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  • Cai's impact on the Scottish capital will not just be a momentary intervention on the city skyscape.
  • a momentary glimpse
  • I had a momentary image - very clear, very politically incorrect, and very likely brought on by Pam's mention of the cartoon books I'd once drawn for a little sick girl - of a large talking skunk in a beret, Monsieur Pepé Le Pew, strutting around my daughter's pension (if that was the word for a bedsitter-type apartment in Paris) with wavy aroma lines rising from his white-striped back. Duma Key
  • A momentary lapse in the final set cost her the match.
  • The rules allow state lawmakers to clear up a mishap if they suffered from a momentary case of stumbly fingers or a lapse in attention. Report: Obama Involved In 1996 Liberal Questionnaire, Despite Campaign's Denials
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  • ‘It is tragic that a momentary lapse of concentration can have such consequences,’ said Mr Singleton, who recorded a verdict of accidental death.
  • The answer was returned in a still louder laugh, and in a shot fired at the challenger, the momentary light of the explosion revealing, as Dauntrees imagined, a cloaked figure presenting a harquebuss through the window. Rob of the bowl : a legend of St. Inigoe's,
  • Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors, so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters.
  • Buddhism first asks us not only to see the momentary and suffering character of the world, but also to have tolerance in accepting suffering as natural and not negative.
  • One momentary lapse in concentration could prove fatal.
  • The distant clatter of a milk van revives a long-lost, though momentary, reverie.
  • He had a momentary glimpse of himself from above, as if through a camera lens.
  • The distant clatter of a milk van revives a long-lost, though momentary, reverie.
  • One momentary lapse in concentration could prove fatal.
  • That momentary impishness, that glimpse of the old Avy, disappears. Famous
  • Ian's head smacked against the bottom of the dashboard and his ears popped from the momentary change in air pressure.
  • A momentary drop in concentration and Schuettler was two breaks down and the set had slipped away from him.
  • A momentary lapse in the final set cost her the match.
  • From the walls of the room jagged flashes of blue-white lightning clawed out at the creature, outlining it in a momentary nimbus of sparks and power which faded in the blink of an eye.
  • What took place was a momentary loss of temper and he struck out in anger.
  • Predictably, the media shaped the saga of the rescued miners according to time-worn journalistic methods, massaging it into a ‘good news’ story, while working to turn the miners themselves into momentary celebrities.
  • Into his brain streamed one momentary lightning-flash of the Brahmic Splendor which has ever since lightened his life; upon his heart fell one drop of Brahmic Bliss, leaving thenceforward for always an aftertaste of heaven.
  • Algernon Peckham glanced at him, and there was a momentary pause before he moved on to speak to James Pegg.
  • Any Republican urge to negotiate a ‘least bad’ compromise with the Democrats, and thereby gain momentary public credit for helping the president ‘do something’ about health care, should also be resisted. The Medical is Political « PubliCola
  • He was distraught afterwards, and his act could only be explained as a momentary mental lapse. Times, Sunday Times
  • noticed the bee's momentary orienting pause before heading back to the hive
  • There was Pitapat flitting about the bed in momentary danger of looking under it! The Hidden Hand
  • Its a mirage, a figment of some businessman's dream or an economists momentary flash of desperation.
  • There was a momentary pause followed by another spine-tingling scream that seemed to go on forever. KISS OF THE BEES
  • She cast a sad momentary glance around the room then stood up to retrieve her coat.
  • Any one person can win the game, his unfortunate momentary rival getting the blame for the inverse loss.
  • Their faces were blue, and their stillness not a mass death but as though a momentary pause in group exercise.
  • And a momentary pause in aircraft landings at an airport nobody uses anyway. The Sun
  • Foley, who's openly gay, says he was molested by a priest as a child, leading him to addiction and what he calls a momentary lapse of judgment. CNN Transcript Nov 12, 2008
  • Yeats is prepared to try out the latest poetic fashions - Pre-Raphaelite languor with its confiscation of medieval surfaces, desacralised and airbrushed with momentary desire.
  • I couldn't explain the momentary stillness inside of me, or the rush of nameless emotions that followed.
  • This was not a momentary lapse of judgment. Times, Sunday Times
  • We had cut away our mast, and lightened the boat of all she contained -- Clara attempted to assist me in heaving the water from the hold, and, as she turned her eyes to look on the lightning, I could discern by that momentary gleam, that resignation had conquered every fear. III.9
  • Beside them, though, was a crowd of mobile phone-weilding snappers hoping for momentary fame as their grainy pictures were picked up by Sky or the BBC.
  • No," said Dawson, "or if I have, it is a mere momentary qualm which is gone before I can realise it. Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile
  • At the very worst, he is guilty of a momentary lapse of reason. The Sun
  • His role, as he sees it, is simple: he's there to ease our passing, to provide momentary succour to our loved ones in a time of grief.
