Fallen human beings see scattered sparks of truth, momentary flashes of illumination, and blurred pages from the book of nature. (religion-online.org)
What caused so much panic wasn't plummeting share prices; it was the mess underneath the mess: complex packages of high - risk mortgage securities that had been sold and resold, hedged, leveraged, and partitioned into untold numbers of pieces — and which in a momentary flash of Wall Street realism, now seemed to have little (or unknowable) worth. (fortune.com)
I walked back into the front room and he was leaning against the sofa with both his hands in his pockets, I had a momentary flash of how he'd look when he's a hairy teenager. (crappypictures.com)