Sentences with phrase «catch a breath of»

These trains are keeping me sane, allowing me to relax and catch a breath of fresh air despite the fact that train air is thick and filled with exhales and perspiration from strangers I'll never know.

Toronto Botanical Garden — Now, if you don't mind the weather or need to catch a breath of fresh air, a romantic walk through the outdoor trails of this botanical garden is always an option.

Also a very good point about drawing from reality — the artist needs to catch the breath of life in their subject — proof of the experience itself — where photos are static, dead and frozen.

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They can't or won't take the time to slow down and catch their collective breath; to take stock of their situation; and to really think about what should come next.

Offering pre-orders in the middle of the night likely reduces the strain on Apple's servers and gives it a chance to catch its breath before the bigger wave comes when East Coasters wake up.

Now, that housing has stabilized and consumers are able to catch financial breath, Fed policy can get back to the business of ensuring capital is allocated intelligently.

After three weeks of inflation scares and stormy stock markets, Wall Street can catch its breath.

Tolkien says it best: «It is the mark of a good fairy - story, of the higher or more complete kind, that however wild its events, however fantastic or terrible the adventures, it can give to child or man that hears it, when the «turn» comes, a catch of the breath, a beat and lifting of the heart, near to (or indeed accompanied by) tears, as keen as that given by any form of literary art... In such stories, when the sudden «turn» comes we get a piercing glimpse of joy, and heart's desire, that for a moment passes outside the frame, rends indeed the very web of story, and lets a gleam come through.»

And when it comes — there is this catching of breath: Nothing is ever too far gone for hope to come find you.

They have fascinating stories, the stories that leave me breathless with awe at my God, awe at the goodness of life in The Way, I needed to catch my breath a time or two, it was real.

And I have eleventy - billion of these moments a day too, seemingly small, times when my breath catches and I have no camera or pen nearby so I'm going to have to rely on my something in my soul remembering it forever because it's a step up a mountain, a roll of the rock of my own stubbornness, and I don't have any gods at the top, pushing me back to the bottom, laughing at my futile efforts.

Knowledge and who we «feel» is not going to get us into heaven, but the truth will... One day everybody, will have to give an account to God why we choose to reject him, and we won't have an excues... I didn't know, I wanted to, and all the others we come up with... You've heard who Jesus is, and still choose to wall away... Jesus came so that everybody would be saved, he doesn't want to lose not one but we need to listen to his voice and choose to follow him... The enemy walks around like a roaring lion seeking who he may destory, and unfortunatley he's caught some of us but until you take your last breath it's never too late to choose Christ...

When every day brings with it another startling act of authoritarianism or oppression, it's hard to catch your breath long enough to think of something worthwhile to say.

When I think about not breastfeeding — one of the most real things I've ever done with this body — ever again, I catch my breath with longing.

And I wasn't expecting it, not like that at all, but when I wind a bit of the corner, there it is, and our willowy girl behind me on the trail, she kinda catches her breath, like the wind's blown in, because there it is — a chapel of glass.

Here she recounts story after story of natural horror — of parasitism, of insects devouring their own eggs and of young devouring their parents — until she catches her breath and says, «Just think: in all the clean beautiful reaches of the solar system, our planet alone is a blot; our planet alone has death.»

Traditional Hawaiian attitudes toward time and work are very different from the hurried drivenness of most Westerners, who seldom have time «to catch their breath.»

Only this begging bowl, poor battered cup of my heart where once given to feeling now emptiness steals, catching at each new breath which, like the shore air over these waters, these sands, slips and runs away.

Baseball, that pleasant anachronism we play in the dog days when we have time to catch our breath and dream of the dusty past, was once our game.

We stop for a moment to catch our breath and ponder the irony of it all.

Stop to catch your breath, and take a sip of wine throughout your ride.

I had just reached the top of the parc hill and paused for a moment to catch my breath (yes, it makes me out of breath sometimes).

