Translation for "heart-stopping" to spanish
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The heart-stopping shriek bolted raw above the river. Startled birds shot up screeching from its banks.
—Su alarido desgarrador se extendió sobre el río, de cuyas orillas levantaron el vuelo pájaros espantados—.
After all, many of the gods we worshiped were, to one degree or another, judgmental and demanding and capable of heart-stopping cruelty.
Al fin y al cabo, muchos de los dioses a quienes venerábamos eran, en mayor o menor grado, críticos, exigentes y capaces de crueldades desgarradoras.
Suddenly a loud explosion shook the air. The whole staircase trembled violently, followed by a heart-stopping rip, as if a giant sheet of paper had been torn in two.
De repente una sonora explosión sacudió la atmósfera y toda la escalera retembló con violencia, seguida de un crujido desgarrador, como si un gigantesco folio se rasgase en dos pedazos.
If it was possible for a human being to evoke a voice, a sound, then for Naga, Tilo evoked Billie Holiday’s voice – she had that same quality of limbering, heart-stopping, fucked-up unexpectedness to her.
Si resultara posible para un ser humano evocar una voz, un sonido, para Naga la voz de Tilo evocaba la de Billie Holiday. Poseía esa misma cualidad infartante, ágil y confusa de lo inesperado.
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