What is "breathtaking"

Usage examples of "breathtaking".

He wanted to show her the house he was building on Anguilla, toohis first house, one that was being built amid a grove of palm trees on a gorgeous stretch of pristine beach with a breathtaking view of the water.

Although she enjoyed the scenery to the south, that breathtaking panorama in which forest segued to desert canyon land and the horizon was so far away that you could see the curve of the earth, in truth she preferred the view to the north, and it was when she was walking up the bill, facing the heavily wooded plateau directly behind Bonita Vista, that she felt most at home, that she felt a part of this place.

Forget that he was breathtaking in his official iridescent uniform, that the lights reflecting off his hair highlighted rich caroba and sunshine hues.

This woman had been a veritable Chaucerian figure, taking on and discarding husbands with breathtaking rapidity, always trading up, until she was able to write the will that made Lois heir to three million.

After all the nonsense that was reported about the Elian Gonzalez case, the truth is breathtaking.

Then, as he and Arlen thundered downhill at breathtaking speed, the two Firbolgs before them stopped, and each grabbed a rock the size of a large melon.

In that moment of looking up to see the face of a friend, as if for the first time, or that moment of standing motionless at a breathtaking sunset or holding a sleeping infant, we fleetingly glimpse something of the full-statured stillness that eternally pervades the fleetingness of all things.

British writer Melanie Phillips, no conservative, sees in such casual assertions a breathtaking illiberalism and inversion of traditional values.

Remind your duke -- he already knows this -- that I, too, have resources that are breathtaking, resources that he cannot even imagine.

The trail maintainers in Maine have a certain hale devotion to seeking out the rockiest climbs and most forbidding slopes, and of these Maine has a breathtaking plenitude.

This is a stupid film, filled with breathtaking adolescent electronic and computer technique, all in service of a story created by semiliterate children at recess time, children who cannot sit still long enough in class to learn anything.

All told, being with him was the most exciting thing that had ever happened to her The mountain they hiked was lushly green, with clear streams, sweet bird songs and breathtaking vistas making it a heady climb from the trailhead on up.

As they drew steadily nearer, these uneven outlines resolved themselves into a breathtaking vista of amethystine spires, weblike walkways, lofty buttresses, and soaring crenellated structures that sparkled like crystal in glorious lavender sunshine.

New York Times bestselling author Samantha James weaves unforgettable tales of romance and enchantment-following bold and reckless hearts to the breathtaking places where the truest love must ultimately lead.

Deathstalker and his friend Kit Summerlsle, called by some Kid Death, raced their modified flyers in and out of the trees, sweeping this way and that at breathtaking speed, and whooping wildly as they went.