Sentence examples for A fleeting question from inspiring English sources

But it was a fleeting question; "you don't try to second-guess the filmmaker," he says.

And now that I think of it, I do remember that at some point in the 1990s, I entertained a fleeting question about what kind of name Erskine was.

Yet it raises a fleeting question in the mind, the same question that returns in different ways throughout the piece: Aren't all these characters on the cusp of sexual experience?

But it has allowed us to reflexively indulge every passing interest, to expect answers to every fleeting question, to believe that if we search long enough, surf a little further, we can hit the dry land of knowing "everything that happens" and that such knowledge is both possible and desirable.

The fleeting question of whether Mr. Klock might somehow pay for his slip-up distracted from the larger question, just as impossible to answer, of whether something conclusive was to be read into the grilling by particular justices of particular lawyers on crucial points of law.

If any one of them be right, which is it, and how shall I know it?" These weren't fleeting questions, but deep questions.

It can be the most maddeningly presentational of arts: "Here I am! Watch me while I whip around like a crazed, grinning whirligig!" And then it can fold inward, offering windows into those ineffable, fleeting questions of existence.

The conclusion, that the high-risk returns logged in previous quarters had been nothing more than a fleeting benefit, raised questions about Mr. Mack's promotion of an aggressive trading strategy.

It was for only a fleeting moment, but the questions inspired deep thought and a reflective poise on Matthew Kaphan's part, his mind sweeping whole epochs of history.

She spent the few weeks before her surgery coming to terms with what had happened to her. "There was a fleeting moment when I was first diagnosed when I questioned, Why my leg?" Burla said.

When reporters after the event pressed him for his opinion on Mr. Perry's memory lapse, Romney aides rushed to quash the questions before their candidate offered only a fleeting response.