Heart pounding, she grabbed it and sprinted back to their car.
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Every night, I awake in terror, awash with sweat, heart pounding.
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He always awakens, heart pounding, and finds himself flooded with relief.
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When I returned, heart pounding and awash with anxiety, I came out.
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Heart pounding, I climbed into a yellow cab at La Guardia Airport.
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Sam is suddenly very aware of her heart pounding up in her throat.
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Copperthwaite recalls approaching the finish line, his heart pounding, barely able to breathe.
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This one features some heart-pounding international thriller music accompanying the furtive dunks.
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The final few levels were heart pounding in a way I never expected.
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It showed one of his officers in a heart-pounding act of rescue.
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I could feel my heart pounding, fast, and my mind racing with desperate thoughts.
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That's what starts your heart pounding and primes your muscles to fight or flee.
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It's heart-pounding action, even more notable because very little of it is CGI.
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For the record, I am a sweaty, heart-pounding, stammering blob at group functions.
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Ms. Jiang stayed close to the ground, her heart pounding as bullets flew overhead.
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Then I would wake up, my heart pounding, with a wish to call back.
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It's beautiful and heart-pounding, with giant AT-ACT walkers coming right at you.
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Gate E. She sits, heart pounding as she wrestles with the idea of jumping.
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We expect to see a lot of heart-pounding chases down those hallways soon enough.
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Hundreds of personnel and policy decisions have to be made at a heart-pounding speed.
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Let's get into the stand-out scenes and information we learned in this heart-pounding episode.
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"Exercise doesn't have to be a heart-pounding, sweat-dripping experience to be effective," she says.
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Heart pounding, I tossed and turned, unable to get her grody face out of my head.
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" She feels her lover's chest rapturously to find his heart "pounding wildly, in tandem with hers.
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Don't miss your chance to attend and experience every heart-pounding moment live and in person.
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You can throw a tantrum in anger with your heart pounding, or calmly plot your revenge.
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For weeks I saw that bear's face in my dreams, and I woke up, heart pounding.
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Sunday night's heart-pounding conclusion apparently did not leave viewers wanting more of an adrenaline rush.
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What is about slo-mo that transforms kids on a trampoline into a heart-pounding cinematic sequence?
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I remember asking myself those questions, and with a heart pounding full of anxiety, I did it.
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Their experiences vary: some say they remained unflustered, whereas for others it was a heart-pounding ordeal.
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They reach for the door, heart pounding, and slowly pulls… (another moment to turn to page three).
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The first is Atif, lured away from a humdrum coastal town by ISIS's heart-pounding recruitment videos.
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Get your holiday football fix this Sunday with 12 heart-pounding match-ups, including Cowboys vs. Eagles.
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Each level has a slightly different vibe: some are calm and relaxing, others have a heart-pounding intensity.
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The Ultimate Ears Megablast Bluetooth speaker delivers powerful 360 degree sound, with high clarity and heart-pounding bass.
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The life of a hurricane rescue worker oscillates between long periods of waiting, punctuated by heart-pounding action.
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Alafair Burke draws from her legal background and experience as a former professor in this heart-pounding thriller.
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Before she can stop herself, Eve ends up in a heart-pounding, high-wire act of lethal consequence.
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It was six weeks of heart-pounding, sweat-pouring, hysterical-crying anxiety, and I couldn't stand it anymore.
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Nine times in that heart-pounding decider, 232-year-old French Open champion Nadal served to stay alive.
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The LAPD also released dashcam and bodycam video related to the heart-pounding pursuit and exchange of gunfire.
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But she still wakes in the middle of the night, her heart pounding, her body beaded with sweat.
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A new novel from Colson Whitehead, an oral history of World War II, heart-pounding thrillers and more.
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When I finally got my head above water and clambered ashore, heart pounding, I had three immediate thoughts.
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He watched it, one of the few Russians allowed to, his heart pounding with anxiety for the crew.
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She was trying to walk in the water—lost her balance, stumbled—woke abruptly, heart pounding in panic.
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Mr. Trump's lies are dime novel, pulp fiction, heart-pounding, mesmerizing and that's where they derive their power.
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It's exhilarating to be surrounded by such heart-pounding action; that feeling wouldn't fully translate on a smaller screen.
