and Alex Roe, are so devoid of personality and charisma that I hardly cared whether they lived or died — in other words, there is no psychology to connect with.
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This is a general problem with Fritzsche's approach as applied to the East: Death came quickly, and in stupefying numbers, and to people who did not speak the Western languages in which the history of the war is largely written.
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For example, when Mr. Trump was pursuing the Republican nomination, Boris Johnson, then the mayor of London, accused Mr. Trump of being "out of his mind" and of possessing "a quite stupefying ignorance" that made him unfit for the presidency.
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In 1683, the leading painter of colonial Mexico painted a stupefying altarpiece for the cathedral of Puebla: a 26-foot showstopper that merged a radiant vision of Jesus' transfiguration into light with a grimmer narrative of Israelites attacked by snakes.
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His relations with Donald J. Trump took a blow in December 2015, when he accused Mr. Trump, then a presidential candidate, of being "out of his mind" and of "a quite stupefying ignorance" that made him unfit for the presidency.
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All sorts of drugs, actually, and in stupefying quantities, as Mr. Ohler documents in "Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany," a best seller in Germany and Britain that will be published in the United States by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in April.
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True, there was a male-only penthouse club at Disney's Burbank studios that featured, along with a stupefying mural of naked and half-naked women, a restaurant, a barbershop, a bar, a gym, and a section where men could sunbathe in the nude.
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The stupefying foolishness of the plan is evident in three main points from Monday's s outline offered in op-eds by Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer and three Democratic House members in which they purport to give the broad strokes of the party's economic strategy.
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And of course who can forget his stupefying decision to pardon Oscar Lopez Rivera, who in the 1970's led a Chicago-based domestic terror cell of the Armed Forces of National Liberation (FALN) that claimed responsibility for 85033 bombings between 1974 and 1983.
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Rajneesh mesmerized his followers with a stupefying amalgam of Eastern mystical mumbo jumbo (Rajneesh, like Charles Manson, talked frequently about the need to "lose" or "give up" the ego) and the language and techniques of the then-prevalent humanistic psychology and human potential movements.
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But in a stupefying decision, last week he sent invitations out to the Democratic hopeful Hillary Clinton and Mr. Trump to come to Mexico, and then conceded, reportedly under pressure from the Trump team, to meet its candidate first, on the fateful Aug. 31.
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She has regaled her daughters with stupefying stories of yore, how in her first year of organized competition, seventh grade, ancient rules were still in effect — three defensive players on one side the floor, three offensive on the other, never to cross into forbidden territory.
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As demand outweighs supply, the value of land and the homes sitting atop it — whether they're intact or otherwise deteriorating — rises, which Coldwell Banker listing agent Jeremy Rushton told Business Insider is what's so stupefying about seeing a property in disrepair with such a high price tag.
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Adapting (very liberally) the Russian dramatist Nikolai Erdman's Stalin-era play of the same name from 1928, Suhayla El-Bushra has sought to make something trenchantly contemporary out of an archival curio; the result is a stupefying mishmash that saw not a few patrons leave at intermission.
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Or, if international affairs aren't your thing, look around at our own country where life expectancy is actually declining, we're rapidly heading towards a recession, domestic terrorism is on the rise and pretty much everyone is addicted to some stupefying thing from drugs to porn to Twitter.
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What you're seeing through the door is the top half of a stupefying 28-foot-tall altarpiece by Cristóbal de Villalpando, the most important painter of 17th-century Mexico — or New Spain, as the viceroyalty was called when it stretched from Central America to Florida and Louisiana.
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The figures are stupefying: forty thousand people detained and huge numbers of others forced from their jobs, including twenty-one thousand police officers, three thousand judges and prosecutors, twenty-one thousand public-school workers, fifteen hundred university deans, and fifteen hundred employees of the Ministry of Finance.
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While the immediate stupefying effects of Musk's worst tweets are now obvious, over time they serve to illuminate an important, larger truth: The captains of industry we venerate for their perceived brilliance are often huge dumbasses when it comes to anything other than accumulating a lot of money and turning it into more.
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"When I was writing the novel I thought of it as a super-natural detective story, and to this day I cannot recall having a conscious intention to terrifying anybody, which you may take, I suppose, as an admission of failure on an almost stupefying scale," Blatty told The Huffington Post in 2011.
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Yet Washington's own memoir reveals the stupefying degree of force that his father employed with the family to assert his authority: In addition to the outright battery of his wife, Johanna, and their children — and despite his practical employment of physics in his career — John Roebling denied the validity of doctors and medical science in favor of water cures.
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The year I became a junior counselor was also the year I got my license; being allowed to drive the eight miles from our house to camp for the first time — incandescent sun lighting up the back roads I swore I'd stick to, the Cranberries playing far too loudly — was an experience so heady as to border on stupefying.
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" Women's groups have worked to influence the soccer association by targeting its corporate sponsors over the last few days: An open letter to the chief executives of those companies asked them to drop their backing for the Belgian team because of the lyrics, which were said to "express hate, abuse and violence toward women to a degree that is frankly stupefying.
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Boris Johnson, the Foreign Secretary who charged Trump with "quite stupefying ignorance," has exchanged pre-election scorn for post-election flattery, while Trump, lauding the "special relationship" between the two countries, has brought great relief to an anxious British cabinet by promising to make a "very big, very powerful" (and very quick) trade deal with the UK. Europe has no single face to show America.
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