Sentence examples for brief flash of joy from inspiring English sources

So one would imagine that Clarke felt a brief flash of joy when he got a call from a journalist at his country home in Virginia to tell him Bin Laden had been killed in his Pakistani hideaway.

It's a reflex that makes her reach out for the song; as she chokes out a few bars, somehow through the cracks in her voice seeps a brief flash of joy.

(You can even sense the performers' brief flash of trepidation).

There is a brief flash of male nudity, however.

On "1st Night," a brief flash of vocals explode in a Zapp-esque digital spray.

After his brief flash of assertiveness, he seemed more a supplicant than ever.

Then she drew back her lips, revealing a brief flash of teeth.

With Dunkirk, the disastrous defense of the Low Countries ended in a brief flash of glory for the Allies.

But the reappearance of his prosperous-looking old friends gives him a brief flash of self-doubt.

The last to me were on the phone one afternoon during a brief flash of clear-headedness.

"The assumption that all major artists have one brief flash of innovation simply does not hold historically," he said.