Sometimes, for me, it feels like an instant cold sweat, like the back end of a bad hot flash, if memory serves.
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Call it a combination of blood, sweat and brains, but Hendrix was less an instant sensation than a student who, through intensive training and innate talent, transcended his many teachers.
You feel their weight along with the heat of the day, the stale air-conditioned chill in the room, the smell of smoke and beer and sweat in the nightclub, the car-seat vinyl, the instant's lassitude.
I clutched my journal tighter in my sweat drenched palms and prayed my clumsiness wouldn't emerge that instant, causing me to trip on my two left feet.
A soldier caught in an ambush — looking for safety while returning fire, with ears ringing and skin pouring sweat — can feel utterly alone, trapped in a box of crisscrossing lead and terrifying sound, with death an instant away.
She: "Instant, very instant".
