But the church took its most breathtaking leap of faith when it hired its architect, Suzane Reatig.

The bid certainly denied diamond shortage, so without going through the formality of asking for aces, Hussein made a breathtaking leap to seven no-trump, causing some tension around the table.

If all goes according to plan, the Government of Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki will emerge strengthened, able to boast that it pulled off a breathtaking leap from Communism to capitalism.

Instead of preparing for a breathtaking leap, they have hard-edged, streamlined momentum.

For the young playwright, the Broadway opening next Sunday of his "M. Butterfly" represents a breathtaking leap.

WHEN the decade began, the prevailing image of the National Basketball Association was the breathtaking vertical leap of Michael Jordan.

The second breathtaking leap presupposes that this 107th Congress will determine the budget decisions of the next four Congresses, and that this president will bind the budget of presidents to 2010.

In such ways does Ms. Potter, who wrote the screenplay and directed the film, make the same kind of breathtaking, utterly rational leaps in time and place that Woolf does in prose.

Suddenly it makes breathtaking leaps.

I pictured Caroline Olson's amazing extension, her breathtaking leaps; she reached almost the height expected of male superstars.