Sentence examples for only a breath from inspiring English sources
It would be unbearably obvious that death is inscribed in everything that constitutes life, that any moment of your existence may be only a breath away from being the last.
As a stereotype, this is only a breath away from wannabe pundit Niall Ferguson's bizarre claim last week that John Maynard Keynes didn't care about the future because he was gay, childless and too busy glitterspraying his platform boots.
As written, her character — seven months pregnant, polite to a fault, smart yet slow — is only a breath away from caricature, yet McDormand unearths a surprising decency there, and in the process she pretty well rescues the film.
For instance, regulators allowed the News Corporation, headed by Rupert Murdoch, to buy The New York Post in 1993, despite its ownership of New York's Channel 5, because the newspaper, owned by the developer Peter Kalikow, was only a breath away from death.
What softens "Cinderella Man" is the unstoppable decency of the director, who offers no hint of sexual threat or racial distrust, and only a breath of political unrest; what hardens it is the glower of Russell Crowe, who instinctively grasps the irony of trying to sell a fairy tale on the back of legalized violence — of men in a desperate age, who all but murdered for a living.
She reminds the world that beauty and art can be so many different things, which makes her not only a breath of fresh air, but truly unforgettable.
He not only is a breath of fresh air but also makes me laugh out loud.
Only a few breaths of one of the gases released by nitrates can cause a diffuse chemical pneumonia.
Mr. Powell registered a blood-alcohol level of 0.07 percent, just below the legal limit of 0.08, but he had blown only a half-breath, not enough to provide an accurate reading, law enforcement officials said.
The body temperature is close to 0° C (32° F); the respiration is only a few breaths per minute; and the heartbeat is so slow and gradual as to be barely perceptible.
Law enforcement officials said Mr. Powell registered a blood alcohol level of 0.07percentt, just below the legal limit of 0.08, but had blown only a half-breath, not enough to provide an accurate reading.
