That heightened sense of awareness, the blinding flash of being shocked out of your logical mind — that's magic for me.
"I wonder if I'll still be here when you are," she adds with a flash of anxiety, shocking us with the revelation that, so far from being a wise grandmother calmly accepting her own mortality, she is as frightened and unprepared as anyone.
He mainly manages to keep his mouth shut throughout chewing, though every now and then his tongue will flick the mush around the inside of his gob, a flash of mulchy colour will shock you into epilepsy.
I remember flashing my friend a look of shock as he revealed that this brutal neurological disease could strike anyone of any age or background.
As we took in last week's fiery video from Cairo — mesmerizing and yet populated by mostly anonymous extras we don't understand and don't know — it was hard not to flash back to those glory days of "Shock and Awe".
In the mid-1990s, for example, researchers found that a particular receptor for the neurotransmitter glutamate--the so-called NMDA receptor--plays a critical role both in rats' ability to learn that a flash of light signals an impending electrical shock and in their ability to forget their fear of the light after the researchers stop pairing flash with zap.
Suddenly, the dancers — a flash mob — swelled in number, as did the stream of recognizable faces, both friends and relatives, passing by Ms. Leclaire, whose bemused look turned to one of shock.
These are signs of shock.
Keyser mines unexpected riches from her grisaille palette: in "Tänzerin," a shock of white spray paint sparks like a flash of light in the depths of a cave.