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Every second we were underwater with the tiger shark was heart pounding, but I was addicted to the adrenaline.
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When a monster is nearby, you'll hear a loud thumping of the little girl's heart pounding in your ears.
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The Megablast produces intensely rich sound, high clarity, and heart-pounding bass, with up to 12 hours of battery.
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An intermix of heart-pounding horror with moments of harsh beauty and humor can often be a difficult cocktail.
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The Ivory Game would just be another heart-pounding crime thriller if its subject matter wasn't so depressingly true.
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The night before her first solo flight, she was too excited to sleep, her heart pounding in her chest.
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It's going from heart-pounding fear to loneliness to self-doubt to anger to outrage, all within a few minutes.
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It's a film full of terrifying, heart-pounding terror, on par with some of the best work in Scott's career.
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The device also had a button that the patient was told to push whenever she felt her heart pounding wildly.
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He doesn't fix the water heater, he has a heart-pounding battle with an evil villain called the Water Eater.
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The upcoming Marvel film Black Panther comes to theaters February 2018, boasting an incredible cast and a heart-pounding trailer.
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The series is described as a fresh, heart-pounding journey into the complex world of America's elite undercover military heroes.
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In particular, some of Stranger Things' most heart-pounding beats seem borrowed from the Jurassic Park playbook in Season 2.
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Resist the urge to melt into your couch with a playlist of heart-pounding tunes that both energise and inspire.
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That's the kind of heart-pounding thrill ride we're looking for out of Hyperloop – on top of safety of course.
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The one where you're running and running and running, your heart pounding, your lungs exploding — and you are not moving.
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My National Park The writer on how her greeting to a bison led to an unexpected, and heart-pounding, experience.
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On the launchpad, engines quaking, heart pounding "3, 2, 1, liftoff" taking me to a place few have ever seen.
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Since rich kids typically get swimming lessons from birth, my days of heart-pounding rescues came to an abrupt end.
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Insider has compiled a list of 16 heart-pounding activities that everyone should try at least once in their lifetime.
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It's both a heart-pounding film and a humanizing one, following the children who become part of the drug empire.
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The slim TV also features Ultra Surround, an immersive audio experience from seven virtual channel that delivers heart-pounding sound.
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Rosario ended Thursday's game by throwing out Rafael Devers at the plate to preserve a heart-pounding, one-run victory.
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I left it for a few days, but curiosity eventually got the better of me, and heart pounding, I opened it.
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It is a (forgive me) heart-pounding, tireless journey through setbacks and around red tape, and an exploration of human innovation.
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In this surreal setting, DJ Dan delighted partygoers with 80 blissful minutes of funky breaks, jackin' house, and heart-pounding techno.
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The next day she felt her heart pounding in her throat and the same spacy-headed jitters from the day before.
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In a season filled with heart-pounding victories, Wilson had once again been his best when on the brink of defeat.
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It was celebrated in a heart-pounding movie, "Argo," released in 22013, with Ben Affleck (who also directed) portraying Mr. Mendez.
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For one hour, a stress-free, heart-pounding, fun, fat-burning dance mix that give you amazing health benefits and even muscles!
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Watch some of the most heart-pounding moments in our video above, and check out more E3 coverage in our E3 hub.
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I'm on FaceTime with both of them, following the action in real time, heart pounding, when they step through the front door.
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With my heart pounding, we dropped down to the ocean floor, but before we hit the bottom I found myself surround by sharks.
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I can feel my heart pounding, and there were so many interactive things that were so cool, and it was so beautiful actually.
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The aircraft comes close to touching down, but instead, in a heart-pounding moment bounces off the runway on its back tires instead.
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I woke up, heart pounding, realized it wasn't true, raised my fists above my head and sprang out of bed like a champion.
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The action was at times heart-pounding, as a suspect wove through residential streets and accelerated to more than 100 miles an hour.
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And after a Soyuz capsule launch failed, forcing two astronauts into a heart-pounding emergency landing, we wondered how we'd get back to space.
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For example, a particularly helpful-sounding "cinema mode" is on the way, possibly to help make your most heart-pounding videos seem more immersive.
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But we can use this section to talk about the most heart-pounding moment of the episode, when Naz nearly confesses to the murder.
