Word: breathless
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...want to turn for a minute to the style of the movie, the sheer rush of it. It moves like a bullet train. That style makes us breathless and heedless, so that the full implications of the movie, its full embrace of moral ambiguity, occur later when you're thinking it over...
...over a still lake, and Air’s dreamy trance hits a fever pitch. While “Pocket Symphony” is by no means “Talkie Walkie,” you’ll still find yourself eager to explore Air’s breathless cosmos. —Reviewer Andrew F. Nunnelly can be reached at nunnelly@fas.harvard.edu...
...Nguyen said, shaking his head. “Unbelievable.”What Nguyen could not believe, the crowd could still not grasp. Just one point earlier, down a match point, 10-9, Nguyen had persevered carefully through a forty-shot rally that had the crowd breathless and soundless.“It was that way the entire match—either someone was being broken or breaking right back,” Nguyen said. “We were pretty much used to it by then, desensitized to all the momentum shifts.”For Nguyen...
...language or thought police, the nigger-nazis are humorless snobs who dream of a world without toilets. They are also caught in the ancient and reductionist view that the black community is little more than a motley crew of victims. Whenever someone uses nigger, they break out into breathless stories of lynchings, lunch counters and police dogs. They then assert that we nigger-users are doing little more than confirming and perpetuating our own ignorance and participating in a racist conspiracy...
Rachel's first breathless call was to her grandparents. "Guess what, I have my own cell phone," exclaimed the cutting-edge fourth-grader through her shiny, tricked-out handset. The perplexed, interstate scowls at other end of the line were easy to envision. "Why do you need that?" retorted her disapproving elders virtually in unison. My nine-year-old didn't have an immediate answer, but instinctively and ineffably, she knew she had arrived...