Sentence examples for fleetingly mentioned from inspiring English sources

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An illicit romance between Leakey and Fossey, for example, is fleetingly mentioned and then pushed aside.

Others complain that the bloodshed of the insurgency is only fleetingly mentioned.

Eventually, the official omerta ended, and Mr. Chen's case has now been obliquely and fleetingly mentioned in the state media.

The murder of Dr. George R. Tiller, the director of a Wichita abortion clinic, in 2009 is only fleetingly mentioned.

Bowen, headteacher at Horizon community college, said the changes had been "fleetingly" mentioned at the end of a meeting when most school headteachers were not there.

Ilana's late father, for example, despite his importance to her, is only fleetingly mentioned, while her own appearance and clothing are sketched with a detail that sometimes puzzles.

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A generally approving inspection of Edinburgh concentrates on the stony magnificence of the wealthy city centre, and only fleetingly mentions the fact that most of the poor live on distant council estates.

Minutes after Beyoncé released "Lemonade," an album in which she touches on marital infidelity, fans in the Beyhive declared it a very bad evening for two people: her husband, Jay Z; and the mystery woman the singer fleetingly mentions as a mistress.

Of course there's no law of memoirs that requires autobiographers to have arrived at a state of benign forgiveness before they set finger to keyboard, but what's astonishing is that Figes omits, except fleetingly, to mention another, surely crucial, story in this narrative: that her mother lost both her parents in the Holocaust.

London's naturalist contemporaries Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser and Stephen Crane are mentioned fleetingly, as is the history of American naturalism in general.

Jacob Rees-Mogg and a former school friend who has managed the MP's multimillion-pound investments are mentioned fleetingly in the Paradise Papers leak.

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