Its pages featured Goldman, Djuna Barnes, William Carlos Williams and the journalist John Reed, described breathlessly by Wetzsteon as "a poet of adventure, aflame with dreams."

The jacket copy on this cassette breathlessly describes it as a "taut, suspenseful sensual delight" - presumably for the discerning viewer who finds rape, sadism and death camps delightfully sensual.

As an 8-year-old orangutan undergoes testing, Mr. Irwin breathlessly describes a fantastic procedure that will take "minutely detailed pictures from inside the skull."

Of late, the mayor's heart and mind have been preoccupied with a development proposal that he almost breathlessly describes as "a once-in-a-hundred-year opportunity" for reinventing the village's shoreline.

I haven't read the book but the way in which it is being promoted is extremely off-putting (newspaper reports of the book launches she's done in Indian cities breathlessly describe her "pretty" looks).

When Nira breathlessly described her awesome vision to Yarrod, though, the green priests around him simply nodded.

Recently, The Detroit News breathlessly described Mr. Fields, with his jet-black hair, as "movie star handsome," although his slightly rough-edged demeanor may be best suited to a Martin Scorsese film or an episode of "The Sopranos."

A babble of confirmation solidified this view, with a couple of people breathlessly describing Bel's selfless defense of the visiting dignitary with the shield of its own body.

He then breathlessly described how his units would surge southward from the pivotal front line and descend on the Afghan capital, a mere 35 miles away, after American jets had bombarded Taliban positions.

In bold type, the blog breathlessly described a music store stop in Littleton, N.H., "where John Kerry treated press and customers to a couple of songs on the guitar!"