Sentence examples for flash of intuition from inspiring English sources

Mr. Coleman had started with a hundred dollars and a flash of intuition.

In a flash of intuition, he had it: the new stars near Jupiter were actually moons, orbiting the planet as our moon orbits us.

But then TV's Homeland came along in 2011 with Claire Danes's brilliant, sympathetic performance as the fragile CIA agent whose psychological instability gives her a vital flash of intuition.

I glanced up at them out of wary eyes and in a flash of intuition I realized how much I hated them both, how much I wanted to jump to my feet like a cornered animal and punch them out, both of them.

You're never ahead of the agents (unless, perhaps, you happen to be an F.B.I. agent yourself) or behind them; you're right there with them, as they make the wrong assumptions or have a flash of intuition or work out what their first move should be.

Uranus means unexpected, surprise, unusual ideas, a flash of intuition.

Rather than presenting science as a linear progress, both auto- and hetero-biographical sources inform us about flashes of intuition, lucky breaks, missed opportunities and fatal turns (Beckwith 2002; Graham 2004).

SKIRTED 1970'S CHAISE A chaise with a textured-velvet cover looked faded, but Mr. Haly, with a flash of designer intuition, picked up on its potential for glamour.

Mr. Green's performance is on the edge, capturing the flashes of dazzling intuition and the terrible misjudgments that make Creegan sympathetic.

In Bruno Latour's comprehensive examination of laboratory life he reveals that scientific findings/facts are neither simple flashes of brilliant intuition nor purely logical deductions, but rather "social constructions" that emerge from the rather chaotic daily activities and interactions in the lab.

The reason is that success in cryptanalyzing a cipher is as often as not a product of flashes of inspiration, gamelike intuition, and, most important, recognition by the cryptanalyst of pattern or structure, at almost the subliminal level, in the cipher.