He died within an instant, leaving a wife and twin children.
And while smooth sailing in the operating room is an exhilarating, ego-boosting rush, things can go wrong in an instant, leaving the surgeon "grasping blindly into a rising pool of blood".
Reviewing a performance of Kenneth MacMillan's "Romeo and Juliet," with Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn in the principal roles, he wrote, "it is the image of Dame Margot and Mr. Nureyev that remains, like the blood-red shape of an instant left on a sun-lit retina when the eyes are closed".
It was over in an instant, leaving the children to run up and down the street pretending they were carrying a torch of their own.
It lights only a portion of the scene, an isolated instant, leaving the rest in shadow.
Consider for instance a particular doctrine, such as the imminent return of Jesus in the clouds meeting those who have been saved in the sky, all of whom are changed in an instant, leaving behind the rest of the world to suffer through tribulation followed by an anti-Christ figure who leads the world for seven years, culminating in the last judgment.
After each hair wash you must use an instant leave-in hair repair product that contains proteins.
So if you have agreed to going out with him, don't cancel at the last instant, leaving him in the lurch.
Also due to the randomness in friction, the time instants leaving the slip stage, or entering the stick stage, become random.
The instant I leave the 500th and final roundabout, I'm in another world - a lane overhung with trees and enfolded by sandstone.
