Breathful
"Breathful" in a Sentence (35 examples)
They for nought would from their work refrain, Nor let his speeches come unto their ear; And eke the breathful bellows blew amain Like to the northern wind, that none could hear:
the universe as body, mass as energy and energy as mass, became transformed to spirit when, through us, originating laughter found a name for everything that is and nourished into breathful form.
His approach is not limited by a narrow understanding of media but brings an innovative, expanded conception that includes technologies or techniques of our selves (such as cultures of breath) animal bodies and their breathful selves, and nature as revealed through technology.
Fresh Costmarie, and breathfull Camomill.
Men came, they partook, and they breathed of ramps. They had left their telltale and breathful mark.
He spoke a queer, jerky kind of American that I can only describe as breathful.
He smelled the rank odor of the man and heard his breathful muttering.
Against the window her lips press a row of breathful O's until, due to both a quick and vengeful draft, her candle's flame lilts, disappears.
She was crying, great breathful sobs.
The breathful twist on timing also adds a touch of novelty and a bit of distraction when facing more difficult topics.
Breathful movement practices such as Chi Kung/ Qigong (Lam Kam Chuen 1999) have been used successfully by group psychotherapists to energize and soothe, even in settings where psychological distress is intense (Potik and Schreiber 2013).
The poem celebrates itself, wedding the body's cry with the mind's linguistic design; it is a metaphor for the literal human voice transformed into poetic speech. One might imagine that in the beginning was the letter O and its breathful sound.
Individual wind instruments do not get obscured during the interplay of the tutti orchestra. Each section appears in naturally airy, breathful, resonant relief.
But now Chet is back again with the long, breathful pauses of My Funny Valentine, and my favourite work of art which he rhymes with heart and all the mystery of trying to make the big and the little things fit seems just like the breath, the precarious breath
The end result of the Princeton experiment was that a startled but breathful Rutgers team downed a hell-raising breathless Princeton squad, 6-4.
My face relaxed as a smile broke my tension. I hitched my pack up, stood straight, and walked with measured, breathful steps.
After the noon-blaze, in the breathful eve, The many 'folk of holiday ' come out ; And lovers saunter on the pier, and leave The gossip of their friends, to walk about
Lying awake with back that burned beneath its lotioned rags, when lights were low, in the breathful silence of the hospital, he registered in his heart a terrible oath that he would die ere he would again be made such hideous sport for his enemies.
It was the breathful stillness of a tropical afternoon.
And I decide to write to you as soon as I get a breathful respite.
Now I plunge my pen against the page and scribble toward a purpose unperceived, for now, in breathful, placid frame, I am no more a poet than a rose;
No special technique needed. Just take time to sense this breathful movement.
Once you've swirled, close your eyes and take a good breathful of the wine.
Before my taxi arrived I went to her wardrobe and pressed my face into her dresses, hoping to keep a breathful of her with me.
I like the church, which seems to be holding a breathful of vivid memories whenever I'm in there alone.
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Approximately I/5 of the oxygen in each breathful of air is absorbed by the body.
The planter caught a big breathful of anger, but Charlie went straight on: “I rather wouldn't, mais I will do it for you;—just the same, like Monsieur le Compte would say, 'Charlie, you old fool, I want to shange houses wid you.'
Samantha took in a breathful of ocean air, then scrambled farther.
A crackling cloud billowed up and Elfloq had drawn in several breathfuls before he could stagger back out of range.
A single breathful draws in more air molecules than there are breathfuls of air in Earth's entire atmosphere.
Estelle lay in bed, groggily complaining against the gas light, and Miriam teased her, and Estelle told her to quit or get the devil out of here, but Miriam wouldn't quit, and Estelle thrashed around and pushed her and soon they had a little fight and then they both lay and told about their men, Estelle a breathful about her Dick, Miriam the next breathful about her Sammy.
"The crisis of our time," he writes, "is one of which the entire cause lies in the hearts of men," and only poetry can cure this "failure of desire" because "only poetry, exploring the spirit of man, is capable of creating in a breathful of words the common good men have become incapable of imagining for themselves."
The arbitrary time limit measured by breathsful of talk not only protects the pair or group from flooding but can also comfort the nervous disclosure by providing a limited demand.
A fifteen-month gap separates the recording of the "The First Part" from "The Third Part," but the music could just as easily be two bubbles blown from the same fish on the same breathful of water.
And, cordially, putting a brotherly arm around his visitor, he would blow a breathful of ether in his face.
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