Wonderful, inspirational action? (12)
I believe the answer is:
breathtaking
'wonderful' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are adjectives. Perhaps there's an association between them I don't understand?
'inspirational action?' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'action?' could be 'breath' (breath is a kind of action) and 'breath' is located in the answer.
The remaining letters 'taking' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for breathtaking that I've seen before include "Moving" , "Awe-inspiring" , "way of getting air into the lungs" , "if one is not one is dead?" , "Astounding" .)