But then she noticed a small flash of colour: amid the layers of rubble, several pink peonies had sprouted up.
Near the rim, even in dim light, the eye moved toward one small flash of blue, a vanishing point on the horizon.
Mr. Tynan attributes much of his success to the encouragement of others, and though he says he is not a "religious thumper" to the "Man Above," he revealed in the interview that in at least a couple of instances he has helped himself with a small flash of blarney.
A small flash of tanguero spirit takes hold – the music, the flamboyance, the leg kicks, the ability to grab a stranger and dance for four minutes emitting the vibes that you're wildly in love, then turn on a heel and walk off.
A small flash of resentment arose in the back of my mind as it dawned on me that all the doctors senior to me had been given a free pass, "grandfathered in" for the rest of their professional lives, while the rest of us would have to agonize through this grueling process every 10 years.
When an alpha particle escapes a bismuth nucleus, it perturbs the crystal, releasing its energy in a tiny burst of heat and an even smaller flash of light.
The separate observations, one in Austria and one in Ireland, show a brief, small flash of light at the exact same time.
But that small flash of fame faded and he went on to face 12 subsequent years of continued relentless touring in relative obscurity.
The sound — especially in a striking cover of "Dreaming" by Blondie — was stripped-down but powerful: a small flash of inspiration before SXSW's bright lights turn on.
There were one or two small flashes of light across the bay.
