"breathless" = breathtaking (Michele Bachmann)

[Cohen, Gerald Leonard]

Thiis may be a blend:  "...truly is breathtaking" + "truly leaves you breathless".

Gerald Cohen

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 Ben Zimmer wrote, Sunday, July 22, 2012 2:37 PM:

Perhaps merely a breathless Bachmannism...
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/story/2012-07-20/bachmann-brotherhood-comments/56370300/1
"The influence today of the Muslim Brotherhood at the highest levels,
from the White House, to the Pentagon, to the FBI, even to our United
States military, truly is breathless and people have to know about
it," Bachmann said.
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