Sentence examples for a flicker of interest from inspiring English sources

Here at last, this solemn, meandering travelogue finds some focus and ignites a flicker of interest.

Jeremy Corbyn's arrival in the chamber was greeted with barely a flicker of interest by even his frontbench.

Two albums in, and One Direction has barely shown a flicker of interest in doing something beyond riding this particular merry-go-round.

It's only the arrival of Mara Gale-azzi's up-for-anything groupie, Mary, that prompts a flicker of interest from him.

There was a flicker of interest in the problem a few years ago but it was snuffed out by the recession.

Arousing a flicker of interest among blasé Californians is probably a harder job than cooling the ardours of ex-communist Europe.

I was wrong – there was not a flicker of public interest.

She had hoped that they might one day reunite, but Mr. Carr never expressed a flicker of romantic interest.

Last week, with only a flicker of media interest, Lisa Duffy, Bill Etheridge, Elizabeth Jones, Phillip Broughton and Diane James formally asked 39,000 Ukip members to choose one of them as successor to Nigel Farage.

There is a fairly busy plot, and some of its developments — an unplanned pregnancy, a flicker of quasi-incestuous sexual interest, the acceptance of a poem by The New Yorker — clatter onto the screen like carelessly flung darts.

Yet the flicker of interest in California trousseau is a sign that the state's wine industry may evolve in unexpected directions, and that its past was more complex than is often thought.