Sentence examples for a brief flare from inspiring English sources

When he answered ("Yep"), a brief flare of irritation entered his voice: Are you kidding me?

Raise Up Off Me by Hampton Hawes and Don Asher (1974) Hampton Hawes was a jazz pianist who enjoyed a brief flare of popularity in the mid-1950s: hard-swinging, technically scintillating, with a deep feeling for the blues.

They also thought that in 2003 the galaxy could have emitted a brief flare as it tore apart a star and swallowed it up, but other observations showed the quasar was still bright for years after 2003.

In 1969, a brief flare in the luminosity of Wolf 359 was observed, linking it to the class of variable stars known as flare stars.

But there has been no fighting since a brief flare-up in 1997.

Far from a brief flare-up, the political battle over crime, punishment and ethnicity has only intensified since.

There was a brief flare-up recently between the F.B.I. and the Secret Service, when each wanted to patrol the skies over the convention with their surveillance aircraft, packed with infrared cameras and other electronics.

When she had a brief flare-up of her illness right before Super Tuesday, a crucial day of nominating contests, Mrs. Romney kept the health scare a secret and forced herself to continue campaigning.

A brief flare-up before one game apart, he has coped with the disappointing results stoically and positively, emphasising that the team has been playing well, then urging everybody connected with the club to stick together.

The intelligent design movement has rekindled tensions between evolution and its critics that have, besides a brief flare-up in the 1970s, been absent from the American courts since the infamous Scopes trial of 1925.

But it ends on a depressing note: despite the brief flare of outrage, Mr Davies concludes, little has really changed, with an unaccountable and arrogant press holding the whip hand over a cowed and compliant government.The second book, by Mr Mulcaire, is not quite so much fun.