Sentence examples for A fleeting pause from inspiring English sources
Flashes of Henry Mancini's easy listening classic Moon River for example, or a fleeting pause for the heroine – a modern witch – to smile in slow motion to camera.
The only sound in the room was the voice of Mr. Broadbent announcing the bids, which, after another fleeting pause, at sixty-eight thousand pounds, spiralled upward without hesitation through the seventies and eighties.
It is the way you might expect someone to play, for example, who in notes for Saint-Saëns's Second Cello Concerto can pause to savor a fleeting modulation from D to E flat "of which the Beatles would have been proud," then go on to remark that Saint-Saëns and John Lennon shared the same birth date.
A fleeting sensation of omnipotence?
For Damon, it was a fleeting keepsake.
Everyone has a fleeting moment of stardom.
It was a fleeting assurance.
But that was a fleeting notion.
Opportunity can be a fleeting thing.
She gave a fleeting smile.
