Sentence examples for in a flash of insight from inspiring English sources

In a flash of insight, the BBC snapped it up before it was hot.

She's in Hell — which is something that Eleanor realizes, in a flash of insight, as the characters bicker, having been forced as a group to choose two of them to be banished to the Bad Place.

Beneath the surface message ("choose"), the hidden message ("is lame") was meant for her: she would hear it and then, in a flash of insight, understand why the world rocked when she walked, why the hems of her dresses were cut on the diagonal, and why the lord chamberlain rushed to give her his arm each time she had to descend a staircase.

He closed his eyes and waited and was not at peace at all but instead felt the beginnings of a terrible dread welling up inside him, and if that dread kept growing at the current rate, he realized in a flash of insight, there was a name for the place he would be then, and it was Hell.

When I talked with my mom during our next weekly phone call, I was ready for her query, "Did you get your flu shots?" But I wasn't prepared to suddenly recognize her voice, in a flash of insight, as that of my inner worrier.

In a flash of insight, Peter Quail and colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley, realized that plants could help.

In this case, what's interesting is that the answer (which is "apple") seems to appear in consciousness as a flash of insight.

Several years ago, Andy Choo of the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute in Melbourne, Australia, had a flash of insight about how to make mini-chromosomes more manageable.

Through studying verbal cues, body language and incremental adjustments during team innovation efforts, Mr. Sawyer shows that what we experience as a flash of insight has actually percolated in social interaction for quite some time.

Sitting on his bed in a Ramada Inn, watching golf on TV, he had a flash of insight: why not start a P.G.A. of bass fishing!

You may come to a point in a play where you're suddenly overcome by a flash of insight, an "epiphany," a Damascus experience that affects you deeply or your view of the world.