Sentences with phrase «brief flicker»

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.

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.

There are brief flickers of brilliance — perhaps my tune will change in a month or two — but right now, it's a drag.

For a brief flicker earlier this season, it seemed like MU had put that kind of performance behind them, cracking four goals in three consecutive matches.

Easy to say with a double - digit lead in the polls, while there are brief flickers of a Conservative government to come.

This was a relatively quiet PMQs, with a brief flicker of excitement from Hague and Harman temporarily livening things up.

What they didn't expect were two brief flickers a few seconds beforehand and afterward, suggesting that the asteroid was encircled by Saturn - like rings.

The most a customer in the wider area would have seen would have been a brief flicker of the lights.

There's a brief flicker as the tablet clicks into the dock, before the mouse trackpad and keyboard become live.

Eyes, faces, leaves, bird - forms and more are suggested and caught by Mills and have brief flickers of illustrated life.

There's a brief flicker as the tablet clicks into the dock, before the mouse trackpad and keyboard become live.