Sentence examples for first flicker of from inspiring English sources

It was here that I had my first flicker of self-doubt, where I thought that maybe my head was meant to be covered after all.

"Anderson's announcement is similar to the first flicker of an electric light bulb," said Doug Morris, the chief executive of the Universal Music Group.

But everywhere, the first flicker of a traffic light, hum of an air conditioner or burble of an aquarium filter was cause for celebration.

There is the first flicker of hope that peace may be restored to South Sudan: it began with an acceptance of responsibility.

"I was just eight, it was my first-ever match," said Mark Thomas, from Bradford, who saw the first flicker of flame as a discarded match slipped between floorboards and set fire to a polystyrene cup.

There's a wonderful moment when he tunes in the television for the elders, who flinch at the first flicker of what looks like MTV, one frame of which is enough to affront a dozen strictures of the Muslim faith.

After which, we sense the first flickers of success.

Degas, meanwhile, seems to have zeroed in on Miss La La from the first flickers of the painting in his imagination.

Some say it is so common that they can recognize a mix-up has occurred from just the first flickers of dismay flashing across a passenger's face.

This summer, the Russian people will commemorate (at least in some muted, rueful form) the tenth anniversary of the collapse of the "August coup," which led to the first flickers of democratic nationhood in their thousand-year history.

In "Low Life" his quarry was the under­world of 19th- and early-20th-century New York, the freak shows and shooting galleries and Bowery museums, and those first flickers of cinema, the nickelodeons.