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Synonyms for swooning

weak and likely to lose consciousness

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They have instead opted to revisit the hushed, swooning dramatics of Mazzy Star as well as the cosmic Americana of Grandaddy and Sparklehorse.
And by Carefree, the erotic glamour of their partnership is clear in the beautiful duet to "Change Partners." Rogers, in a backless, black chiffon dress, is hypnotized by her pyschotherapist, Astaire, and the swooning backbends and final circling, horizontal lift tell us everything about her character's feelings for her partner.
Before art aficionados could stop swooning over Dallas's dazzling new Nasher Sculpture Center, George Michael's longtime boyfriend, Dallas native Kenny Goss, opened a 3,200-square-foot gallery featuring the work of megawatt art stars such as David LaChapelle and Richmond Burton.
His voice is beautiful and the melodies are swooning. He's growing in popularity as well, with Jack White from The White Stripes and The Hives namedropping him as the next big thing.
Nor, considering the book's subject matter and context, is it surprising that Olivia Joules frequently flirts with questionable taste: When an Osama bin Laden look-alike is described as a "compelling mixture of soulful and powerful" with "finely drawn features, a straight nose, fine, arched brows, hooded brown eyes," and an "aristocratic" and "languid" bearing, you may find yourself swooning for all the wrong reasons.
TALLDARK'N'HANDSOME (1.30) is fancied to have punters swooning in the two-mile novice hurdle at Leicester on Tuesday.
Whenever anyone headed toward the exit during the daily run of "Funky Lessons," a young woman startled visitors by melodramatically swooning at their feet and, with a faraway gaze, uttering a few cryptic words before quickly rising and returning to the reception desk.
Except that where James Bond leaves swooning women and smoking guns, this girl leaves a trail of panting men and perfume.
Granted, your ex looks great with his new contacts and everyone is swooning since he scored the winning goal in last night's soccer game.
Appearing at the National Press Club prior to the president's speech, Karzai beguiled the cynical international press corps with his charm, intelligence, and "animal magnetism." Apart from The Idler's anonymous correspondent, none of the swooning scribes saw fit to report a remark from Karzai that could be construed as a threat to the U.S.
Under the guise of promoting "art films," which leave the beret-and-black-turtleneck crowd swooning, Telefilm has been honing another tradition in Canadian film: propaganda.
Despite aggressive action by the Federal Reserve and indications of additional future interest rate cuts, the residential real estate market in New York City has felt the anxiety caused by the swooning stock markets, a cooling economy and the recognition that sales prices may have been inflated.
The only thing likely to induce swooning in the average parish today is to suggest that we might spend more than 55 minutes in church on Sunday.