Sentence examples for fleeting reminder from inspiring English sources

The floor was covered with broken concrete, empty cigarette packages and a dusty brown teddy bear, a fleeting reminder that the fighting position had once been someone's home.

The fleeting reminder of the debate at home was followed by a blunt discussion of the larger aims of the American involvement here.

Sometimes we get a fleeting reminder of deeper realities: Obama holds a microphone with one hand and plumbs his pocket with the other, speaking to troops stationed at Camp Victory, in Baghdad.

China urged the United States to get its work in Afghanistan done fast and accurately -- a fleeting reminder of the bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade during the war over Kosovo in 1999.

His walk-on was a silent little joke, flying right over the heads of the oblivious characters in the film to land smartly in the audience's lap, a fleeting reminder that what they were watching was a fictional world concocted by the portly fellow who had just stepped out from behind the camera.

The performance as a whole was excellent, with just fleeting reminders of how difficult it is to play antique brass instruments.

Only fleeting reminders exist in Mumbai today of its emergence from the sea – a preponderance of causeways; landlocked places with waterside names such as "creek" and "foot wash".

Often at this time, we enjoy a heady dose of Indian summer, but even these sweet moments are tinged with melancholy, serving as sweet yet fleeting reminders of what we're about to lose.

These are fleeting moments, a reminder like an aching joint that flares up now and then, but they bring me a deep sense of sadness, one tinged with regret.

There are fleeting — even taunting — reminders of how the war began in the occasional references to the elusive Osama bin Laden.

We need some reminder, however fleeting, that there was a time when the natural order prevailed.