Sentence examples for flash of thought from inspiring English sources

Laughter at once acknowledges and expresses (or performs, since it is "all that remains physical in the flash of thought") the idea that the absurdity of the human condition is not relative - the product, sometimes comic, sometimes tragic, of social and cultural difference - but absolute.

They included a 508-page excursus called "Fragments and Flashes of Thought".

Flashes of this thought appeared in the nineteenth century and much earlier, but as a guiding principle it really dates from after World War Two.

The moment when you realise you're going to dry occurs without warning and, when it does, the following train of thought flashes through your mind: "What the hell is the next word?

Life in the crosshairs.* Almost every day, for as long as I can remember, I have had a flash of some self-annihilating thought.

In his memoir, Fatheralong, Wideman describes seeing a benign elderly white professor precariously balanced at the top of a book ladder; he has a flash of hatred at the thought that his own intelligent father (the professor's age) has been denied such a privileged life, and wishes the blameless professor would fall from the ladder and break his neck.

McCullum has built a career on the former school of thought, all flashing drives through cover and brutal bunts down the ground.

But that's exactly what hundreds of people attending the launch of Bill Gates' new book, Business @ the Speed of Thought, saw flashing on a huge video screen inside the Sheraton Hotel and Towers in New York City this morning.

The window swinging open spread a flash George Boole's book on the laws of thought appeared in.

Dean's drawings are, I think, about time: geological time, the flash of a life, a passing thought.

Ten years go by in a flash but thoughts of you come often and are bound in love.