  • Momentary panic seized him, and he patted urgently at his pockets, discovering with relief that the things he would need were still there.
  • However, the momentary setback of failing that exam delays Dan just enough to miss the plane.
  • Even with her own surprise, she saw his shock and momentary confusion, but in a microsecond, his eyes went flat and his expression smoothed out. In the Midnight Hour
  • The other women hated her for her momentary exaltation above them; only the children still admired her as one who had undoubtedly "canoodled" with a man "a-going to be hung" -- a daring flight beyond their wildest ambition. Stories in Light and Shadow
  • Each of the short stories in Dubliners concludes with a showing that manifests the integrity and indivisible nature of some momentary ‘triviality,’ as Joyce calls it.
  • A momentary look of anxiety passed across his face.
  • But despite the momentary release, it doesn't solve the problem, and may compound it.
  • Mercedes To line this car up on an empty highway and roll on the throttle is to experience a unique, Newtonian effervescence, a momentary microgravity when the 4,800-pound dreadnaught around you disappears and you float in a kind of parabolic apogee of pleasure. Olympian Acceleration
  • What is so dangerous that our oldest statutes could be upended for such a ha'p'orth of momentary panic?
  • Quite apart from that, which represents the momentary state of science that may change tomorrow, the whole idea that natural laws imply a lawgiver is due to a confusion between natural and human laws.
  • The colliding egos of senior officials caused momentary and unforgivable lapses. Times, Sunday Times
  • At center stage, in the eye of the storm, she exquisitely poises a dynamic tension that offers a momentary, philosophical repose, which is nothing more than the point of view of her birds. James Scarborough: Lisa Adams and the Spirituality of Imperfection
  • Battle was only a momentary distraction, a simple, uncomplicated escape from the troubles of his life.
  • A father watching his daughter comb her brother's hair experiences a momentary pang of pure happiness.
  • Too many words trying to describe a small detail or a momentary glance will only destroy the image.
  • After a momentary lull, he and the others turned back and prayed even harder.
  • This made me flinch and caused me to have a momentary lapse in concentration. Times, Sunday Times
  • The D major conclusion blazed forth in its full glory, brilliantly anticipated by a momentary slowing of the tempo just before the final outburst.
  • Whenever she was still, he seated himself at her chamber door, where, if he could hear her breathe or move, a sudden hope of her recovery gave to him a momentary extasy that recompensed all his sufferings. Cecilia
  • The talk faded to a momentary lull, and Matt seized his chance.
  • She appears to value nothing except publicity, to think of nothing beyond momentary pleasure.
  • The silent eternity of a shadowless corner house, the view of a deserted street - you can't get enough of the virtuosity of these momentary recordings, the play with colour, light and contrast.
  • Suddenly the serenity is broken as a giant bird, recalling the mythological roc, barges through the brush, creating a momentary panic among the dawn horses.
  • In any event, she was charming in the face of my momentary lapse in speech.
  • He seemed suddenly struck with an awful thought, which caused a momentary pallescence in his rosy complexion; and after a brief hesitation, he turned his galloway, and told his companions he should give them good day. Maid Marian
  • They are usually "gusty," the gusts being a momentary movement at a higher speed. Flying Machines: Construction and Operation
  • Aside from that momentary blip, I had a pretty good stab at everything and there was nothing I left blank - not even the odd word in the translation section.
  • This was not a momentary lapse of judgment. Times, Sunday Times
  • Something perhaps in his white set face gave her a momentary qualm, for at tea that afternoon there was toast on the table, a delicacy which she usually banned on the ground that it was bad for him
  • In their estimation, nothing could explain the coincidences except the momentary passing of a gravitational wave.
  • His momentary lapse allowed Long to ghost into the space he used for the game's opening goal. Times, Sunday Times
  • Unfortunately, there are about a dozen times throughout the concert where there are momentary dropouts in the volume level; abrupt ones that are here and gone in a second or two.
  • Frustratingly unproductive weekend, caused partly by the momentary glimmerings of a social life and partly by my own hopelessness and indolence.
  • At his decease, there is only a vacancy, and a momentary eddy, -- very small, as compared with the apparent magnitude of the ingurgitated object, -- and a bubble or two, ascending out of the black depth and bursting at the surface. The House of the Seven Gables
  • The momentary high voltage on the metal plate provides the necessary energy to ionize the xenon gas, making the gas conductive.
