Word: gaspeing
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...Gasp as we may at the childish recklessness of the girl, Miss Hartley never allows us to lose sympathy with her, Willful, selfish, materialistic, yet essentially honest and good at heart. Anne is a constant delight one of those airy creatures that make us rejoice in the eternal unreasonableness of the other...
...revive the old bombastic melodrama, where, instead of seeing the hero jump onto his trusty horse and dash madly up and down mountain sides in pursuit of the villain, we should have the heroine gazing out a painted window from which she would turn now and then to gasp to us, "There he goes, there he goes, My God, My God, over a ditch, he's getting nearer, he's getting nearer ... ah.. my brave boy, he's got him, thank...
Shades of Emerson and Longfellow! Will the Juggernaut of modern progress have no mercy? Is Cantabrigian conservatism to die without a gasp? Consider the awful consequences of such a vulgar union...
...that they may go to the Hackett prepared to see not only one of the most wonderful portrayals that Mrs. Fiske has ever given but they will witness a production which is not alone extraordinary but unique. There will be moments in the first act when they will gasp at the cold-blooded, sheer brutality of the dialogues and situations; there will be times when their interest will sag, owing to the young author's too great love of mere characteristic detail; then again, they will be thrilled by the strength of many of the scenes, for with...
...Brawley, is vast in its way, but gets its being from a figure obviously more suited to Swinburne--one of mingled sea and wind. "Sea-Poems," by J. H. Wheelock, are scarcely more successful, owing to the writer's tendency to be, fussy with his imagery, and to gasp whenever the mood requires powerful inarticulacy. "Nineveh," by J. S. Miller, Jr., has an ingenious conceit, well worked...