Sentence examples for briefly stricken from inspiring English sources

"Because I'm crazy!" screamed the caller, briefly stricken with lucidity.

After the war, McNamara contemplated a return to Harvard, but when he and his wife were briefly stricken with bouts of polio, he accepted a better-paying offer at Ford Motor Co. McNamara joined a coterie of young aides hired by Chairman Henry Ford II to shake up the firm with statistical analysis, the rigorous use of figures to measure trends and improve systems.

Mr. Baali was briefly struck speechless, then continued his harangue.

When he first appeared before the Senate, he was so nervous he was briefly struck dumb.

When capital punishment was briefly struck down, in 1972, Justice Potter Stewart said the death penalty was arbitrary, like being struck by lightning.

Under Catherine II (1762 96) copper rubles of great size were briefly struck, and substantial five-kopeck pieces were in common production; Russian copper was also produced in Georgia.

We see flashes of familiar danse d'école, with attitudes and arabesques briefly struck, and flickers of formal batterie, but these have a vestigial, half-remembered air, and quickly morph into more exotic forms.

Wigan did briefly strike back when Brett Finch fed Farrell, who sneaked in for Wigan's second try between Patrick's two efforts, Pat Richards adding his second conversion.

So Gunnery Sgt. Jack Burns Fred Dryerr), assigned to the fictitious Arab nation of Jemal, sits still for the American-hating antics of local terrorists only briefly before striking out on his own.

"Everyone who met my mother, no matter how briefly, was struck by her worldly character matched with an otherworldly artistic aura," Mr. Wainwright said of the tribute in an e-mail.

The pilots struck briefly in 1997 before being ordered back to work by President Bill Clinton.