Word: breathlessly
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...made his first recording under his own name and witnessed, to his horror, a breathless publicity campaign that sounded as if the Abominable Snowman had been caged by Blue Note Records...
...Russia, it is sometimes hard to tell who is married to whom. Despite their names, OLEG PROTOPOPOV and LUDMILLA BELOUSOVA are man and wife-and the best pairs figure skaters in the world. To the accompaniment of Rachmaninoff, they performed a breathless routine of intricate acrobatics, skated off with the gold medal...
...most treacherous roles, she sang La Traviata's Violetta only three weeks after Joan Sutherland's Met debut in the same role. With La Stupenda's triumph still fresh in mind, the critics expected only a nice try from La Costa. But after a faint and breathless first act, she became the very spirit of Verdi's epic courtesan. "It seemed the obstacles were all against me," she said, "but now I am really thrilled to death...
Butcher's Son. Author Terrell tells the story of America's first tycoon in breathless prose that only hints at the character of the man but that traces his serpentine financial dealings in encyclopedic detail. Born the son of a butcher in the German village of Walldorf,* Astor took passage for America in 1783, when he was barely 19. Less than six months later, while he was serving as a baker's delivery boy, he bought his first fur pelt on the New York waterfront in exchange for some sugar buns. Aided by a loan from...
...sorts of things have been added: fantasy, turgid humor, breathless monologues. "It's happening, Moss, all of it . . . It's all true!" Hamilton whispers to himself. But the muse that spurred Moss Hart to fame has clearly strayed. If this were an out-of-town tryout, the closing notice would have gone up in Boston. As they say on the Main Stem, Act One needs work...