  • Suffice to say it was a much more dangerous and miserable version of the above story (imagine seven-year-old crack addicts), but ultimately became an exercise in momentary transcendence. Archive 2007-09-01
  • This made me flinch and caused me to have a momentary lapse in concentration. Times, Sunday Times
  • Sometimes, in momentary reaction from the pent-up feelings of indignation and revolt, which were chronic with me during my imprisonments, I could have laughed out loud at the imbecility and pathos of human fallibility, that civilised (?) educated beings could continue such processes by way of ridding themselves from the dangers and active harmfulness of crime. Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences
  • At his decease, there is only a vacancy, and a momentary eddy, -- very small, as compared with the apparent magnitude of the ingurgitated object, -- and a bubble or two, ascending out of the black depth, and bursting at the surface. The House of the Seven Gables
  • Such cases may be styled momentary luxation, whether they are due to a weakened condition of the patellar ligaments or spasmodic contraction of the crural muscles. Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
  • Alas, I am built more for momentary lapses in judgment than permanent holiness. Times, Sunday Times
  • We had a momentary chill when they climbed aboard ... piracy?
  • They are momentary events of great import and even beauty.
  • It is possible that the ‘breath holding’ episodes the child exhibited previously were in fact intermittent and momentary obstruction of the glottis by the tonsil.
  • Four or five can jar your legs badly and shake your guts up into a momentary dysentery if you land wrong.
  • Unfortunately for President Obama, he had a momentary lapse, detoured from the teleprompter and showed the American people how he truly feels. sean White House mocks coverage of 'Beer Summit'
  • So instead of having a momentary peak in cortisol, you have a permanent elevation of it. Andrew Solomon - An interview with author
  • That queasy feeling when you are gliding on a large puddle is usually a momentary problem. The Sun
  • It provides momentary comfort, but does little to break a troublesome habit or cure a nagging infection.
  • ‘It would appear the cause of this accident was perhaps a momentary lapse of concentration, perhaps, by the defendant,’ he said.
  • The crying woman's head jerked up, eyes flashing in momentary anger at my tone of voice.
  • There was no momentary flash of inspiration; it was typical of Laura's talent to turn a disadvantage into an advantage.
  • There were no towers or battlements: only the faceted tholus, climbing until it lost itself against the sky and its momentary brilliancies were confounded with the faint star's. The Shadow of the Torturer
  • Predictably, the media shaped the saga of the rescued miners according to time-worn journalistic methods, massaging it into a ‘good news’ story, while working to turn the miners themselves into momentary celebrities.
  • It's not all that civilized, though, as I learn when I almost lose my wild-boar salami to a humpy black weasel through momentary inattention to my daypack.
  • Clearly it was just an accident of history, a fluke, a momentary incursion of an otherwise universal pandemic.
  • There will be countless athletes at these Olympic Games who will suffer a momentary lapse after four years of preparation and hard work. Times, Sunday Times
  • The sense of relief is momentary as further scrutiny reveals the cracks in the economy.
  • Michael fell to the ground, landing in momentary confusion on his head and shoulders. Chapter 36
  • Perhaps the collapse could have been attributed to a momentary lapse of concentration. Times, Sunday Times
  • Too many words trying to describe a small detail or a momentary glance will only destroy the image.
  • And that momentary fantasy costs you dear because as you land, you twist your knee. The Sun
  • The momentary hint of a smile touched the second man's lips and vanished, but his dark eyes changed not at all, nor did the faintest hint of expression mar his smooth golden-brown skin. Flash
  • An inquest heard how a momentary lapse of concentration may have caused a crash that killed three members of one family.
  • That is what I call oppression!" returned Mr. Bacon, in momentary indignation, for the utterance of which he was as quickly repentant. The Lights and Shadows of Real Life
  • Ah," she said, on a tone judiciously compounded of feminine artlessness and of forthright British candour, and with a play of the eyebrows that attributed her momentary suscitation to the workings of memory, "of course -- Blanchemain. My Friend Prospero
  • A wallet gets picked from inside a kimono sleeve in a momentary impulse.
  • The jarvey stared at her in momentary stupefaction. A Wicked Gentleman
  • Cassandra looked on in amusement, glad for the momentary diversion.
  • This was not a momentary lapse of judgment. Times, Sunday Times
  • My dear friend, you are in momentary danger of losing this soul of such priceless value. The Value of the Soul.
  • Such a concept has its limitations, not least because the pre-recorded tape could obviously not adapt itself in performance to any momentary inflections from the live players.
  • The sleepiness was back in his voice after that momentary urgency, but it was a nice-sounding sleepiness. A MEANS TO EVIL
  • A glance showed him he had here what he was looking for: distinct micro-momentary bilateral asymmetry. COMPULSION
  • ‘I had a momentary qualm when I was told that the plane was something called a Yak, but it delivered me in time to review the papers on Today’.
  • But ‘bump and run’ is a gray area, where tactical tit for tat, perhaps motivated by momentary anger and revenge, may come into play despite the overall ethic of mutual respect.
