Definition & Meaning | English word BREATHTAKINGLY

Definitions of BREATHTAKINGLY

1. In a breathtaking manner.
2. To a degree that causes shock or awe; shockingly.

Examples of Using BREATHTAKINGLY in a Sentence

• " His screenplay for Network is often regarded as his masterpiece, and has been hailed as "the kind of literate, darkly funny and breathtakingly prescient material that prompts many to claim it as the greatest screenplay of the 20th century.
• " Reviewer Mat Snow qualified Alan Wilder's composition "Two Minute Warning" as "a haunting melody whose transition from verse to chorus explodes in one of those breathtakingly uplifting moments" and concluded that Depeche Mode "have made a bold and lovely pop record.
• The Buddha Amitabha statue, sometimes known as Buddhalokanatha statue, in Phật Tích Pagoda is a breathtakingly beautiful stone sculpture with sophisticated costuming.
• Her death scene has been referred by Active Animes Holly Ellingwood as "tragic, inspiring, and beautifully, breathtakingly sad" for its presentation.
• In 2018, Whelan published her debut novel, My Oxford Year, which Entertainment Weekly called "a breathtakingly perfect picture of Oxford" and "a powerfully heartbreaking and life-affirming tribute to love and to choice".
• Ron Hubbard's futuristic novel is so breathtakingly awful in concept and execution, it wouldn't tax the smarts of a troglodyte.
• " Rutgers professor Barry Qualls recalled, "Jim was breathtakingly smart and very funny, and didn't care for other people's sanctities.
• In a retrospective review published in 2020, JR Moores of Record Collector gave the album a perfect score, calling the comparatively "lusher and mellower" album "breathtakingly beautiful" and even "life-changing".
• But even the deadly slow stretches are redeemed by cameraman Henri Decaë, whose breathtakingly sophisticated photography is a show in itself, imperceptibly shaded as the action moves from lush Rousseau tropics to the cabaret scenes that exude a smoky golden haze in which Moreau and Bardot appear like creatures of Lautrec or Degas, ineffably alluring.
• Variety called it "An often breathtakingly original meld of road movie, lesbian love story, psychodrama and black comedy".
• " She described the novel as both "breathtakingly brilliant and stupefying dull – funny, maddening and elegiac," and predicted that "The Pale King will be minutely examined by longtime fans for the reflexive light it sheds on Wallace's oeuvre and his life" and will also "snag the attention of newcomers, giving them a window – albeit a flawed window – into this immensely gifted writer's vision of the human condition as lived out in the middle of the middle of America.
• The critic eloquently portrayed the film's captivating allure, beginning with a mesmerising opening scene—a serene and noiseless voyage through a vibrant coral reef, leading into a breathtakingly beautiful lagoon.
• " Writing for The Guardian, author Sophie Hannah selected the novel as one of her "top 10 pageturners", adding that "it's a perfectly paced mystery with a beautiful solution and a breathtakingly twisty final chapter.
• " Kevin Maher of The Times also gave the film 1/5 stars, calling it "a baffling, breathtakingly inept rom-com that plays like a horrifying cross-fertilisation of Richard Curtis comedies with Robin Askwith sex films.

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