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Time also asks several celebrities about the pill (Camille Paglia: "The erection is the last gasp of modern manhood."
At times he speaks in short, halting phrases, pausing between the most unlikely words, and then he'll rush through a series of phrases so quickly that he'll nearly run out of breath and almost gasp out the last words--rhythm as characterization, his cadences revealing the contours of his troubled spirit as concisely as his words.
Is it the last gasp of a former culture that wants to hold back the new one?
After years of opposition on social matters, Berliners solidly supported what proved to be the Hohenzollerns’ last military gasp — World War I. At the start of the hostilities in August 1914, people gathered in thousands to cheer the Kaiser at the royal palace.
2.266), even the most unflappable reader must gasp at the Moor's offer to Gratiano: “Here is my journey's end, here is my butt,” nor will his guffaws entirely abate after he learns that butt here means goal . In Twelfth Night (v.