Sentence examples for breathtaking fall from inspiring English sources

Regardless of the details of Chevalier's accusations, Browne's is a breathtaking fall from grace.

"Nortel must be put on a sound financial footing once and for all," explained Mike Zafirovsky, its chief executive.It marks the end of a breathtaking fall.

These losses transformed local housing declines into a global crisis and, along with the breathtaking fall in stock prices, have remained the primary engines of disaster.

That would be a breathtaking fall for a squad that less than three years ago was ranked fourth in the world by FIFA, the sport's worldwide governing body, and that advanced to the second round in the 1998 World Cup.

The story had all the hallmarks of a tale of urban drama: a historic high-rise; a breathtaking fall; an injured child curled up in a bed of soot that had cushioned her fall; and hardened rescuers who can still be shocked by the resilience of life.

The White Knight (Larry DiStasi) is a comic bicyclist and unicyclist; the Red Queen (Tony Hernandez) is an expert stilt walker; Humpty Dumpty (Doug Hara) takes a breathtaking fall; and Anthony Fleming III (with Mr. Hara and Mr. Hernandez) is one third of the acrobatic team that is the Caterpillar.

"The Parade of the Wooden Soldiers," a favorite since 1933, is back with its crisp costumes, brilliantly precise marching and breathtaking domino fall.

TEHRAN — Iran's president admitted Tuesday that the American-led economic sanctions on the country were partly to blame for a breathtaking 40 percent fall in value of the Iranian currency, the rial, over the past week.

Sizing up the current presidential campaign, he wrote: "I take fiendish delight in watching my overcaffeinated colleagues proclaim the startling, astonishing, breathtaking rise and fall of... whoever it is this week.

But perhaps the most spectacular drives in the Mid-Atlantic — exquisite year-round and downright breathtaking in the fall — are Virginia's 105-mile Skyline Drive in Shenandoah National Park and the Blue Ridge Parkway, which begins just to its south.

Emmerich drove on through the woods emblazoned in a breathtaking easel of fall rainbow colors.