The phrase "a fleeting memory of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a memory that is brief, transient, or not fully formed, often evoking a sense of nostalgia or loss.
Example: "As she walked through the old neighborhood, she was struck by a fleeting memory of her childhood summers spent playing with friends."
Alternatives: "a passing recollection of" or "a momentary remembrance of".
"I had a fleeting memory of being thrown clean out of the stern, seeing Bill going under me, then the boat coming down," Dye remembered.
He can be provoked to verse an old Wessex legend or the latest bulletins from the Boer War, a fleeting memory of an old romance or the sinking of the Titanic.
Here is the quote: …and then I do suddenly get a picture of that time, a fleeting memory of a morning facing a New York window with a bowl clenched between my naked knees, and I say, just to be saying something, "Your hair is even redder than I remember," which makes her burst out laughing, happy that I haven't abandoned the game.
I return the National Geographic to the glass table and then I do suddenly get a picture of that time, a fleeting memory of a morning facing a New York window with a bowl clenched between my naked knees, and I say, just to be saying something, "Your hair is even redder than I remember," which makes her burst out laughing, happy that I haven't abandoned the game.
Pariser has only a fleeting memory of her from the 1940s; he and his parents and sister hid in her barn for two weeks, and she would sneak their food to them when she went to feed the pigs.
But the influences are seldom overt, never caricatured; a fleeting memory of India in the angle of hand or foot, perhaps, Spain in the movement of an arm, modern America in the cool complexity of some of the choreography and more primitive connections in sometimes barbarically powerful undercurrents of pagan ritual.
As mentioned above, the LIDA model is based on the global workspace theory of consciousness [25], which suggests the existence of a fleeting memory capacity that enables access between brain functions that are otherwise separate.
In the fast movements and the Menuetto, the ensemble was trim, tight and energetic; the balance problems of the Adagio seemed a fleeting memory.
"The nimble, flexible, core-mission-oriented enterprise the D.O. once was, is becoming just a fleeting memory," the report said, referring to the Directorate of Operations.
Cyber attacks against a host of American companies, Google shutting down in China, China tightening monetary policy read the headlines and one might think global trade is imperiled and the rebound of the past year becomes a fleeting memory.
Two days later, the Nets stumbled into a nine-game losing streak, their longest of the season, and.500 became a fleeting memory.
