The news seemed breathtaking.
But California is the biggest state to experience the shift, and for longtime residents, the changes seem breathtaking.
The transformation of the neighborhood must have seemed breathtaking to New Yorkers of that era -- an emblem of the astounding changes that had overtaken the city itself.
The cynicism can seem breathtaking but weirdly heartening, a sign that we haven't been pummeled, politically and emotionally, into taking a uniform view of that terrible moment and its meaning.
In his place, Kerouac created a cast of characters that were at once louche and naïve, schooled in a boxcar romanticism that looks almost quaint now but that, in 1957, when "On the Road" was published, seemed breathtaking.
That it now looks not only possible but perhaps likely that the Supreme Court will strike down the health care law as unconstitutional, probably in its entirety, is a tribute to some skilled and passionate advocacy and the persuasive power of conservative media — and what seems a breathtaking departure from decades of Supreme Court jurisprudence.
It may strike you that none of these ideas seem particularly breathtaking.
And $3,000 a month — an amount that was inching ever higher — seemed a breathtaking sum.
Likewise Harold Wilson's "surprise" defeat, in defiance of the opinion polls of 1970, seemed less breathtaking to anyone who had monitored his administration's unremittingly awful performance in the local elections of the late 1960s.
That of course has been true, to one degree or another, for years, but the price tags presented to the class of 2000 seem particularly breathtaking, even compared to those of last year when the market was already torrid.
