The phrase "stroke of insight" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a sudden moment of understanding or clarity. For example, "After hours of research, Sam finally had a stroke of insight that allowed him to solve the problem."
The first third of the production, inspired by "My Stroke of Insight," a memoir by Jill Bolte Taylor — a neuroanatomist who suffered a stroke — is laden with text.
Many of these ideas stem from the neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor's book "My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey," documenting her own stroke.
"My perception of physical boundaries was no longer limited to where my skin met air," she has written in her memoir, "My Stroke of Insight," which was just published by Viking.
In my later research, however, I realized that if I'd had a bleeding stroke, the kind that almost killed Jill Bolte Taylor — the neuroscientist who wrote "My Stroke of Insight" — the aspirin might've killed me.
-- Jill Bolte Taylor in "My Stroke of Insight".
My book, My Stroke of Insight, has been translated into 30 languages.
This is precisely the kind of mental state that studies have linked to innovative ideas and strokes of insight.
I can learn how the world works without firsthand experience through the trial and error or strokes of insight of other people.
He was in the midst of planning an ice cream parlor when he had what may have been a flash of insight, a stroke of genius or a psychic message from his 90-year-old grandmother in Oklahoma: "Maybe I shouldn't just be doing ice cream," he thought.
In "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee," the realist view — the one that any thinking person who does not live by Hollywood myths accepts and even lives by in ordinary life — is so unusual that it comes through in this speech like a stroke of genius, a great insight into the Middle East and American history.
84 Certainly evaluations of health-related QOL in stroke survivors can provide a rich description of the multifaceted effects of a stroke, providing insights above those recorded with traditional impairment and activity measures.
