Exalted we are indeed, risen to be the mind of the biosphere without a doubt, our spirits capable of awe and ever more breathtaking leaps of imagination.
These include the magnificent Rockettes, more versatile and saucy than ever; the breathtaking precision and suspense of "The Parade of the Wooden Soldiers"; and, of course, Santa Claus, individually (the hearty Charles Edward Hall) and in vast numbers in the "Here Comes Santa Claus" routine that fills the huge stage with hordes of hoofing Kriss Kringles.
The final scene, arguably the most beautiful thing Britten ever wrote, was breathtaking, as it always should be.
Twenty years on, Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction has been rereleased in cinemas, and it looks as mesmeric and mad as ever: callous, insolent, breathtaking.
Or was he fatally mauled by a hippopotamus while out hunting? Everything about Tutankhamun seems fabulous, but unlike Arthur or Agamemnon, the boy king is still with us: we can interrogate him, and have done ever since that breathtaking moment of discovery in 1922 in the Valley of the Kings.
Gene editing tools have been around for years, but the recent development of the CRISPR-Cas9 (and lesser known cpf1) tool allows scientists to edit the genomes of all species with far greater precision, speed, flexibility and affordability than ever before — a breathtaking advance with enormous potential for good.
Outstanding views, ever-changing and breathtaking, are a real feature of this walk between Dittisham and Dartmouth.
And $3,000 a month — an amount that was inching ever higher — seemed a breathtaking sum.
"I think that it's a major shift, because the diversity is now more breathtaking than ever," said Richard Schrader, Mr. Green's campaign manager.
The remarkable run-up in stock prices over much of the last decade has been tempered or even reversed by some measures over the last six months, though it remains almost as breathtaking as ever by others.
In the location shoots in Morocco and Nevada the work of the colourists is as liberal and breathtaking as ever, and the show's trademark abuse of aspect ratios is still powerful enough to leave you light-headed.