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Usually, these thoughts manifest with physical symptoms, like having trouble breathing, feeling your heart pounding, getting hot or cold, or just sensing general nervousness.
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And it's seldom that I feel my heart pounding -- not really on any of those times in Central Park or in front of people.
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Eli stepped forward, shook the head of school's hand, took the diploma and then sank back into the chair on the riser, heart pounding.
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They contain moments of arresting subtlety and sensuality as well as — in the last three minutes or so of this clip — heart-pounding, thrilling, drama.
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With American Horror Story: Cult's September 5 premiere date inching closer, fans are gearing up for another season of heart-pounding terror and unfathomable gore.
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Like that iconic, oft-sampled sound, nightcore's inescapable appeal lies in loud, brash, low-brow fun, a heart-pounding blunderbuss of gooey, candy-coated sounds.
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And, often, I stand at my scroll saw, I feel my heart pounding, knowing I cannot mess up; otherwise, I'm risking to lose the piece.
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My girlfriend was very masculine-presenting, but I could feel my heart pounding in my chest as I searched for their reaction — if they'd noticed.
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A heart-pounding CGI sequence shows Squall making a run for it while his teammates watch from inside the ship, which is already taking off.
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Just in time for our real-life eclipse comes Kelly's heart-pounding novel, which is structured around the primal fear such an event can elicit.
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Its plot frequently twists and turns in sudden and devastating fashion, weaving in and out of storylines with an urgency that leaves your heart pounding.
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Brittany brought up the heart pounding moment when she has to disclose her sexuality to a doctor, because even themedical office isn't necessarily a safe space.
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Scientists lust after genomes like the wolf from a Tex Avery cartoon, heart pounding in throat, tongue lolling, fist pounding on the table, submarine-dive-ahOOOgah!
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" My heart pounding, I replied: "Xx" The rest of the day was spent in a similar vein—talking about "Olly14lovesrrugby," thinking about "Olly14lovesrrugby," and texting "Olly14lovesrrugby.
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The series featured highly sanitized dancers with heart-pounding levels of talent... Sure, what the movie had in choreography it lacked in dialogue, originality and substance.
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The heart-pounding, edge-of-your-seat, eye-opening eco-thriller Sea of Shadows, which will make its National Geographic debut on Saturday, at 9 p.m.
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Ultimate Ears Blast Speaker — save £100 This stylish speaker delivers rich sound, elegant clarity, and heart-pounding bass, with up to 12 hours of battery life.
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The stirring, heart-pounding Twitter screed that resulted was, hands down, the best thing that hell site has seen since Barry Jenkins's Notting Hill plane tweets.
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For people like me who have been following the case and expecting this decision, it was still a heart-pounding "OMG, this is really happening" moment.
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It gives a clear sense of what the film genuinely accomplishes, albeit suggesting more heart-pounding action than you'll find in the film's more contemplative tone.
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True to form (this is an Australian film, after all), The Dish is more or less a comedy, though a very heartfelt and occasionally heart-pounding one.
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I puked my guts out, but then spent the rest of the night in a panicked sweat, heart pounding and muscles quivering, I thought I might die.
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" No doubt Greenberg's intellect was part of the attraction, and the world he opened to Frankenthaler was thrilling; she described her new social life as "heart pounding.
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Every exciting, heart-pounding minute takes place in front of a live audience numbering in the thousands, and we live-stream it to the world on TechCrunch.
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Biometric data showing Armstrong's heart pounding at 156 beats a minute at the moment Eagle touches down on the lunar surface, belying his reputation as Mr. Coolstone.
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And a duel it was, a heart-pounding one, as the two of them glided down the backstretch side by side as if they were stuck together.
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"I have to risk a lot," said Thiem, alluding to the aggressive way he has to play, same as in those last, heart-pounding moments against Zverev.
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She has come to put on professional cycling shoes, clip in to a stationary bicycle and engage in the steamy, heart-pounding, candlelit fitness obsession known as SoulCycle.
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Like America's Best Dance Crew, which premiered just two years later, the series featured highly sanitized dancers with heart-pounding levels of talent and annoyingly pro-social attitudes.
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For singer Selena Gomez and the Oakland Raiders' rookie class, summertime means a trip to Six Flags for a heart-pounding ride on one its massive roller-coasters.
