Like Cinderella who let herself think just for a minute that she might have her night at the ball, I considered it fleetingly, but quickly the tape in my head played: I help others stand up for what they believe, I don't do it myself.
That Harris remains willing to consider, however fleetingly, the possibility of elves is a note, I think, that runs surprisingly in his favor.
Twelve weeks in, when her cancer was diagnosed, she fleetingly considered terminating the pregnancy.
During the cold war, very few editors even fleetingly considered resisting such a warning.
Jordana Sontag confirms that I am not the only successful professional woman who has fleetingly considered chaining herself to the White House fence to get attention (Michael Winerip, Dec. 6).
She reportedly urged her father to send James on a leave of absence, an idea he seems to have considered, if only fleetingly.
Stoppard fleetingly considered making him the equivalent of Miss Prism, the governess in "The Importance" — "but that," he wisely concluded, "would have killed the play because of the trivialization".
It is also understood that Freud had fleetingly considered a possible deal with Chime, in which WPP is the biggest shareholder, following founder Lord Bell's buyout of the Bell Pottinger-branded PR businesses.
It doesn't even have to be a direct, recent spoiler either; when I once made the mistake of obliquely referencing the colour of a character's face, three years after the episode's broadcast, the fury I drew from fans who hadn't got around to watching it was so pronounced that I fleetingly considered a legal change of identity.
Viewers are encouraged to grab one and consider themselves, however fleetingly.
Cowell is also fleetingly considering hiring a company to freeze and store his corpse for reanimation.
