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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. ❋ Lisa De Moraes (2011)

Kristin is an absolutely stunning, breath-takingly beautiful young woman. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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) …” ❋ Unknown (2008)

By Christmas Eve, “his massive amount of pains-takingly handcrafted precious merchandise has been eaten up as if by termites.” ❋ Unknown (2008)

A Bob Marshall campaign would have been so awesome and breath-takingly ridiculous to see. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Franz Kafka (2000)

Anyone who has advanced to the 200-level of any subject then gazes in astonishment at how breath-takingly stupid the comments of the hoi polloi seem. ❋ Unknown (2007)

However many undetected-by-me layers of 20-something cornball irony are in this post, I still find it breath-takingly casual to the issue at hand. ❋ Unknown (2007)

There is something breath-takingly crass about this sort of 'I am a scientist and you are stupid' post. tom catesby ❋ Unknown (2009)

Instead we get a breath-takingly dull insight into the coming re-arrangement of the Titanic's deck chairs. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"There is something breath-takingly crass about this sort of 'I am a scientist and you are stupid' post." ❋ Unknown (2009)

He is so breath-takingly incompetent that it's hard for the audience to root for him, and even a touching monologue by his father late in the film does little to bring the audience to his side. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It is breath-takingly cynical and irresponsible, and Obama should not be sucked into the trap. ❋ Unknown (2009)

That way, the damage done by the breath-takingly ignorant knuckleheads who run things out here is limited to this area of the country. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I was just there last week and the roses are breath-takingly gorgeous! ❋ Nupur (2006)

And yet they are so breath-takingly shot as to be ridiculsously fun, such that you find yourself laughing at the scenes on the screen as well as the audacity to even pretend the stunts could actually happen. ❋ Fred Perry (2008)