Sentence examples for fleeting occasions from inspiring English sources

Sunderland's lone striker was dangerous on the fleeting occasions when he received the ball to feet.

Politics is often defined as the art of the possible; it is also an art of improvisation, since the fleeting occasions must be grasped when they appear, and risks must be taken without a full array of scientific data.

Only on a couple of fleeting occasions did the Saints seriously threaten to cross the home line and, on another day, Wasps would have collected more than a brace of well-taken tries from their alert full-back, Rob Miller, and a late dart by the replacement scrum-half, Jamie Stevenson.

Six o'clock approached, and MacDermid began to worry that his guests might turn up fashionably late, thereby missing his fleeting occasion.

It's a rare and fleeting occasion that the global community turns its collective attention to this important topic, even if context may be sidelined for headlines.

And despite the advances in the art of healing in the last two and a half millennia, Hippocrates's famous first aphorism remains as true as it ever was: "Life is short, and the Art is long; the occasion fleeting; experience delusive; judgment difficult".

The upshot is a fairly pathetic picture of a life mired in the passions and pursuing and fleeing the changeable and fleeting objects that occasion them: "We are driven about in many ways by external causes, and … like waves on the sea, driven by contrary winds, we toss about, not knowing our outcome and fate" (IIIp59s).

So instead I turn my fleeting obsessions into momentous occasions, seemingly earth-shattering, and it gives my life a point at least for a while.

Despite the inclusion of chapter headings listing the highway networks over which McMurtry chose to drive before writing "Roads," the book is not an aid to travel but an occasion for fleeting, from-the-hip commentary on anything along the way that comes to his eye or mind.

Reading her Pepys as she must have done to write this novel (a fact signalled by the diarist's fleeting, unnamed appearance on two occasions), Tremain will have extracted not only the particularities (food, fashion, street signs) but also the writer's awareness of his unprecedented times.

But the emotions are as fleeting as the objects that occasion them, and thus the superstitions grounded in those emotions subject to fluctuations.