Sentence examples for brief flicker of activity from inspiring English sources

There was a brief flicker of activity at the end of the last decade, when he began performing live again, appearing for a few songs during shows by bands featuring various permutations of the old Family Stone lineup, with decidedly mixed results.

There was a brief flicker of relief when Theresa May was crowned by her party.

Many people caught in the middle of the world's biggest power outage experienced it as a brief flicker of the lights.

Aside from the brief flicker of life at the end of the second quarter neither Golden State nor their best player were in this game.

"Heartless" was effective, but was merely a brief flicker of flair after several weeks of airbrushing the life out of songs by Michael Jackson, the Beatles and others.

However, the brief flicker of hope for Cavan was totally extinguished in the 53rd minute as Caolan Rafferty netted from close range after latching on to a mishit shot from Clarke.

But musically "Lifted Off the Ground" is limp, a light, middling, folk-influenced country album with only brief flickers of attitude.

These brief flickers of an idealism that ran counter to an otherwise totalitarian age — crushed between the rock of Communism and the hard place of fascism — would continue to inspire Kohr's writing and thinking.

As prime minister of Poland's wartime government-in-exile, and leader of the Peasant Party in the country's brief flickering of democracy after the war, Mikolajczyk was an anti-communist icon.

"There is no freedom, no justice and no democracy," complains one man.Bahrain, where a Sunni monarchy has long ruled over a Shia majority, saw a brief flickering of Arab spring protests in February 2011.

It was the briefest flicker of doubt.