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I walked away from it feeling like I had swam 50 laps, my heart pounding and endorphins rushing around under my skin, and all I did was talk.
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After I was safely home with my husband that night, I couldn't think about the assault without my heart pounding and tasting my attacker's blood in my mouth.
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With the former, there is a very light and floating lift, and with the latter, there is an incredibly heavy heart-pounding weight, like a slow feel-good headache.
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It's a brutal, heart-pounding stretch that feels most like home invasion horror, with Krauss as the sadistic, conscience-free aggressor, and no means of escape for his victims.
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If it can continue surprising audiences with these kinds of heartfelt social scenes and heart-pounding action sequences, The Dragon Prince may well grow into a new all-time classic.
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Every confrontation was a heart-pounding battle as you were had to manage your resources, pick your opportunities, and scrape through to the next horrible situation as best you could.
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Up on the edge of a massive turret, heart pounding, spotlight blaring to call me down (no turning back), I lean out in the slowest-motion dive into the abyss.
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Sounds from the looted shop fronts and TVs compete for attention, a cacophony of smashing glass, crackling fires and panicked news coverage that brings a heart-pounding sense of confusion.
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I was rocketing straight up in bed at four o'clock in the morning with my heart pounding, because it had occurred to me, mid-sleep, that death, as a concept, existed.
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I even dropped the phone in a sink full of water after overcoming what I can only describe as an innate, heart-pounding fear of purposely destroying such an expensive gadget.
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And here's the thing: this is not even the central theme of Hell or High Water, which really is just a heart-pounding, cat-and-mouse-game of a good time.
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The repetitive vocal sample of the word "drive" and the heart-pounding rhythm feel of a piece with their debut single "The New Wave," which they recorded around the same time.
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What differentiates HIIT (or SIT) from the steady-state, continuous types of exercise — jogging at an even pace or walking, for example — is the intervals, those periods of heart-pounding intensity.
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Thumper is described as a "rhythm violence" game, and the tag fits: it's an aggressive, heart-pounding experience, one where it feels more like you're fighting a song, rather than playing one.
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"Lagaan" (2001), whose centerpiece was a rousing match of underdog (Indian) versus overdog (British colonials), got the heart pounding, even if you couldn't follow all the ins and outs of the game.
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Suddenly I found myself stumbling into jewelry stores on Connecticut Avenue, my heart pounding so hard that I was unable to speak when a salesman first asked whether he could help me.
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For all the hype they were putting out about "cutting-edge digital sound" and a "custom IMAX sound system to provide crystal clear, heart-pounding audio throughout the studio," I was thoroughly underwhelmed.
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It's a heart-pounding bit of escapism that has the added benefit of making you really want to get off the couch and get moving — just what I want to read right now.
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I read online accounts of broken engagements, identifying signs and symptoms, my heart pounding the way it does when I wake up with a stiff neck and read the meningitis page on WebMD.
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When he bumped into her in the dark, the little yelp that ensued was close enough to the traumatic screams of old that it brought me out of a sound sleep, heart pounding.
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Yet after more than four hours of heart-pounding drama, Anderson had astonishingly come from two-sets down and survived a match point before edging the Swiss 13-11 in the fifth set.
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"At first I thought the watch was wrong because I've always been healthy and I used to be an athlete [...] and I couldn't feel my heart pounding fast which was weird," Hendershot told BuzzFeed News.
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This episode finally gave me that heart-pounding "oh hell yeah" feelings I got from Orphan Black in the first season, which is fitting, because we're doing a lot of going back to the past.
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It's almost like the good old days — the kind of heart-pounding financial ride that led to the dot-com crash of early 2000 and, yet again, to the calamitous economy of the mid-2000s.
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It came through the stone walls of the 766-year-old church: the heart-pounding throb of millions of hands clapping and voices cheering, a joyful rising tide reverberating through the hallowed halls of Westminster Abbey.
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"When she began drawing the picture and had her hands shaking and was taking so long to draw the prompt, I had my heart pounding thinking she must know I am going to propose," Monaco said.
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It all came down to one heart-pounding moment: with the game tied, Zand was the last remaining player, and he was in sight of two different coins, both of which could push his squad ahead.
