mind-boggling

Infinitive complement

• think: However when we consider what Scripture has to say about this important event it is mind-boggling to think how it has been overlooked.
• imagine: I also found it mind-boggling to imagine just a few word, uttered and then long forgotten, could have been such help.

Modifies a noun

• array: Women's shoes come in a mind-boggling array of styles that have gone through innumerable makeovers throughout the years.
• charge: Have been possible our business needs mind-boggling charges of it does take.
• range: Children will soon be busily composing their Christmas essentials with the mind-boggling range of wizarding merchandise littering their wish lists.
• number: Like MySpace, Bebo's mind-boggling visitor numbers point to a price tag of hundreds of millions, probably billions.
• complexity: The reasons for such mind-boggling complexity need not be rehearsed here.
• fact: A combination of high quality photography, inspiring copy and mind-boggling facts and figures will engage every reader.

Modifying Another Word

• truly: The huge range of animals at the zoo is truly mind-boggling!
• absolutely: The different departments, the whole bureaucracy, it was absolutely mind-boggling.
• so: The bewildering choice of prospective partners is so mind-boggling that too often they never make a choice at all.
• quite: Jeffrey Smith's exposé is thorough and the cynicism and lies he lays bare are quite mind-boggling.
• somewhat: The ramifications of the letter are somewhat mind-boggling -- as was the article in EGG No.7 to which it refers.
• too: In an irony almost too mind-boggling to enjoy, is it possible that the Guardian just helped George Bush get re-elected?

Used with adjective complement

• seem: Initially the task seemed mind-boggling, how to sensibly integrate such a wealth of disparate material.
• watch: Choose sitting on that chair, watching mind-boggling, bone-crunching fights, stuffing ****ing humble pie into your opponents mouth.