Word: breathless
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Nothing was more symbolic of the Taliban's fall than the appearance of a forbidden kite in the skies over Kabul. Breathless news accounts heralded it as a harbinger of Afghanistan's rebirth; the killjoy Talibs were gone and music, which they had also banned, played at their wake. But in Khaled Hosseini's debut novel, The Kite Runner, this symbol of liberation serves only to remind Afghan refugee Amir of a past he has desperately tried to escape. Exiled to San Francisco, Amir revisits that past in a series of flashbacks set amidst Afghanistan's war-wracked history. What...
...Bangkok Airways, organizers of the inaugural Koh Samui Carnival, flooded newsdesks this summer with breathless prose and photos of brown bodies draped in fruit and feathers. Koh Samui was billed as the "Rio de Janeiro of the East." The press release added: "To say that there has never been anything quite like it in Asia is an understatement...
This road, I've been told, leads to paradise. Everyone says my journey to the pristine village of Yubeng in the northwest corner of China's Yunnan province will take my breath away. I'm breathless alright. But for all the wrong reasons. My minivan is careening along a tiny ledge of compressed rubble, gouged out of a steeply pitched ravine, a few hundred meters above a tributary of the Mekong. I'm convinced I'm seconds away from becoming part of one of the small avalanches the van is leaving in its wake...
Quickly, though, she says she realized that the dinner was to celebrate winning the Pulitzer and was “stupefied and breathless for the next twenty seconds...
...Administration officials worked hard Friday to tamp down expectations of a speedy victory, saying those has been generated by breathless TV coverage - but public expectation of a quick-and-easy war may have been equally shaped by months of glowing public predictions from by the war's most enthusiastic advocates in Washington; folks who confidently predicted that Saddam's regime would crumble under the weight of its own tyranny...