Sentence examples for instant of recognition from inspiring English sources

Herek has developed a pleasing way with actors; he brings out the private moment, the instant of recognition.

But as you come near, he sees you right back and in that brilliant instant of recognition, the guard drops, and there he is, the he of him: the laugh, the posture, the distinguishing quirk.

At that instant of recognition, you'll be reminded that you have no interest in being that way and you can let it go quickly without becoming distressed.

Most people and this is when I was living in Ohio or Pennsylvania would say, "What are you talking about?" And now, there's this instant flash of recognition.

The mother's flash of recognition was instant.

But the images that will most likely draw instant sighs of recognition will be those that define suburbia.

There is also an eerie, instant shock of recognition for anyone who has seen films or photographs of the real Weill (1900-50) and Lenya (1898-1981).

Although Voldemort, who is trying to get his clammy hands on a powerful new weapon in this volume, can seem a bit cardboardy at times, like a silent-movie villain, Ms. Rowling has made Harry such a flesh-and-blood character that the reader has an instant sense of recognition.

What Kemp describes as "one of the supreme moments in Tippett's music" occurs towards the end of the Part, as the soprano's aria melts into the spiritual "Steal away": "a [transition] so poignant as to set off that instant shock of recognition that floods the eyes with emotion... although the soprano continues to grieve in a floating melisma, the spiritual comes as a relief as well as a release".

But they are clues to the uncanny impulse – the crashing instant of self-recognition – doppelganger-Earth films are compelled towards.

This led The Guardian's Laura Barton to proclaim that the image "acquired the kind of instant recognition of Jim Fitzpatrick's Che Guevara poster, and is surely set to grace T-shirts, coffee mugs and the walls of student bedrooms in the years to come".