There was one brief flicker of hope that Labour would once again embrace a broad church, around the time of Miliband's 2013 «One Nation» conference speech: but in policy terms One Nation turned out, for the most part, to be a slogan, and little more. (labour-uncut.co.uk)
Without immortality it is not simply true of individuals that, as another put it, life is «a blind, brief flicker between two oblivions»; in the long run that is also true of the whole human race. (religion-online.org)
There are brief flickers of brilliance — perhaps my tune will change in a month or two — but right now, it's a drag. (fresnobee.com)