These causal conditions flare up in the brain moment by moment, serving as triggers for moments of consciousness, but happening so quickly that the mind is barely aware of them.
As it lifts and pivots through the action its purpose is as ambiguous as the plot, serving one moment as a conventional window, the next as the surface of a lake.
Serving up moments I could feel.
"So what I've been able to do is ask myself how I serve the moment, but hopefully in language that has value and resonance when the moment has passed".
"What we were there for," he said, "was to really serve the moment".
At one point, as Mirnyi prepared to loft the ball for his serve (a moment when even the most obstreperous crowd ordinarily goes silent), a fan elected to counsel Baghdatis on how to counter Mryni's net game.
Definitions are handles that serve a moment but always get redefined.
The answer may have to do with the nature of emancipation itself, which unfolded in fits and starts, with each act of liberation serving as a moment of localized jubilee.
His duty, however, was to spend every moment serving his country in exactly the way he had been told.That civic imperative was what mattered, he said later; nothing personal or individual.
But in a crucial moment, serving to pull her doubles partner into a crucial third set, Hingis double-faulted twice to lose the two final points of the match, resulting in a 6-3, 7-5 loss.
However, Moscow said they were not serving "at the moment they were detained".
