Sentence examples for first flash of something from inspiring English sources

Then, the first flash of something deeper, as he began to wax about the land itself, and what it meant to Americans, in a language that we might call environmental: "A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws.

Clearly, something got lost in the marble translation of Bernini's first flash of inspiration.

Thomas offered the first flash of speed.

His goal followed the first flash of United slickness.

The first flash of blue is Maeve Cunningham, the fan.

I thought I saw a flash of something under there, some contraption attached to his face.

But there were flashes of something going on, most noticeably in the third movement of the "Italian" Symphony, where individual ideas in phrasing came gushing in swiftly moving currents.

But there are flashes of something lovely.

Occasionally, there were flashes of something else between us.

But there are flashes of something else beneath.

A 19th-century account described shooting wary swimming cormorants with flintlock weapons as "something of a challenge" because "the first flash used to send the cormorant down, so quick was his eye".