Pickens, you may recall, was among the more swashbuckling figures of the 1980's: one of the first of the "corporate raiders" who bestrode the business landscape, he initiated a series of breathtaking takeover attempts aimed at companies many times the size of his own.
Arkansas is just the latest state to hurl breathtaking restrictions at abortion services, attempting to ban them after 12 weeks, and to ban funding for Planned Parenthood.
Sutcliffe's penalty levelled the game but he then put a drop-goal attempt wide in a breathtaking finish, while Rob Burrow slipped on the turf as he missed a chance to score in the final minute.
At the same time that Koolhaas was fulminating against the "vulgar desire to impose flashy new form" on cities like St . Petersburg he was attempting to erect the most breathtaking building of his career — in Beijing.
The film's plot, about a repressive society divided into exploited workers, indolent rulers, and emotionless robots, may have owed something to H.G. Wells, but the breathtaking visual scheme was like nothing ever attempted on screen.
The list of unrealized goals from Mr. Obama and Mr. Boehner's last attempt at a grand bargain two weeks ago are breathtaking in their number, particularly when compared with the probable outcome of these final Congressional negotiations.
(I'm not quite sure what the word for that is. Sangfroid? Chutzpah? Breathtaking bad manners?) Then there were the Heath Robinson attempts to plug the hole.
He even attempted a double yellow when on 96 and a breathtaking 100 secured a very welcome victory for both his fans and himself.
Hillary Clinton's first attempt to win her party's presidential nomination was accompanied by a campaign of breathtaking nastiness.
Taken together, the rationale for initiating clinical trials on DNaseI for PQ-induced lung injury is sound, and such attempts to tame the "Trojan Horse" in other forms of lung injury and pulmonary fibrosis will be breathtaking.
