Before he fell, his right eye went blank — flashing life, death, pain, something.
But unless they win eight more games, the Yankees of 2012 will be defined by two portraits of pain, flashing neon reminders of the subtler message the game tells its fans every year.
Down the final straightaway with both men's teeth flashing through the pain: down to the final 10 meters, and then Gebrselassie lunged past Tergat at the tape in a finish that bore a much greater resemblance to the split-second conclusion of a 100-meter race than to the end of a 10,000 meters.
Exemestane appears to have less frightening side effects — for example, hot flashes, joint pain, and loss of bone density.
The main side effects are hot flashes, muscle pain, and an increased risk of blood clots in the leg (deep-vein thrombosis).
The French writer Alphonse Daudet (1840-97) spenthehe last 15 years of his life in violent spasms and blinding flashes of pain ultimately resulting from syphilis.
The dead glaze of his eyes, disturbed only by flashes of pain, conveys the horror of insanity just as graphically as his unhinged body language.
"I swore I would not go out like a coward, merely diving the plane into the ocean for one bright flash of pain, and then nothing" he said in his book, which was written with Martin Caidin and Fred Saito.
Many were for multiple family members who had drowned together, like the mother and child whose deaths caused a flash of pain and exhaustion to pass over the face of the Rev. Valery Chernenko, from the nearby town of Ilsky.
