Sentence examples for capture lightning from inspiring English sources

If the sessions, recorded for Columbia, didn't quite capture lightning in a bottle, they set the stage for "Respect" and the other sandblasting-soul tracks that followed.

"We were hoping to capture lightning in a bottle, and that it was a win-win for everyone," Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany said.

This was the place the Knicks leaned on Houston and Sprewell and Marcus Camby to capture lightning in a bottle, eliminate the Pacers and advance to the finals.

The letters to the society record the march of science from the earliest blood transfusions, and attempts to capture lightning, to the confirmation of Einstein's theory of relativity, the discovery of DNA and Stephen Hawking's first musings on black holes.

"Ideas are like lightning in a bottle, so if the company is small enough and didn't seem to capture lightning on their first try, it makes sense to try again," said Ben Horowitz, one of the founders of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.

We're not going to do better than that.'" There's a case to be made that if they had paid a little more attention to lyrical detail, AC/DC might be considered the equal of the Rolling Stones, who weren't averse to casual misogyny and tossed-off crap in their lyrics themselves, but also had the ability to capture lightning in a bottle when it really mattered.

"We had a cover that captured lightning in a bottle," said Richard Stengel, managing editor of Time.

His new employers must be well aware that they have captured lightning in a bottle and should not be surprised when it escapes.

"To be able to launch our Film Fund portfolio with Malick and his imaginative style of filmmaking is capturing lightning in a bottle.

It is clear from awestruck menu descriptions like "Chef Eric's famous vinaigrette dressing" and helpful notations like "award winning" to describe the lobster bisque that Mr. Kleefield believes he has captured lightning in a bottle.

I'll be curious to see the ratings for this event (I can't keep calling it a movie) but I have a feeling that Syfy might have captured lightning in a bottle twice.