Word: breathlessly
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...Barthelme characters and Barthelme settings pale beside Barthelme plots-or what passes as plots. One story consists of 100 sentences, neatly numbered. Another story, Sentence, is just that: 7½ pages of breathless, free-form monologue dotted by commas, colons, even exclamation points, but nary a period-not even at the end. The Explanation is formed as a series of questions and answers. But the answers start turning into questions themselves, and of course nothing is ever explained...
...months to come, as those playgoers troop out of the Alvin Theater, punctured with laughter and a little pensive with an added wisdom of life, they may be looking for one word to describe this show. It's a breathless New York In word-one that New Yorkers haven't had much cause to use recently-fabulous...
...Church always arrives on the scene a little breathless and a little late...
Wrighter's Cramp. In their surprisingly breathless first year, the First Couple has presided over 64 state and official dinners. There have been 116 receptions and 19 Sunday worship services (the dinner invitations remain the most sought-after in Washington these days). The White House calligraphy staff, responsible for designing and painstakingly inscribing every invitation, have perpetual wrighter's cramp. Those accepting the invitations (and few do not) have witnessed a tumble of talent: Duke Ellington and Andrew Wyeth, Isaac Stern and Leonard Bernstein, Bob Hope and Red Skelton, and the Broadway cast...
...thousand people in Memorial Church wouldn't have been surprised if the world ended yesterday. In the 15 seconds of breathless silence after the University Choir's performance of the B Minor Mass, many thought that they had heard all of the music that they would ever need to hear...