Sentence examples for flash of joy from inspiring English sources

But I remember that on that day there was also a flash of joy inside me that made me ashamed.

So one would imagine that Clarke felt a brief flash of joy when he got a call from a journalist at his country home in Virginia to tell him Bin Laden had been killed in his Pakistani hideaway.

It's a reflex that makes her reach out for the song; as she chokes out a few bars, somehow through the cracks in her voice seeps a brief flash of joy.

It's a voice that forced you to listen lest you miss a joke, a gibe or a flash of joy.

The purest flashes of joy from my 20s had nothing to do with sex or drugs.

It's funny, sharp, unsettling, with flashes of joy – a perfect book to take travelling.

The unrelenting grimness matches the opera's darkest moods but misses its flashes of joy — and hence its complexity.

Over the course of six years, from one camp to the next and with changing fellow prisoners, there were occasional flashes of joy.

For the women, motherhood brings flashes of joy and fulfilment, but all too often also comes with difficult pregnancies and births, followed by overwhelming anxiety over how to feed their children, keep them healthy and ensure them a future.

But just like becoming a parent, being an author can also feel like a wonderful achievement, and bring you a sense of purpose and achievement with flashes of joy and pride along the way.

She talks about the shedding of skin when acting and I think she shares with only a handful of her peers - Juliet Stevenson, Juliette Binoche and Meryl Streep among them - the hotline to the heart, the glimpse of soul, tiny flashes of joy and pain, and is apparently incapable of a lie.