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...photograph should appear... as if God had breathed it onto the glass," Lucy writes. Jones' breathless wonderment at the machines of modernity was next parlayed into her third novel Dreams of Speaking (2006), where academic heroine Alice is literally lost in Wonderland as she ponders "those things wired, lit, automatic and swift"-from space travel and cinema to Hedy Lamarr's invention of a radio-controlled torpedo and the horror of Hiroshima...
...service line and the singles sideline, forcing Winingham hopelessly out of position and giving her no choice other than to come to net. Mukundan’s next shot, a topspin winner that hit the same vertex of lines on the opposite side of the court, left the gallery breathless and applauding.Having ended her Crimson career with a win, the four-year starter Mukundan reflected on what her fellow senior, Forgie, contributed in her single year with the team.“I’m very proud of how far she’s come and how hard she?...
...China's economic growth has surged to astonishing levels in recent years, a matching wave of books chronicling its rise has poured from the presses of publishers in Europe and the U.S. Many of these tend to be rather breathless accounts of how China's boom is affecting its own people and the rest of the world-tales of human struggle and environmental destruction within the Middle Kingdom, or, elsewhere, of entire steel factories being crated up and shipped to the mainland along with tens of thousands of jobs. But a second broad classification of China books is now emerging...
Although Lynch’s trumpet solo in “Lowdown” left the audience breathless, the jewel of the first half of the show was Thelonious Monk’s “Green Chimneys,” arranged by Michael L. Schachter...
Talmud brought Einstein science books, including a popular illustrated series called People's Books on Natural Science, "a work which I read with breathless attention," said Einstein. The 21 volumes were written by Aaron Bernstein, who stressed the interrelations between biology and physics, and reported in great detail the experiments being done at the time, especially in Germany...