Sentences with phrase «only fleeting moments»

There are inklings of classic Allen that threaten to breach the surface, but these are only fleeting moments that soon recede.

Taco (Internet star Jon LaJoie) is a burnout, Andre (Human Giant's Paul Scheer) is a spoiled rich bachelor, and Ruxin (Nick Kroll, guy who's been in everything) is a new dad with only fleeting moments for football.

But, most people achieve such clarity for only fleeting moments, dismissing such experiences as a mere illusions or mental wanderings.

Trump, Brexit and the carnage in the bond market caused only fleeting moments of panic in the dash for trash that was 2016 — when stocks of any quality shot higher.

But it's only a fleeting moment, because there's way too much to think about in the main narrative for you to be distracted for long.

The Big Bad of Ant - Man and the Wasp is a mysterious figure, appearing for only a fleeting moment in the trailer, and not doing much other than look menacing in a grey hooded costume and mask.

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But underneath it all is a small, almost imperceptable current of life, and a promise of things so wonderful, we can not even comprehend them.I've seen it and sensed it, and tasted it, even if only for sporadic fleeting moments.

The exercise of patience, for instance, assumes that action directed toward the future is superior to action devoted only to the moment: it is self - restraint based upon a good that is seen as superior to the momentary self — the self - of - the - fleeting - moment.

In thus aiming not only at the creation of value but at its endurance, morality avoids becoming the rather self - indulgent experience of (merely) immediate, fleeting creativity, however genuine at that moment.

But these occasions exist only momentarily, enjoying a fleeting moment of subjective immediacy before passing into the past.

Sadly, as rich as the story might be, it only takes life off the pages of the bible insofar as something we read in church on Sunday to internalize in a fleeting moment.

And as human beings, those thoughts couldn't help but appear if only for a fleeting moment in the heads of most of the players and staff.

But it never quite worked out for the 24 - year - old, who consistently failed to hold down a first - team place and only ever delivered moments of quality on fleeting occasions.

You will have unpleasant moments, but know that they are only moments and in the big picture of your children's lives, it's a fleeting thing you will look back at and laugh about some day, even if you can't today.

It may have only been for a brief, fleeting moment.

The team also showed that the exchanged quantum vibrations were «virtual» — appearing only for fleeting moments — just like the vibrations exchanged by electrons.

So far there are only two known plutoids — Pluto and Eris, the latter of which enjoyed a fleeting moment of fame as the tenth planet.

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.

Faulting only with some fleeting moments of flippancy, Battle of the Sexes wins by serving up both a crowd - pleasing spectacle and the human drama than ultimately made it so much more.

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.

There are some fleeting moments of inspiration — the music by Rob Simonsen is a master class in sudsy melodrama, and Nixon turns in a great performance — but «The Only Living Boy in New York» is rotten to its Big Apple core.

Out of every bit in the film, only once did it feel like it wasn't real and that was just for a fleeting moment.

Mulligan portrays Sissy, the emotionally need sister to Michael Fassbender's, intimacy challenged Brandon, and her song, performed in an upscale New York City club is one of only a couple fleeting moments that she gets through to him emotionally.

It works only when a fleeting moment of opportunity demands a single, flat tone.

The children, did they feel grief at leaving their best friend, or in those moments did their parent's create another uncaring citizen of earth, only interested in their own wants and needs, no matter how fleeting or how destructive.

In a few instances, an American character's moral superiority is called into question, but it's only for a fleeting moment and then easily forgotten.

My favorite Nintendo franchises are Mario, Kirby and Legend of Zelda, though I do have fleeting moments of entering fandoms beyond the Big N (mainly Japan only stuff).

Persistence is the only guarantee of success and those moments will be especially fleeting to start out with.

Back to the big question: Is it fair to future generations, to look for, select, and stand upon that most extraordinary moment, Grande being about a Krakatoah and a half only reversed in sign, and to peer out towards posterity with the inevitable aftermath of such a fleeting, cyclical phenomenon occupying the foreground?