Sentence examples for Brief instant from inspiring English sources

Mr Hongett has once spotted 'The Grenadier', if only for a brief instant.

Under the buzz, Zimmerman said the ovation left him overwhelmed for one brief instant.

For a brief instant, it seemed the M in MI5 stood for martyr.

He realises that for a brief instant he has "been real - been without first understanding how to try to be".

The yellow stream filled the whole basin for a brief instant before being sucked down the drain.

The drops of water formed a glittering arc in the air for a brief instant before dissipating.

To do that requires, for the brief instants when it is operating at full tilt (a total of three thousandths of a second a year), that it has a power of 500 trillion watts, about 3,000 times the average electricity consumption of the whole of planet Earth.The pellets at which this energy is directed are made of frozen hydrogen.

When a little girl glances in a mirror while her mother adjusts her bonnet, or when a nurse, balancing a long-handled saucepan against her arm, peels a hard-boiled egg, Chardin somehow makes these brief instants seem to stretch toward infinity, assuming sudden gravity.

Cartier-Bresson's well-known phrase "the decisive moment" refers to the quest of the photographer, stalking the streets and countryside like a hunting cat, as Cartier-Bresson has characterized himself when at work for those brief instants when chance arranges people and objects into the meaningful patterns of paintings.

Micro-moments are those brief instants where the consumer is deciding whether or not to take action on whatever service or product they require, acting immediately, whether by completing a purchase or engaging in another relevant way.

For the briefest instant, two images appear — one in the middle, one on the periphery.