What is "heart-stoppingly"

Usage examples of "heart-stoppingly".

But then he smiled, one of his beauti­ful, heart-stoppingly perfect crooked smiles, as if he'd just found gold at the end of a rainbow.

And he could also remember the heart-stoppingly exquisite sensation when he'd driven himself deeply inside her.

Steely gray and heart-stoppingly intense, the force of his gaze was nearly palpable.

He was heart-stoppingly, impossibly beau­tiful, his eyes an incredible shade of molten hot blue.

Somehow they both managed to get naked amidst a tangle of arms and legs, her skin heart-stoppingly smooth against his.

But her feelings for this particular man were heart-stoppingly intense.

But then he smiled, one of his beautiful, heart-stoppingly perfect crooked smiles, as if he'd just found gold at the end of a rainbow.

Like any terrestrial world seen from space, it was heart-stoppingly beautiful.

Her shape was an almost perfect hourglass topped by a heart-stoppingly beautiful face.

Her face was freshly scrubbed and she looked heart-stoppingly beautiful.

And a face to match, somehow sweet and funny and heart-stoppingly handsome all at once.

Inferno was heart-stoppingly lovely, a blue-white gem gleaming in the void.

I didn't see how the driver could see or hear to drive, especially as traffic was unbelievably thick and heart-stoppingly fast and frantic and he kept cutting in and out of lanes and up and down in levels as if he were trying utmostly to beat Death to a hospital.