Each writer bounces between the past and the present, giving flashes of characters in their auspicious salad days, then zooming in on their subsequent woes.
In the context of a deficit recovered against a team on the fringe of the Champions League places, and grasping for positives, it did at least offer flashes of the character the home support deemed to have been so absent of late.
These people have displayed -- in the quickest flash -- a strength of character and compassion that you will admire for the rest of your life.
You keep hoping for respite from the relentless claustrophobia of its narrator's perspective — some flash of humor, some sympathetic character, some original insight.
She's in Hell — which is something that Eleanor realizes, in a flash of insight, as the characters bicker, having been forced as a group to choose two of them to be banished to the Bad Place.
This brief but intense flash of inhabiting the father's character generated the rest of the family.
There are flashes of sweetness, strong character arcs and, in the new series, actual chariot races.
Her lower range seemed inadequate and, even higher up, there were only occasional flashes of the expressive character needed to match Ono's faithful reproduction of Zemlinsky's exotic hues.
And a jazzy walk, an interesting tremor, the occasional lordly flash of temper or mood swing might in their milieu mark out a man of character.
An examination of the titles also illuminates the delicate but obscure art of telegraphing an opera's libretto in brief flashes of two 38-character lines (an early form of tweeting, perhaps) without distracting the viewer from what is on the stage or straying too far from the meaning of the text.