Our system was to each do 10 reps of the exercise and then switch off to let the other one catch our breath.

And then I caught my breath, calmed my nerves, and soaked up the immense beauty that resulted due to millions of years of activity in the Earth's lithosphere.

I hope you're doing well even in the midst of it all, and you can soon catch your breath.

At first I was at a school on Gianicolo hill, an occasional job with a sublime view over Rome's patchwork of terracotta and glinting cupolas that made me catch my breath every time, and almost made up for the exasperating school politics.

I'm a huge fan of Snow Days because» It's Mother Nature giving you an opportunity to pause, catch your breath, and take in the beauty of the world.»

Some are beginning to pause and catch their breath, to look back and understand how that night in Munich fits into the making of their lives.

For Thompson, caught in those intersecting lines of time and space, no breath he would take would be the same again.

The festive period is packed full of Premier League games, we will scarcely find an opportunity to catch our breath among it all.

Then to see him go down [on the hit by Moreau] andjump right back up, I kind of caught my breath.

I had to take a couple of puffs on my inhaler to catch my breath after watching the replay.

At night he ran sprints in the road in front of his brother's condo, each footfall pounding character and discipline into his frame, catching his breath in ragged clips before running the drills again.

Yes, we do need a change, we have become stale and predictable and while Wenger was like a breath of fresh air when he first came to England he has for the last few years been caught up and overtaken by other clubs.

Ollen had hardly caught his breath before officials of New York's Millrose A.A. had him by the elbow and were inviting him to pace the Wanamaker Mile in Madison Square Garden.

I was just running about and it all caught up on me then so I needed a couple of seconds just to get my breath back and realise just what I'd done.

The week after a major championship is usually a time to unwind, maybe catch your breath and take a break from golf after an intense week of watching hours of major coverage.

TPC Sawgrass's iconic 17th hole is one of the sport's most recognizable settings — and the most likely place to catch one of the world's best golfers cursing under his breath after swirling winds carry a wedge shot into the water that surrounds the island green.

Someone else that could demand consistent double teams, and could allow Aldridge to rest instead of being forced to lie down to catch his breath.

We're just catching our breath from what was one of the wildest Sunday back nines we've ever seen at a major championship, but Jordan Spieth is your 2017 Open Championship winner.

«I'd have people coming in and saying, «I'm a orphan from the plane wreck,» and afterward I'd have to sit back for four or five minutes and catch my breath,» athletic director Lance West says of his first days at Marshall, in 1995.

Quote (approx)» to have a realistic hope of catching the nine points deficit, we have to start reducing the gap before long»; er, yes, and to have a hope of staying alive we have to breath every few seconds.

Even when the hosts understandably slowed down to catch their collective breaths, West Ham were unable to maintain any meaningful possession, opting instead to lump the ball in the general direction of Matip and Klavan, who comfortably dealt with everything thrown their way.

I remember my breath catching in my throat at the thought of letting my baby continue to cry when I never had before.

I remember choosing it well over a year ago and thinking that it was just what we should all be doing this time of year as we come in and hunker down, catching our breath from the busy seasons before.

Hiccups are your body's way of helping you catch your breath and of telling you to slow down.

The company grew so quickly it took us a few years for us to catch our breath and realize that we had made something wonderful, something that is better for our planet, for babies and saves parents a lot of money.

Reprogrammed belief system, decided after originally planning elective caesarean that home birth was the go, committed time and energy into being pregnancy and preparing for birth, faith over fear, comfortable with midwife after devoting time and energy into the relationship, created vision board and reflected daily, music at birth, swayed body, focused inwards, concentrated on breath, support from partner, relief in water pool, slipped in and out of dreamlike consciousness, caught baby in own hand s, profound spiritual connection, trusting

I really think you should get out of the house with or without your hubby, but definitely without your children more often to catch your breath.

Since activities are normally compressed into a small amount of time, you find yourself flitting from one thing to the next, barely catching your breath.