Sentence examples for breathtaking act from inspiring English sources

This was a breathtaking act of self-absolution and deception.

It was a breathtaking act of defiance, and it fit the mood of the city at the time.

Indeed, at the heart of Murray and Ellison's joint enterprise was perhaps the most breathtaking act of cultural chutzpah since Columbus claimed it all for Isabella.

And if Democrats don't get their act together and push the almost-completed reform across the goal line, this breathtaking act of staggering hypocrisy will succeed.

In one breathtaking act of betrayal, she ruins Lucinda's chances with Maurice (though Hay leaves it wonderfully unclear whether Lucinda could ever have won the fickle student's heart).

"Not only is it a breathtaking act of rudeness in itself," he writes, "but it conveys a none-too-subtle and mercenary message: Hurry up and order another bottle".

To achieve this, I turned to the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History, which houses the world's largest repository of videotaped Holocaust survivor testimonies many of which, perhaps surprisingly, are filled with breathtaking acts of selflessness and generosity.

His breathtaking live act did much to seal his reputation.

The performance was about Manet's Olympia, played by Carolee Schneemann, who was first hidden, then uncovered in a breathtaking juggling act with plywood boards by Morris.

It's a breathtaking juggling act".

The screenplay by Eric Roth has the complexity of modern fiction...The performance is a breathtaking balancing act between comedy and sadness, in a story rich in big laughs and quiet truths...What a magical movie".