It's always a bit breathtaking when Ms. Malcolm writes this way about journalism.
The numbers are a bit breathtaking: In a little more than four months, the Dow Jones industrial average has leapt more than 2,500 points — nearly 39percentto— to close above 9,000 for the first time since January.
Before that, rocks in the area were already tilted and deformed when the North American continental plate collided into Africa about 250 million years ago, leaving layers at radically altered angles -- glimpses into deep time that are a bit breathtaking to the casual walker.
The commentators could, of course, still offer a bit of intermittent hyperbole: "A breathtaking exercise of judicial power," is how the ABC correspondent Terry Moran characterized the court's potential decision, but such come-ons did not seem wholly out of line.
Even after attending several G.O.P. conventions since 1998, I find it breathtaking, and a bit unnerving, to watch the party of Ryan, Todd Akin, and Grover Norquist present itself as a moderate force devoted to the causes of deficit reduction, middle-class prosperity, and equal opportunity for all Americans, regardless, of sex, race, or creed.
Although Hamid's authorial voice can lean in thematically at times declarations such as "When we migrate, we murder from our lives those we leave behind" and "We are all migrants through time" will feel either breathtaking or a bit on the nose, depending on your taste— Exit West is an impressive work as well as a miraculously, refreshingly hopeful one.
The other was breathtaking in its logic but a bit startling.
Once atop Tower Hill, we hiked over to an adjacent wooded dune, and then followed the trail for a bit until it led to an opening that provided a breathtaking view of the dune valley below.
There is a breathtaking clarity to her writing which always leaves me a bit stunned.
You can see him simmering quietly -- nothing indicating his rage except, perhaps, a slight downward turn at the corners of his mouth and a bit of extra restlessness in his darting eyes -- and then, with breathtaking suddenness, he takes action.
But Grindavik has a bit of everything: skiing, surfing and, most importantly, a geothermal spa with breathtaking views.
