Sentences with phrase «brief flash of»

... Google believes that all the important consumer buying decisions happen in a brief flash of time.

Said one lawyer: «I've always found a brief flash of fishnets under a skirt suit a very effective method of tribunal advocacy.»

I had a brief flash of hope that this was the Dr David Thorpe who used to write the «Your Band Sucks» column for somethingawful.com.

As you'd expect from a game that's barely been officially announced — with just a brief flash of the game's logo at this year's E3 aiming for a Holiday 2017 release... Read More»

Trust me, you'd be better off just burning the money — at least you could enjoy the brief flash of warmth from the fire.

A brief flash of Community «s Gillian Jacobs as his bride - to - be only compounds that problem.

Hidden in the featurette are some little snippets of deleted scenes that aren't highlighted in the deleted scenes section such as a brief flash of Bean presenting the deadline to Ender and Bean in tears at the end saying, «He lied!»

One weird thing is that Kevin Smith's name is not even mentioned save for a brief flash of credits at the end of the trailer.

There are a handful of tense scenes in Eddie Coyle too, such as the cold and calculated bank heists and a stake out at a train station which ends in a brief flash of Yates» car chase handling skills, but these aren't what really make the film shine.

The animals were trained to focus their visual attention on a wall in the testing chamber with five ports and to respond to a brief flash of light within one port by poking their nose into that port.

They claim their newly patented device can render an assailant helpless with a brief flash of high - intensity light.

Then the scientists affixed a small device to the volunteers» arms that delivered a brief flash of heat up to about 45 °C (or 113 °F).

Xenon's attractive property is that it gives off a brief flash of light if a WIMP bumps into the nucleus of one of its atoms.

Instinctively, I felt a shiver go through my body, then a brief flash of euphoria, then sadness and then, ultimately, relief.

Save for a brief flash of independence under the courageous Maccabees they were never again to be a free people — at least not until, after nearly two thousand years of dispersion, they established the new state of Israel in 1948.

Shannon experienced a brief flash of fame after the publication of his seminal work on information theory in 1948.

And it is mainly fear and despair I feel if I'm honest, despite brief flashes of defiance and rebellion that I try to cling to.

Electrons thus accelerated could be wiggled by magnets to create a so - called free - electron laser (FEL), which generates exceptionally bright and brief flashes of x-rays that can illuminate short - lived chemical and biological phenomena.

It wasn't for lack of interest: since their discovery in the late 1960s, these brief flashes of high - energy electromagnetic radiation have been one of the enduring mysteries of astrophysics.

While showing a series of emotionally neutral images in quick succession, the researchers included brief flashes of faces, pictures or words that were either positive or negative.

These brief flashes of delight, are just that: brief... at least for the most part.

With only brief flashes of the last few years of her life, her world has narrowed to a few close friendships on the island where she lives with her devoted husband, Jacob.

Brief flashes of insecurity would add a lot to the character of Morgan, but only when added at just the right time; as is, there are moments when the façade seems to falter with the entire crew present and you have to wonder how some more ambitious pirate didn't dethrone her long before the film had ended.

These elements add up to a taut, nailbiting thriller punctuated by brief flashes of violence which allows audiences to collectively exhale the brreaths they've been holding for long stretches at a time.

All the rest of Thor's 113 minutes felt so synthetic and overfamiliar that those brief flashes of spontaneity stood out like Morse code messages from another, better movie.

Ted 2 isn't wholly devoid of laughs, or even brief flashes of brilliance.

There are a pair of brief flashes of the face of a young girl whom Miguel couldn't save.

Still, even if those 8 minutes add some things that don't fly in PG - 13land (like brief flashes of nudity and extensive uses of Samuel L. Jackson's blogger - inspired «SOAP» exclamation), more offensive elements probably existed in the theatrical cut, which presumably still comprises 91 % of the extended cut.

We saw some brief flashes of blood being extracted — could it play a part in augmenting players or enabling some other gameplay aspects?

Her «Arabesque» tries to compensate for this imbalance with the film stills and brief flashes of text from Clara's diary.

Not exact matches

I get my flash briefing from Alexa, which gets me a hands - free summary of what's on fire in the real world, and I do a quick check of Slack on my phone, which gets me a quick summary of what's on fire at work.

