As investigators have deciphered its staggering complexity, they have come to consider the varied spectrum of parasites and pathogens that the immune system evolved to attack.

Empathy is a process of staggering complexity, involving interactions of genetic endowment, memories of experience, reasoning abilities and visual, tactile and auditory perceptions.

Econometricians searched for empirical regularities, eventually producing Keynesian models of quite staggering complexity.

He recalls the staggering complexities of the work with frank frustration.

O'Hara called the home Mr. Rivers set up a "bohemian household" of "staggering complexity."

"Just the staggering complexity of human consciousness," said Orphu.

"On the one hand, it is a document of staggering complexity," he said.

Faced with the staggering complexity of Soviet realities, he demonstrated flexibility and an appreciation for nuance.

Because of the staggering complexity of this section, it is often the one most extensively studied by scholars of the novel.

It is a place of staggering complexity, natural beauty and intense sensuality - all of which Mr. Richburg seems too busy with his jeremiad to notice.