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A heart-pounding epic, the books follow protagonist Thomas and his friends as they fight to survive against the elements and a mysterious organization that experiments on them in a world left devastated from a plague.
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I don't drive regularly, and was convinced that my body's heart-pounding fight-or-flight response to the horns blaring around me and taxis cutting me off had scared away that poor little embryo for good.
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As I stood at the top of the zip-line myself, heart pounding and cheeks stiff from smiling, I realized that the truth is somewhere between Gruen's socialist utopia where dreams come true and critics' capitalist dystopia.
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Fresh off Baby Driver, this is another action-packed role for Elgort, and Moretz is a veteran of heart-pounding dramas thanks to hits like If I Stay and Dark Places — and the dream team doesn't stop there.
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"I'm enormously excited by what we've created: a new Vantage that's more explicit in looks and intent, wrapping heart-pounding performance and dazzling dynamics into an everyday usable package," Aston Martin's CEO, Andy Palmer, said in a statement.
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The town is famous for its heart-pounding thrills — zip line rides and paraglide flights and bungee jumps — but also for its therapeutic post-adventure options in the form of muscle-soothing thermal baths, saunas and indigenous herbal teas.
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It's difficult to wring laughs out of a heart-pounding police showdown or the gruesome death of an undeserving woman, but there are other moments in El Camino where Gilligan winks at the absurd heights his work can reach.
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I was wired on Rip It energy drinks heart pounding, eyes glued open to the bright screens as we followed a white bongo truck for miles as it drove south, kicking up dust from the Syrian border through the open desert.
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" In one of her own written statements about her condition, she referred to her "anxiety, sleeplessness, heart pounding," her "constriction in the throat (a feeling of suffocation)," and the fact that she was "always very worried, even concerning minor things.
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He scored twice and excelled on defense in a heart-pounding Game 4 victory, getting help from the other outfielders: Jackie Bradley Jr. hit the go-ahead home run and Andrew Benintendi made the game-saving catch in the ninth.
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In a heart-pounding video shared on Instagram on Friday, the Super Bowl champ was lured onto the edge of a waterfall by his six-year-old daughter, and the two then jumped off into the pool of water below hand-in-hand.
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I don't know if Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev ever saw this heart-pounding propaganda slugfest, but if he did, he should have saved us all a lot of time and just gone ahead and torn down that wall a couple of years early.
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From Evan Rachel Wood's Dolores lamenting that "there may be something wrong with this world" to Rodrigo Santoro's deliberately larger-than-life Hector Escaton — and especially Thandie Newton's heart-pounding portrayal of Maeve — every actor on this show is putting in the work.
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Directed by brothers Josh and Benny Safdie, who drew on stories they heard from their father to make the film, Uncut Gems boasts the same heart-pounding intensity of their 2017 feature Good Time, but with a bit more polish and panache.
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DETROIT Just thinking about it gets the heart pounding: Kathryn Bigelow, the best action director in movies, reunites with her "Zero Dark Thirty" and "The Hurt Locker" screenwriter, the journalist Mark Boal, for an ensemble procedural set during the Detroit riots of 1967.
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Dunkirk is a visually stunning, and heart-pounding slow burn, fueled by its suspenseful score from Hans Zimmer, and its perfectly cast crew of soldiers, commanders, and civilians who rely on their facial expressions and physical acting ability rather than the film's sparse dialogue.
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She entered the scene in the late '90s, just as music was seeing the aforementioned deluge of Latin artists, with Ricky Martin, Marc Anthony and others preparing the ears of American listeners for the heart-pounding, dance-ready beats they wanted to serve up.
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The long final straight set up a heart-pounding finish as Creator ran down Destin with virtually the final stride to cover the distance in two minutes, 28.51 seconds, while Lani made an electric charge of his own as the three gray colts left the rest behind.
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The segue from her debut, the patchy Pure Heroine, to Melodrama is a charmingly transparent refinement of her presentational stance, much the way adolescents jump from persona to persona; the album buzzes not with any one persona but rather the heart-pounding thrill of projecting one.
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She pulled on to a side street, and the car behind her did, too, and she returned to the main road, and it did, too, so she and her son went instead to her parents' place, where she parked in the driveway with her heart pounding.
