Sentences with phrase «few fleeting»

Through a cover letter, you need to be able to get into the reader's head — make him think about you for more than a few fleeting seconds.

The racing game market is saturated with car games to the point the only time you saw road bikes in a game was with a few fleeting cameos in Project Gotham Racing and Test Drive Unlimited.

The initially impressive sight of crumbling environments collapsing buildings during fire fights is just that - a sight designed to deliver a few fleeting Michael Bay moments with limited interactivity before the action repositions itself across linear corridors and on - rails sections that form a staple part of modern Call of Duty games.

And while bike manufacturers such as Triumph and Ducati have lent their licenses to racing game developers in the past, they've largely been restricted to a few fleeting appearances in car - centric racing games such as Test Drive Unlimited and Project Gotham Racing that felt like an afterthought.

Thanks to its over-the-shoulder view and burly lead characters its drawn many comparisons to Epic's Gears of War series, but bar a few fleeting aspects this is a very different beast indeed.

Love is not a flower that fades with a few fleeting years.

It's all Jacob knows, though he has a few fleeting memories of his life before, and he has internalized Father Grace's ideas about condemnation, penance, and the impending doomsday.

More miss than hit, the film is unoriginal and easily forgotten, but not without a few fleeting moments of mindless entertainment.

by Sarah Ward «More miss than hit, the film is unoriginal and easily forgotten, but not without a few fleeting moments of mindless entertainment.»

Although the remarkable number of recognizable faces to be found within the cast make it worth checking out (Sam Rockwell, Alyssa Milano, Matthew McConaughey, John Rhys - Davies, Kristin Bauer, French Stewart, Brendan Fraser, Leah Remini, Meredith Salinger, Mary Woronov, and Spaulding Gray all make appearances), the predominant reason we've included «Glory Daze» — which is, for the record, explores the hesitation all college graduates experience before entering the real world — is because no matter how many films he may eventually have to his credit, Matt Damon should never be allowed to escape the fact that, even though it was only for a few fleeting moments, he once played a character named Edward Pudwacker.

For the most part, Blue Valentine is quite an unpleasant film, fixated with the misery of a relationship — with only a few fleeting moments of beauty or romance.

Around the one - hour mark, once Whannell finally has the whole ghost - hunting band back together again, «Insidious: Chapter 3» gives off a few fleeting sparks of pleasure and conjures up a couple of memorably creepy images (including that of a half - formed woman with no face, hands, or feet).

Then again, save for a few fleeting shots (including a cool one of Skull Rock), the world shown here has very little to do with the one seen in 1953's Peter Pan, so perhaps it's best to conceive of this series as part of some alternate Never - reality.

Considine gives us a few fleeting glimpses at the desperation behind Grahamâ $ ™ s confident facade, but we never get a satisfying exploration of the vulnerabilities and doubts that drive him into the cocoon of his illusions, which would work to humanize him.

I had a few fleeting moments of thinking maybe I wouldn't send it back, but I would rather hold out and find one that I really love.

Last night in my room at the Sunset Marquis I reached out for what I assumed was the room - service menu and passed a few fleeting surreal moments trying to imagine what «Upper Leg with Bikini» might taste like, for a mere $ 100.

In those few fleeting moments, he had a distinct feeling of déjà vu, a sensation that psychologists once considered too unpredictable and ephemeral to be studied in any systematic way.

Life, it seems, is not an incidental component of the universe, burped up out of a random chemical brew on a lonely planet to endure for a few fleeting ticks of the cosmic clock.

Over the next couple of decades, there were a few fleeting moments of excitement in the world of SETI.

At Milner, for a few fleeting seconds, eighth - grader Angel Rivera seemed impressed that a city school would have a butterfly vivarium.

When he did so Monday night, surging past frontrunner Donald Trump as he rode a wave of enthusiastic support, it appeared to validate — if only for a few fleeting hours before the presidential race resumes — the political positions that have made Cruz such a compelling but controversial figure.

While we recognize that the sex act may send man «s mind afloat for a few fleeting moments, it is but a minute part of the overall act of love.

For a few fleeting moments, several Clippers dared the Rockets to come farther into the room, sources said.

Take your eyes from the ball carriers sometime for a few fleeting moments and watch how their products in the righting rows perform.

