The word "flashes" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to indicate a sudden and brief appearance or burst of light, sound, or activity. For example, "The stormy sky lit up with flashes of lightning."
Gazans are materially cut off from the world economy, just as in Cuba: everything patched up and odd flashes of modernity amid an economy trapped in the 1970s – the occasional new car alongside battered Volvos and even more battered donkeys.
Lucky stands back from his patient, flashes a big smile in my direction then laughs "Yes I suppose I am lucky, but maybe my patients are not".
Then he spent 15 minutes cowering between two of the three buses in which the students had been travelling, as the single shots turned into bursts of semi-automatic gunfire lighting up the night with their flashes.
Flashes and a cascade of brilliantly coloured lights.
It also flashes forward to his interrogation by a policeman following a curious burglary in the early 1950s, and back to a friendship with a fellow schoolboy.
The Paperboy and At Any Price showed flashes of a burgeoning sense of self-awareness in the former High School Musical poppet, but it's Nicholas Stoller's lewd, lairy and very funny comedy Bad Neighbours (Universal, 15) that heralds his fully formed arrival.
Persistent, detailed, passionate and sometimes politely menacing, the missives the Prince of Wales sends to Whitehall often coat strident demands for government action in self-deprecation and flashes of humour.
On closer inspection the greenery is arranged in ritualistic fashion, sticks of celery fanning out around the body of the woman like a halo, and as the camera pans down the expectant mother's body a splash of red flashes across the screen.
At Morebattle it was raining so hard, and there were occasional flashes of thunder and lightening, and brief outbreaks of painful hail that, very reluctantly, I decided not to continue over Wideopen Hill, but instead to take the B-road on towards Yetholm.
Unusually, we are allocated her return journey whereby on seeing us she shouts: "Hello again, what do you think of my new teeth?" and flashes a great beaming smile.
Still, it manages to show flashes of genuine emotion – a brief kiss that meant nothing to Karma, but meant everything to Amy; how tactile behaviour between friends must now be redefined; whether there is a need for labels if it is just one person on the receiving end of this strange new affection.