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It was just signaling the hour, of course, but sometimes, when I was lost in play outside at the height of a Texas summer, that long, loud wail would send me sprinting toward the safety of the house, heart pounding like a rabbit who had barely escaped a hunter's first shot.
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In the latest alkyl-nitrite related news, those little metallic cans of heart-pounding juice are pretty much over in the UK. British Members of Parliament voted 309 to 228 against an amendment to the upcoming Psychoactive Substances Bill that aimed to exclude alkyl nitrites from the list of banned drugs.
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For my money Mid903s is the first mainstream-ish film to capture the feeling of popping an ollie for the first time or the dramatic rollercoaster of emotions that come from finding yourself sprinting full-speed, heart pounding, from the cops seconds after enjoying a lazy session with friends in an abandoned schoolyard.
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Texas shootout: Astros outast Dodgers in 10th HOUSTON — With ball after ball clearing the fences at Minute Maid Park, with wild swings of momentum seemingly accompanying every home run bashed into the frenzied crowd, it was surprising that a single capped one of the zaniest, heart-pounding World Series games in memory.
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I awoke in the dark, at three or four in the morning, and sat up with my heart pounding, my mind spinning its wheels through the various unlikely fixes for the unmoored condition I was in: get a new job, apply to graduate school, move back to the city, move to the countryside.
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The 1936-37 General Motors sit-down strikes by the United Automobile Workers, which led to the unionization of the auto industry — and widespread unionization across other sectors — get a heart-pounding chapter, where union leadership is constantly struggling with its own membership, the membership itself is divided and public opinion shifts perilously.
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As the first season has progressed, the series has grown into one of the most deftly executed dramas currently on TV. The show's sixth episode, "Which Side Are You On?" ended in heart-pounding fashion with Kendall Roy's (Jeremy Strong) failed attempt at staging a coup against his tyrannical father Logan (Brian Cox).
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Until then, I'd never experienced a panic attack, and at first I didn't understand what was happening: All I could think, as I stood in a crowded train station with my heart pounding out of my chest, was that my life as I knew it was over and that I was going to die.
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But her ability to draw readers into heart-pounding action sequences — from the "perfect wave" of a sled dog team bounding across the snow to the disorienting rotor wash of tourist helicopters in a whiteout — is what makes the book so courageous and original as both a travel narrative and a memoir of self-discovery.
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The brilliance of Years and Years, and its uncanny, heart-pounding horror, is how incredibly close this all feels — not only because the timeline kicks off practically in the present and then unfolds throughout our immediate future (5, 10, 15, 20 years from now), but because we can experience this terrifying near future through the perspectives of a cross-class, multiracial family.
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They both issued dire contradictory warnings about the future of the country on the same day: Brennan arguing that Russians have interfered with the US and were helped by the Trump campaign, and Bannon released a heart-pounding movie trailer that argues the media is bent on bringing Trump down -- and the November election is the only chance to save his presidency.
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" It's also the only graphic novel to appear on Time's list of the 100 best novels released since the publication began in 1923, with critic Lev Grossman writing in 2010, "Told with ruthless psychological realism, in frugal, overlapping plotlines and gorgeous, cinematic panels rich with repeating motifs, Watchmen is a heart-pounding, heartbreaking read and a watershed in the evolution of a young medium.
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As Robert Griffin III sat in the front row at the Downtown Athletic Club eight years ago, he could sense the room going silent and his heart pounding through his chest when the master of ceremonies announced: "And the winner of the 19403 Heisman Trophy is …" There is so much from that night that Griffin remembers: the camaraderie with the four other finalists, the celebrations his winning the award set off at Baylor University, the humility of joining a select fraternity of top college football players.
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It is time to collect all memories of violence living in our bodies… the heart-pounding footsteps approaching behind us, the "accidental" brushing against our breasts, the muttered-under-the breath vulgarities, the cat-called threats, the porn-induced fantasies, the subway erections, the casting couches, the ogling bosses, the lecherous uncles, the pinches, the tweaks, the grabs, the unwanted kisses, the pinning against walls, the reminders that they are stronger (and they could do it, even if they didn't), the ones-we-thought-were-friends who did not "stop," the monsters who came out of nowhere to take what they wanted, the ones who laughed at our helplessness as they held us down, the ones who took turns with our bodies, and the ones who killed us, or left us for dead.
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