"momentary escape" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe a brief break or respite from reality or a particular situation. Here is an example: "After a long day at work, Sarah found a momentary escape in her evening yoga practice, letting go of all her stress and worries for a short while."
As the soldiers skydive into battle, Kay liberates them into a dreamy balletic quintet, a momentary escape from the adrenaline-spiked fighting that follows.
She's not in love and she's not yet even in desire; she's in despair and seeking a momentary escape from it — and from her life as she knew it — by way of sex.
The second, "Here It Comes", from 2000's debut Lost Souls, is a celebration of momentary escape set against a backdrop that does work – beautiful old footage of northern soul dancers spinning across the Wigan Casino dancefloor.
As a momentary escape, she turned to self-harm.
It's a sanctuary — a momentary escape from the most unruly dancefloors.
Such departures from normalcy permit a momentary escape from realism and grant permission to indulge in the absurd.
The idea that you would do something just for the momentary blissful escape of it, for intensity, for strong feeling, is out of fashion.
"We have a momentary feeling of wanting to escape what's difficult or boring, so we jump out," he says — hence the appeal of e-mail and shopping Web sites.
One hears the rumble of these guilty pleasures, these tiny rebellions, these momentary flares of intensity or escape, and yet, in the end our vices are so minor and controlled.
Many admitted that early into sobriety, their greatest difficulty was the absence of alcohol to help "escape, hide or get momentary relief from painful situations, troubles and feelings," Ms. Fletcher wrote.
I believe that I take the same actions and expect different results because I'm wired to crave that instantaneous taste of escape, even if it's only momentary.
