Sentence examples for brief phases from inspiring English sources

"It could be," he writes, "that modern democracy chronically risks falling into a cycle of periods of cultural stagnation interrupted by brief phases of undiscriminating assault on its vital traditions and institutions: dominated in both phases by the intellectually second-rate but socially and politically effective".

Further, and distinctively, the Overlap Model secures both Modest and Strong Continuity: not only is a (typical) stream of consciousness a gap-free stretch of experience, but each of its successive brief phases is experientially connected to its immediate neighbours.

But the Strong Continuity Thesis requires more: as well as an absence of gaps, all the successive brief phases which make up a single stream must experientially connected to their immediate neighbours – each must be experienced as flowing into its successor.

Twice in my life, I've gone through brief phases of recovery, during which I was able to try new foods.

The majority of CCM lesions remains clinically and biologically quiescent during the host's lifetime, except for brief phases of apparent angiogenic proliferative activity and hemorrhage [8].

For one brief phase, though, she got me.

Patrika seems to have tided over its brief phase of partisanship.

I tell Barber I went through a brief phase of believing that chia seeds would save me.

Much the same is true of Marx's thought, which treats as a universal given conditions limited to a brief phase of industrial development.

Yes! Except during the brief phase of totality, you must wear eclipse-watching glasses the entire time you are looking at the sun.

Sir Alan now sees "Man of the Moment" as part of a brief phase of "social" plays at the end of the 1980s.