Adverb
In a breathtaking manner.
The view was breathtakingly beautiful.
To a degree that causes shock or awe; shockingly.
It was a breathtakingly foolish thing to say in public.
God works in mysterious, inefficient, and breathtakingly cruel ways. Penn Jillette
In today's Britain, the idea that there could be a Constitution more powerful - and even sacrosanct - than any crowned head or elected politician (thus abolishing the false antithesis between hereditary monarchs and capricious presidents) is thought of as a breathtakingly new and daring idea. Christopher Hitchens
Life, we now know, is nothing but a vast array of coordinated chemical reactions. The "secret” to that coordination is the breathtakingly complex set of instructions inscribed-again, chemically-in our DNA. James D. Watson
I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad. Mark Haddon
Frighteningly Beautiful, Dangerously Strong, Breathtakingly Fast. Face it Tally-wa you're special... Scott Westerfeld
I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land. Yann Martel