Sentence examples for a sudden apprehension from inspiring English sources

What Joyce meant by an epiphany was, he said, just "a revelation of the whatness of a thing"—a sudden apprehension of the way the world unmediatedly is.

After I saw him off, I was seized by a sudden apprehension.

What Joyce meant by an epiphany was, he said, just "a revelation of the whatness of a thing" — a sudden apprehension of the way the world unmediatedly is.

This may suggest direct illumination or intuition, a sudden apprehension of meaning.

The reason given for this action was a sudden apprehension that the port of Pusan could not process the flow of water-borne supplies in a timely manner.

And "The Slave" by Roddy Doyle is a masterly monologue that uses the author's pitch-perfect ear for how people talk to limn a man's sudden apprehension of vulnerability and loss -- all brought on by his discovery of a dead rat on his kitchen floor.

Although the acrobat fell noiselessly into a safe tumble, dusted himself off and prepared for his next trick, the audience's sudden apprehension was an immediate and palpable presence.

But now that lawmakers could actually be making law, there's sudden apprehension in parts of the GOP conference.

Jason's sudden apprehension of his love, coupled with his apprehension of Jessica's danger, could break your heart by itself, let alone in the midst of all this madness.

Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of life.

He was having a sudden cardiac arrest.