Sentence examples for flash of panic from inspiring English sources

A flash of panic crossed Dave's face.

Julianne Moore gives another tight-violin-string portrayal of a terrified soul with a flash of panic behind the eyes.

Last winter, vacationing in the Florida Keys, she had a "flash of panic" at the e-mail messages piling up.

Simon chuckled and waved his hands about, poured drinks and proposed toasts - but I caught the flash of panic in his eyes.

Tamir jumped down, landing with a thud he obviously hadn't anticipated, because his eyes met Jacob's with a flash of panic.

Partly for the flash of panic on Pete's face (had she drunk too much of the Draper Kool Aid?) but also because it was true.

Nightmares are different from night terrors, which typically occur in the first, slow-wave stage of sleep, and which tend to be plotless flashes of panic.

He can afford to rumple and fatten his character, turning Vince into a slob and a patsy, driving the picture beyond the regulation hipness of "Reservoir Dogs" into a shabbier territory, where a man is known not just by his suit or his ruthlessness but by his hits of bliss and his flashes of panic, the big mistakes he can make as he tries to correct the little ones.

My yoga practitioner friend would often advice that taking few deep breaths during flashes of panic, confusion, anger or extreme pain can help us tide over the initial onslaught and bring things into perspective.

They almost make existence seem bearable, and when, at 12 noon, the "Mission: Impossible" graphics fade out for the last time and the show doesn't restart, I have a flash of fresh panic.

The pre-election leaders' debate is the same absurdist drama of unmeaning, an immobile ballet of wretchedness in which the three (or two, or seven) politicians have an inert, waxy hopeless quality, with a flash of existential panic in the eyes.