Sentences with phrase «blinding flash of»

Doesn't seem that's the case here, and I find it hard to believe too that you had a blinding flash of renting it while applying for an owner occupied loan, but I could be wrong, just hard to beleive...

, both would disappear in a blinding flash of light.

It might also have a hole a truck could be driven through that you missed in the blinding flash of creative genius that generated the poster session.

Did you wear sunglasses to avoid optic nerve damage at that blinding flash of the obvious there, James?

In a blinding flash of fuss, London's galleries and museums simultaneously launched their autumn events, greeted by the now traditional crop of seasonal arts features declaring the British to be a nation in love with modern art.

The iBook publisher gets nothing, no email, no blinding flash of light.

«We as an audience saw that... The truth is, we see the lightsaber split in half — Kylo sees a blinding flash of light and is knocked unconscious, and then Rey takes the lightsaber away before he wakes up,» he said.

But, fascinatingly, Catch Me If You Can resembles Hitchcock's pictures in general in its self - mocking self - awareness: Spielberg's film is a canny satire of American culture and cinema, and, shockingly, a sly auto - critique of his decades - long pandering to the lowest common denominator; to the blinding flash of materialism; and to his almost pathological desire to restore nuclear order at the cost of any faithfulness to theme and mood.

The amount of human - power it takes to air a national TV ad, the number of eyes and ears that it must pass, and the shear amount of cash involved says one thing to me: the whole company missed a blinding flash of the obvious.

When you see it you can't help remember that before he was struck down in a blinding flash of insight, Paul was one arrogant man.

These brief, blinding flashes of high energy radiation apparently originate from the farthest corners of the Universe, but the mechanism that produces them is currently beyond our comprehension.

Mr Hobby, in a new blog published today, argues leadership is rarely about «blinding flashes of strategic insight» and says strategy is «made up in retrospect, as a narrative created to explain reactions, damage control and blind luck.»

But Robertson and Robarts have jazzed it up with period photographs, their favorite furniture from the forties to the present day, and blinding flashes of color — lime green, peacock blue, lipstick pink — on everything from the refrigerators to the telephones.

Not exact matches

Truth is, even if God showed up in a flash of blinding light, wearing a big name tag that said «Hello, my name is God,» I'd still manage to wonder if it wasn't David Blaine.

Rex Allen, the Singing Cowboy, was galloping into the Canadian Western Rodeo in Edmonton, Alberta, white hat held high and all that, when a flash of light blinded his horse.

I realised, I had a somewhat blind view of motherhood and as quick as the character «the flash», I gained a much broader insight into my new role.

Analysing the area of the brain that creates these tiny flashes of light could help blind people see.

Kubodera's videos, which captured 14 attack behaviors, showed that as a squid approached, it sometimes emitted a short flash from photophores (light - producing organs) on the tips of its arms, perhaps in an effort to blind its prey or to illuminate it for easier capture.

A new genetic therapy not only helped blind mice regain enough light sensitivity to distinguish flashing from non-flashing lights, but also restored light response to the retinas of dogs, setting the stage for future clinical trials of the therapy in humans.

Artificial retinas, light - sensitive chips that mimic the eye's signal - processing ability and stimulate the optical nerve or visual cortex, have been tested in a handful of blind subjects who usually «see» nothing more than phosphenes, or flashes of light.

Eighteen years ago, a blind patient saw a similar flash of light when Mark Humayun, an ophthalmologist and biomedical engineer at the University of Southern California's Doheny Eye Institute, placed an electrode directly on the person's retina during surgery.

One word of caution: this doesn't apply to women who have the type of migraines that strike after an «aura,» like flashes of light or blind spots in vision.

About 20 percent of sufferers have an aura — visual disturbances such as flashing lights and blind spots.

Both Miss32 and Miss Nameless had described the Stand - In as attractive, and the girls had insisted on showing me a picture of the Stand - In before texting him, so I knew very roughly what he looked like, but it had literally been a Facebook photo flashed at me on a phone screen, before I objected that it should be a blind date and pushed the phone away.

When bottom falls out of the entire setup, there's a flash of promise — of the movie having something to say about the sort of system that would prop up a corrupt scheme because everyone is either too lazy or too blinded by the prospect of money to do a basic search for the truth.

... I braked briefly before a banked, blind curve and then hit the throttle again, a flash of dry leaves blasted into the air behind me.

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Building on the benefits of blind spot monitoring, the Closing Vehicle Sensing system uses radar sensors to alert the driver to the presence of vehicles approaching fast from behind when changing lanes by displaying a flashing icon in the corner of the side mirrors.1

In addition to eliminating blind spots, the camera display can flash warning messages if the driver is about to merge in front of a faster - moving vehicle or perform a similarly hazardous maneuver.

Also part of the Advance Package is the Blind Spot Information System, which notifies drivers that a vehicle is in the MDX's blind spot by illuminating an LED near the appropriate side - view mirror and flashing that LED if the turn signal is activBlind Spot Information System, which notifies drivers that a vehicle is in the MDX's blind spot by illuminating an LED near the appropriate side - view mirror and flashing that LED if the turn signal is activblind spot by illuminating an LED near the appropriate side - view mirror and flashing that LED if the turn signal is activated.

Heck, Turn Assist will even prevent you from pulling into oncoming traffic if you fail to see someone coming, and Exit Assist leverages the A4's blind - spot - detection system to beep and flash warnings if you're about to open a door into the path of a speeding motorist or cyclist when parked.

Master of thrilling nonfiction Michael Lewis (Flash Boys, The Blind Side) excels at breaking down the most important stories in the world of American finance and economics into character - driven narratives, and The Big Short is no exception.

«Open your --» Pop... She went blind as a flash of searing light filled the room.

Some writers have flashes of inspiration, blinding literary thunderbolts which hit them with undeniable force: they know at once that this is a book that must be written.

He's written some world - class books, including The Blind Side, Liar's Poker, Moneyball, and, more recently, Flash Boys (which I am currently in the process of reading — maybe another book review to come!).

Close the shades, curtains or blinds to minimize the flashes and burst of light.

I am so grateful for that brilliant flash of blinding insight.

yes indeedy... the snow is falling in Fernie and there are so many smiles around town that the flash of white teeth is as blinding as the snow itself!

His signature style of overexposure and on - board flash is evident in this work, perhaps almost a bit too blinding for his frail subject.

Cracco invites viewers into the intimacy and the danger of light, whether it is the low light of a candle, the flash of colliding atoms, or the blinding light of the sun, Blinded highlights the importance of the surface, the value of improvisation and the simple fact that just as light can not turn a corner, when you get to the edges of these new works the illusion breaks down, leaving viewers with the memory of being blinded by the intimacy and the intricacy of color andBlinded highlights the importance of the surface, the value of improvisation and the simple fact that just as light can not turn a corner, when you get to the edges of these new works the illusion breaks down, leaving viewers with the memory of being blinded by the intimacy and the intricacy of color andblinded by the intimacy and the intricacy of color and paint.

Intelligent assistants do a pretty good job of owning the morning already by serving up flash news briefings and control of Internet of Things devices to turn on the lights, lift the blinds, and start the coffee maker.

What's more, that front - facing flash promises to illuminate your mug — and perhaps temporarily blind you — in darkened situations that also demand you take pictures of your face.