During dry summers, the ocean must beckon youth that seek an escape from the town of 55,000, known for its garlic, wineries and a few fleeting exits on Route 101.

It was one of those rare times when sunlight squeezes itself into our tiny apartment for just a few fleeting moments, so I had to act quick to catch those sparkly rays on camera.

I knew that, in turn, I would not be experiencing this bliss if it had not been for the wonders of electricity; obeisance then to its discoverers, yes, and to the electricians, the technicians, the music publishers, the record publishers, the record producers, the instrument makers and cabinet makers, the storekeepers, the delivery men, yes to all those myriad men and women whose seemingly un-coordinated efforts, which in themselves were the product of millennia of past strivings, had unwittingly, conspired to bring me, yes me, paradoxically as it must seem, a few fleeting moments of timeless bliss.

When the 54 - year - old world leader manages to steal a few fleeting moments to unwind past dark, he reportedly reads good, old paper books, and not always about politics and domestic and foreign affairs.

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It helps you remember how fleeting life is, and how few our days are.

I remember (but could not find to link) a splendid editorial by the Christian Century's David Heim (some uncertainty about the author) from quite a few years ago (presumably before the 2008 election) wryly encouraging evangelicals to enjoy their moment in the political and cultural limelight because it would prove fleeting.

There was nudity, although in fleeting glimpses, and there was violence, albeit without gore, and there was anti-Catholic, racist, and «un-American» content in more than a few films.

In an age saturated with media accounts of tragedy and suffering, we have many stories that produce a fleeting emotion, but few that evoke anything more lasting.

All that seems within his power is the attainment of a few «fleeting intuitions, which light up their object only at distant intervals» (CE 292).

He has tried to tell his younger teammates how fleeting an NFL career can be, how few chances a player has to reach the Super Bowl.

While most Waldorf teachers will have heard of this approach, few will have experienced this method themselves as school children, and many may have made only fleeting acquaintance with this approach during their teacher training.

There's a tradition in Nassau County few residents ever get to see, and yet there it was on silent display Monday, New Year's Day — a reminder that both power and promise are fleeting.

Back then, few scientists had caught more than a fleeting glimpse of a forest elephant in the wild; they extrapolated populations by counting dung piles along paths the creatures carved through the underbrush.

Within a few seconds, electric bulbs dim and flicker, then become unusually bright for a fleeting moment.

They mostly appear as fleeting streaks of light lasting less than a second, but the brightest ones leave behind trails of vaporised gases and glowing air molecules that may take a few seconds to fade.

These fleeting outbursts last only a few thousandths of a second, but their emission ranks among the highest - energy light naturally occurring on Earth.

For a few tens of thousands of years — a fleeting moment in geological time — conditions were just right for near - perfect fossilisation.

Although researchers have caught fleeting glimpses and snapped a few photographs, no videos existed.

When faux fur jackets started popping up in retailers ranging from Forever 21 to Nordstrom a few years ago, it seemed like it might be a fleeting trend.

I know it's fleeting, because I see her friends who are just a few months older and they are true toddlers.

It's not as funny as it tries to be, but, for a few, fleeting minutes, it leaves an impression.

Content advisory: Pervasive creepy / scary images, including animated gore and gross - out images, usually played for laughs; some rude humor; a few mature references including a fleeting reference to a same - sex romantic relationship.

Oddly enough, the characters played by Elizabeth Debicki (Jordan), Isla Fisher (Myrtle), Jason Clarke (George), and Amitabh Bachchan (Meyer) are shunted aside more so than in the book or the 1974 film version, so there are fewer moments for those actors to make much more than positive, if fleeting, impressions.

Never taking itself seriously, all of the above is played purely for laughs, including a profusion of fleeting cameo appearances by celebs as themselves: Pharrell, Warren Buffett, Mike Tyson, Common and Gary Busey, to name a few.

Support for these modes are fleeting, each one only lasting a few years before Konami inevitably shuts the servers down - so enjoy MGO3's brazen weirdness now while you can.

A few days ago a rumour surfaced claiming to offer details on Carnage's role in Sony's upcoming Venom solo movie, with the report claiming that the character of Cletus Kasady would make a fleeting appearance towards the end of the film.