The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism; the drums were beating, the bands playing, the toy pistols popping, the bunched firecrackers hissing and spluttering; on every hand and far down the receding and fading spread of roofs and balconies a fulttering wilderness of flags flashed in the sun; daily the young volunteers marched down the wide avenue gay and fine in their new uniforms, the proud fathers and mothers and sisters and sweethearts cheering them with voices choked with happy emotion as they swung by; nightly the packed mass meetings listened, panting, to patriot oratory with stirred the deepest deeps of their hearts, and which they interrupted at briefest intervals with cyclones of applause, the tears running down their cheeks the while; in the churches the pastors preached devotion to flag and country, and invoked the God of Battles beseeching His aid in our good cause in outpourings of fervid eloquence which moved every listener.

For a peasant woman's child in occupied territory in an out - of - the - way corner of the Roman Empire to have become the man he did, attracting what looked like flash - in - the - pan attention during his brief years of ministry, unknown to most of his contemporaries and viewed as an upstart, a wonder - worker, or a fanatic by most of those who knew about him, dying a felon's death deserted by most of his close and trusted friends with the incredible rumor then circulated that he had risen again — what chance had he of any lasting fame?

There have undoubtedly been flashes of brilliance on the pitch, but those moments have proven to be just as brief as his stay with several teams.

He had a brief thought of committing suicide, but quickly dismissed it when the faces of his wife and two children flashed through his -LSB-...]

MeerLICHT, a 65 - centimeter optical telescope, is expected to help identify the sources of fast radio bursts (FRBs)-- extremely brief, energetic flashes of radio waves from remote galaxies.

«A prerequisite for capturing such a brief event is a light flash which can pull electrons — or to use the scientific term, polarize them — extremely quickly, and thus probe their response,» said Dr. Mohammed Hassan, a researcher in the group of Dr. Goulielmakis.

But solar flares — the brief, intense flashes of light caused by the sun's magnetic fields changing shape suddenly — couldn't be causing the heating because none were observed.

But illumination of the network with a brief flash (10 milliseconds) of blue light causes each of these bacterial photoreceptors to jolt their host cell a bit.

«Each incredibly brief but powerful flash of X-rays literally outruns any damage or disintegration of the crystal from this radiation, giving us strong and pristine structural information.»

The researchers fixed a three centimetre long diamond strip, just 0.3 millimetre thick, in a specimen holder and triggered a shock wave with a brief flash from a powerful infrared laser that hit the narrow edge of the diamond; this pulse lasted 0.15 billionths of a second (150 picoseconds) and reached a power level of up to 12 trillion watts (12 terawatts) per square centimetre.

Subjects next were again shown all 40 of the face flash cards and directed to write brief descriptions of the memories evoked by each.

Those time spans coincide with known stellar behavior: once a year, for example, a red giant pulsates in brightness, an event astronomers think is linked to an episodic shedding of gas; likewise, every 5,000 years the helium in an outer layer of the star ignites and burns up in a flash, and the star undergoes a brief burst of expansion.

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.

A BRIEF but brilliant flash in the distant universe suggests that smacking two dead stars together can create heavy elements in vast amounts — including 10 moon masses» worth of gold.

Hot flashes are brief episodes of flushing, sweating, racing heartbeat and sensations of heat.

In the journal Optical Materials Express, from The Optical Society (OSA), the researchers reported that graphene oxide sheets treated with brief exposure to bright light in the form of a camera flash exhibited reversible bending at angles from zero to 85 degrees in response to switching the relative humidity between 33 and 86 percent.

To compile the new map, the scientists used two satellite - based detectors capable of picking up on brief lightning flashes even during daylight.

In the final minutes of its plunge toward the moon, NASA's LCROSS spacecraft spotted the brief infrared flash of a rocket booster hitting the lunar surface just ahead of it — and it even saw heat from the crater formed by the impact.

«The game to see the light from these catastrophic mergers is on,» says Mansi Kasliwal, assistant professor of astronomy and the leader of the Caltech effort to search for electromagnetic emission from gravitational waves using the intermediate Palomar Transient Factory, a robotic survey for astrophysical transients (brief, intense flashes of light), and a network of other telescopes.