Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a taking or attractive manner.
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Examples
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"The quality of the writing is breath-takingly high," Segal tells TV critics at Winter TV Press Tour 2011, convincing no one who'd just watched the clip from the show, about a Wall Street up-and-comer who decides to chuck it all and go live with his parents in retirement in Florida.
Old actors acting adorable on first day of Winter TV Press Tour 2011 Lisa de Moraes 2011
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Kristin is an absolutely stunning, breath-takingly beautiful young woman.
Twilight Lexicon » Video: Kristen Stewart at the MET Gala 2010
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Anonymous: “A wonderful system of coverage by specialists of the ERs has been annihilated by the crooked trial lawyers (jackpot justice lawsuits) and the breath-takingly incompetent federal bureaucrats (EMTALA, ever declining Medicaid/Medicare reimbursements, the destruction of primary care, and refusal to enforce immigration laws) …”
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A Bob Marshall campaign would have been so awesome and breath-takingly ridiculous to see.
GILMORE WINS 2008
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Anonymous: “A wonderful system of coverage by specialists of the ERs has been annihilated by the crooked trial lawyers (jackpot justice lawsuits) and the breath-takingly incompetent federal bureaucrats (EMTALA, ever declining Medicaid/Medicare reimbursements, the destruction of primary care, and refusal to enforce immigration laws) …”
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By Christmas Eve, “his massive amount of pains-takingly handcrafted precious merchandise has been eaten up as if by termites.”
A Bit of Punctuation 2008
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By Christmas Eve, “his massive amount of pains-takingly handcrafted precious merchandise has been eaten up as if by termites.”
A Bit of Punctuation 2008
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is often deliciously, pains-takingly slow (the plot being unfolded in the accumulation of clues), while Emma can seem a whirl of blunders and revelations.
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Anonymous: “A wonderful system of coverage by specialists of the ERs has been annihilated by the crooked trial lawyers (jackpot justice lawsuits) and the breath-takingly incompetent federal bureaucrats (EMTALA, ever declining Medicaid/Medicare reimbursements, the destruction of primary care, and refusal to enforce immigration laws) …”
VDARE.com: Blog Articles » Print » ER Crisis: WSJ Misses Point, Blog Comments Don’t 2008
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But it is certain that whoever sees him approaching with a solemnity far exceeding his age, in an always buttoned frock coat, in an old but pains-takingly brushed black hat, with his immobile face, his somewhat jutting chin, his lids arching heavily over the eyes, the two fingers sometimes raised to the mouth—whoever sees him like that thinks: This man is an absolute hypocrite.
The Metamorphosis, in The Penal Colony,and Other Stories Franz Kafka 2000
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