Sentences with phrase «flashing before my eyes»

«I never saw my life flash before my eyes.

In that moment, it was not my life that flashed before my eyes but a tableau, revealing the ingrained patterns of my long practiced selfishness.

Science is in agreement with this and we see not only near death experiences but people who go through trauma seeing their whole life flash before their eyes.

So now that you just saw your entire week flash before your eyes, I think we can agree the 5 minute effort investment it takes to throw this batter together in the blender more than pays for itself in snack problem - solving and overall positive vibes.

«When the fans began pouring onto the court, my whole basketball life flashed before my eyes,» Molly recalls.

«My life's flashing before my eyes.

I saw my life flash before my eyes when Simmons got his leg and knee awkwardly wrapped up with Dwight Powell.

This gentleman was just innocently going to grab a seat at the adjacent tee when all of a sudden his life flashed before his eyes.

For a split second, I saw her entire teenagerhood flash before my eyes.

Dollar signs are flashing before your eyes - and that's just one child's list.

I peered over the edge and an image flashed before my eyes: my infant and I splayed on the ground below.

«Forgive my ill - mannerism, but I could not comprehend why a governor will celebrate the wedding of his daughter, and another governor of his son, on the front pages of newspapers, flashing it before our eyes, when other peoples» daughters are in captivity,» Bakare said.

Sitting in a dark room, peering into a lab device, women saw three colored circles flash before their eyes.

Earlier studies have found that numbers and letters flashed before the eyes often register in the brain, a process called «semantic priming.»

As scenes from my life flashed before my eyes, I received a revelation: The 6 years it took to get my bachelor's degree finally made sense.

The participants — all of whom had normal or, thanks to glasses or contacts, corrected - to - normal vision — sat before a computer and watched as two lines of different lengths flashed before their eyes.

Her first year of life feels like it just flashed before my eyes.

I feel as though I am seeing my college days flash before my eyes.

Synopsis: During a car accident, Vincent Eastman (Richard Gere) watches his whole life flash before his eyes, and he doesn't like what he sees.

There are a lot of small moments and gags that work (Charming's falsetto, the Gingerbread Man's life flashing before his eyes, and a well - placed horn to block out Puss» description of soon - to - be father Shrek come to mind), and they make for a somewhat entertaining experience.

Bialystock exclaims, «Somebody else's life is flashing before my eyes!»

In the opening moments of «The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey», for this reviewer, an entire life with J. R. R. Tolkien's book flashed before my eyes.

My life flashed before my eyes as I prepared to meet the fate of the Cassidy kid up the street, who died at this intersection when he failed to stop his wooden sled in time.

Days from now, with a gun to my head and my life flashing before my eyes, I would see the truth in a bright - crystal vision and it would break my heart.

Her life didn't flash before her eyes as she'd always heard.

Too late An instant vision flashed before my eyes of the first time I set foot in that store when I was in Arizona for the big annual Gem show.

«A game screen flashed before my eyes.

Seeing his life flash before his eyes, he sees Zant who promptly cracks his neck, and Ganondorf perishes, dying on his feet.

Nightmarish visions of lava pits, hellgates and public executions of unfaithful creative developers all flash before my eyes... but apparently, the first thing he'd like is for the PC development scene to start flourishing again.

They often say that life flashes before your eyes, well this is certainly an experience you will have with Spectra!

Imagine the life of painting flashing before its eyes in the last moment before extinction.

«I'm seeing my whole life flash before my eyes,» Heilmann said to the crowd seated for dinner at tables on the museum's patio.

I saw my entire career flash before my eyes.

When parents of a teen first watch their baby take the wheel, they may be too busy seeing the years flash before their eyes to focus on insurance for the family's newest driver.

Indeed, the would - be Sith Lord slashed at me with his lightsaber, but my Force sense flashed before my eyes, showing two yellow lines where I could hold my own lightsaber to parry his attacks.

I had two near death experiences from a recent surgery in January and at the age of 50, life flashes before your eyes too quickly.

Big tears well up in my eyes, my lip starts quivering and my life as a mom flashes before my eyes... I see my little girls, their long eyelashes fluttering on mine as they kissed me goodnight, I see them giggling, riding ponies, dancing around in princess dresses, I can feel their chubby five year old arms wrapped tenderly around my neck, their soft cheek on my cheek, and suddenly in the blink of an eye they are 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, sweet sixteen...

Not exact matches

When Shobert came around the turn he saw his teammate sprawled among the hay bales, and the No. 1 plate flashed before Bubba's eyes, momentarily blinding him.

«Literally within a tenth of a second before you move your eyes, there is this incredible flash of network activity in the front of the brain, and then the eyes move,» Schroeder says.

For instance, subjects can distinguish between a face that looks angry or one that has a neutral expression even if those faces are rendered «invisible» by flashing them only very briefly onto a screen and by adding distracting images just before and just after the picture to effectively mask or erase the picture from the mind's eye.

You perceive that the characters on the screen are moving, but in fact you are seeing many still pictures flashing rapidly before your eyes.

«Before each video, we flashed a small picture to capture the child's attention, and when they looked to where the picture had been, they found that they were either looking directly at another person's eyes or looking away from the eyes,» said Moriuchi.

Especially eye - catching are bright points that flash up occasionally — much richer in contrast in these ultraviolet images than have been seen before.

First you reel me in with that great chicken salad and then you flash yummy pierogis before my eyes... Love pierogis!

Kael writes: «Who watching the pious Haven Hamilton sing the evangelical «Keep a» Goin,» his eyes flashing with a paranoid gleam as he keeps the audience under surveillance, would guess that the song represented his true spirit, and that when injured he would think of the audience before himself?»

«Somehow cell phone video, dash cam video and news media flashing before our very eyes, hour after hour, the murder and victimisation of black and brown bodies has desensitised us.

It's a controlled performance by Johansson, who captures the character's uncanny emptiness, even if the result is that she's not the easiest central character to root for, even as flashes (or «ghosts») of her previous life start appearing before her eyes.

The writers of flash fiction also have a hand in helping to refine it, define it, and extend it, and such writing is constantly reconfiguring and metamorphosing before our very eyes.

I remember making eye contact with Murphy moments before she took her last breath — she flashed me a look that was an endearing blend of confusion and the reassurance that everyone was ok because we were both by her side.

While some will cry, «But Ben, we've seen all of this before,» there's a lot more going on under the hood of Nex Machina than initially meets the eye, and this is where the game flashes its subtle brilliance.