Sentence examples for in a flicker from inspiring English sources

The Flash was gone in a flicker, but helped to take down Jai Courtney's Captain Boomerang.

In a flicker of resistance, the flighty Maciek (Zbigniew Cybulski), together with a more sober colleague, is tasked with killing a local Communist official.

"Six months of scandal that would have brought down many governments had almost no impact on McGreevey, and now in a flicker he's gone".

Others speak of once or twice seeing Annan's eyes narrow in a flicker of annoyance, but these are rare sightings, and tend to be mentioned with proprietary pride, as evidence of the speaker's inside position.

He looked nervous and sweaty, his gray-streaked hair falling in slats across his forehead, his shirt buttons at war with his paunch, and in a flicker of recognition I thought I detected the frantic, pleading look of a drowning man.

In any case, if their names are in fact heard (and I've seen the movie twice), it's in a flicker of passing that could easily go unnoticed, and I confess to surprise, in reading reviews, that other critics have mentioned them.

The results dazzle; in a flickering, almost strobelike effect, images seem to rise to the surface like memories through a scrim — or through the static of a television set.

THE scene: Saturday night in a flickering party tent beneath the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin.

This pud would make the most impressive entrance in a flickering lake of brandy.

A television set is on, bathing both the room and the boy in a flickering glow.

And the whole scene seems to occur in a flickering shadow world beyond conscious thought.