Sentence examples for a breathtaking sequence from inspiring English sources

"Alexander, you have in mind a man's death," Ismael says, and Alexander's wish is immediately made manifest in a breathtaking sequence that is forever branded upon my brain.

Reputedly the most expensive animated feature ever made, Disney's showcase of computer animation technology begins with a breathtaking sequence, a visual and sonic extravaganza that the rest of the movie never quite lives up to.

From an initial close-up of ridged, rippling hide -- evocative of a breathing, flexing piece of exquisitely textured high-end luggage -- "Dinosaur" begins, in time- and market-tested Disney fashion, with a breathtaking sequence, a visual and sonic extravaganza that the rest of the movie never quite lives up to.

A breathtaking sequence of images works its way through the book's final pages: cattle cars become an express train to heaven; embers from crematoriums are transubstantiated on the tongue of a dying woman into the body of Christ; a field of carrion, "thick with flies," blooms into an ocean of irises.

Suzanne (Studiocanal, 12), Frenchwoman Katell Quillévéré's superior follow-up to her already formidable debut, Love Like Poison, is a daring, wrenching character study of a feckless, working-class woman (brilliantly played by Sara Forestier) that covers 25 years via a breathtaking sequence of chronological leaps.

Dubost and Carette play a deliciously sly and comic cat-and-mouse game with the absurdly rigid Modot, especially during the after-dinner entertainment, a breathtaking sequence described by the critic Richard Roud as something from "a Marx brothers film scripted by a Feydeau who suddenly acquired a tragic sense".

In one breathtaking sequence a family reunion in the Northern California countryside transports us from the gloom of film noir into the bleached sunshine of Italian neo-realism.

In one breathtaking sequence, Wall-E uses a fire extinguisher for locomotion so he can dance with Eve in space, but the rest was a lot of hectic milling and chasing — Pixar's default mode.

After a breathtaking opening sequence of pearl divers in the watery depths, the curtain rises on a bleak coastal village, where a weather-beaten billboard — advertising jewelry with the tagline "Inspiration from the Deep" — looms over tin-and-cardboard huts.

In terms of security, the PC's designis a breathtaking kludge a sequence of defensive maneuvers and patches that play a futile catch-up game with malicious software.

In one breathtaking sequence, the barge glides through an underground canal and the pattern made by the repeated flashes of light breaking through the roof is mesmerisingly beautiful.