Sentence examples for fleeting recognition from inspiring English sources

Cartier-Bresson famously spoke of the photographer's "decisive moment" — the fleeting recognition that something significant is passing before the lens.

The novel culminates in his fleeting recognition that the Queen and Irene were "a double-sided incarnation of Something Else," an excuse to suffer guilt and hopeless yearning, rather than the cause of either feeling.

She is present in the room — she looks me in the eye — but is capable of only fleeting recognition; she knows only that I am someone she should recognize.

The attacks on the World Trade Center and our subsequent military involvement in Central Asia shocked Americans into a fleeting recognition of how dependent we actually are on the news media to keep us informed about complex global issues.

The only real voice of dissent, given fleeting recognition, was that of snooker's world No12, Mark Allen, who says that since Hearn took over the sport in 2009 not all players are happy with his changes, some feeling they are on a kind of treadmill, required to adhere to an overly rigorous tournament schedule.

If it is "common knowledge" that rugby is the father of American football, as some claim, in the US the game can nonetheless seem more like an eager but overlooked child, jumping up and down at the back of the schoolroom, eager for rare and fleeting recognition.

This loss has received only faint and fleeting official recognition.

The glare of the cameras has been replaced with fleeting moments of recognition in an Upper East Side neighborhood filled with high-profile people.

There may be fleeting moments of self-recognition – the inward flinch at the thought of wearing heels, the choice of bodyboarding over learning to kite surf, or looking at the snow and instead of thinking about sledging, wondering about falling.

But, sadly, that recognition was only fleeting and when I was discharged six weeks later, arriving home was like crash landing into someone else's life.

Honour and recognition are but fleeting gifts.