Sentence examples for rather breathtaking from inspiring English sources

Alan Davey, chief executive of Arts Council England, one of the many partners involved in the project, called it "ambitious and rather breathtaking".

So in spite of his rather breathtaking grab for another term, there will be no opprobrium forthcoming from the editorial pages of the city's newspapers.

Blaser says these tend to occur only late in life, and he makes the rather breathtaking suggestion that this microbe's evolutionary role might be to help shuffle us off life's stage once our childbearing years have passed.

So, the subtext of I Love LA, which was proudly sanctioned by the mayor of Los Angeles and the Olympics people is, essentially, "We're unremarkable, but fuck you!" This is irony on a grand and rather breathtaking scale.

But visiting the game in virtual reality, actually standing among the craggy chasms, being able to look up at the looming mountains, seeing them extend into the sky far above you... this is a new, rather breathtaking experience.

http://t.co/iKZHxxPG #Current2012 — Current TV (@current) 7 Nov 12 CNN estimates are updated in real time on a rather breathtaking graphic template: The Empire State.. http://t.co/wnIUzf1J — david carr (@carr2n) 7 Nov 12 — DAVID CARR Like a lot of people in New Jersey, I've been out of luck on power and heat.

Siri: "Without your space helmet, [your name], you're going to find this rather… breathtaking".

Any worries that this occasion was too big for a debutant had been swept away by an innings more notable for its composure and pragmatism rather than breathtaking strokeplay.

And yet to others it was clinical rather than breathtaking, a maths puzzle solved rather than the rapturous work of art that was Maxi Rodriguez's volley (seven passes in the build-up) for the same team in the same tournament.

It is an engineering science whose frontiers are pushed ahead by people building new tools rendered in silicon and programming code rather than the breathtaking epiphanies and grand unifying theories of mathematics or physics.

Photographs in the international editions of Bazaar and Vogue had so emphasized Ms. Renn's natural curves, and in some cases exaggerated them with lighting and digital manipulation, that he imagined her to be much larger, with the personality of a vixen, rather than the breathtaking but normal young woman who had come to tell him her story.