  • That queasy feeling when you are gliding on a large puddle is usually a momentary problem. The Sun
  • Then, in stroll momentary vocoders, radioed-out vocal repeats, reverbed guitar/keyboard hits on the chorus, plus everything but a Stock/Aitken/Waterman disco ball, and suddenly, you're grinning your ass off. Mike Ragogna: HuffPost Reviews: Kelly Clarkson All I Ever Wanted / Gin Blossoms Playlist Your Way
  • It was, furthermore, extremely bright, everybody was out in the open, and although the amateurs had come prepared for a momentary brush with a bowel or two, they had no reason to expect a prolonged causerie upon even more intimate matters. Tutors' Lane
  • There are a couple of brief gaps in the print causing very slight and momentary jumps within a scene.
  • We are in momentary expectation of the arrival of you.
  • Was it all just a year of madness, a momentary dot.con?
  • Though her collections tend to include a few pairs of flats and some more mid-range platforms, the question of whether Ms. Skovgaard herself ever wears anything less dramatic than her classic, five-inch platform wedges which elevate her to Amazonian heights, at nearly two meters brings on a momentary diatribe against the kitten heel: It just looks bloody wrong, in my opinion. There's No Business Like Shoe Business
  • A glance showed him he had here what he was looking for: distinct micro-momentary bilateral asymmetry. COMPULSION
  • His loyalty to the British Government at a time when the National movement was raging and his efforts to shore up a tottering feudal institution were not pure personal predilections or momentary aberrations.
  • There is a momentary pause before he answers. Times, Sunday Times
  • The most likely reason was a momentary lapse of concentration. Times, Sunday Times
  • A mindless, momentary decision to steal a pair of Primark trainers could leave some offenders with no chance or wish to be part of society, predicts Joy Warmington of brap, a local equalities think-tank. The Economist: Daily news and views
  • She opened her eyes and headed up King St, peering into cafes as she passed, twitching her nostrils like a sniffer dog, nosing out the secret stash of illicit nectar that would, of course, be the momentary answer to all her problems.
  • Noticed the bee's momentary orienting pause before heading back to the hive.
  • Using this momentary respite, I wrenched the sword blade from the ballistae.
  • A stroke in 1953 had left him with excruciating bouts of pain in his face; crippling agony could be brought on by even momentary concentration.
  • A less common snare for writers on language -- not quite perennial, but perhaps quinquennial -- is that a less than perspicacious reader will find momentary lapses where there is none and precognize them. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 2
  • In the end, he remained trapped between sleep and exhaustion as his momentary lapses awoke him with terrible fear.
  • Despite Netanyahu's momentary, tactical enthusiasm for peace talks, his Likud Party has always favored the de facto incorporation of Palestinian lands into the state of Israel.
  • She had also been warned that since her concussion had been pretty bad she might also have some momentary blackouts.
  • The standard of liberty had been raised by him on the carse of Gowrie, and he carried it in his victorious arm from east to west, from the most northern point of Sutherland to the walls of Stirling; but there, the garrison which the treason of the late regent had admitted into that citadel gave a momentary check to his career. The Scottish Chiefs
  • Alps Electric Europe is offering a tiny momentary-type push switch with detent, which is ideal for mirror control for power window units and for the switching of electric devices in a motor vehicle. Electronicstalk - electronics industry news
  • It glides to a momentary stop over the edge of the enemy beachhead, then strafes its way across, shooting dangerously close to our own troops.
  • That queasy feeling when you are gliding on a large puddle is usually a momentary problem. The Sun
  • It's all cannily designed to make America weak in the knees for Maverick, right down to the mistiness in his eyes when his best friend must be sacrificed...so that Maverick can get a little misty eyed and then push past that momentary weakness to kick a little Russian ass. Michael Giltz: DVDs: When Tom Cruise Became A Superstar
  • In plainer words, he had ricked his jaw, not from general want of usage, but from the momentary excess. Springhaven
  • There is a lot of ‘bent pitch’ - momentary flatting or sharping of the main pitch - in these performances.
  • A momentary romance, that quick magic, the wisp of a mystery, the deluge of life-giving water - this is the stuff of the monsoon.
  • Polls have become not only an instrument for taking the momentary public pulse but a servant of political spin.
  • One reason for this phenomenon, the authors hypothesize, is that indulgence guilt is a “hot” emotion, leading to intense but momentary pangs of conscience. Primary Sources
  • ‘Silly fellow,’ she ejaculated. ‘It's only a momentary pain.’
  • What barrister, young or old, cannot recall mirthful eyes that, with quick shyness, have turned away from his momentary notice, as in answer to the rustling of silk, or stirred by sympathetic consciousness of women's noiseless presence, he has raised his face from a volume of reports, and seen two or three timorous girls peering through the golden haze of a A Book About Lawyers
  • At times, insight — "the strikes were not so much against Afrikaans as a language, but against an Afrikaans government" — vies with prejudice — "the children are being used" — and momentary perspicuity is lost to habits of racism. 'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976
  • He made a momentary show of haughty, indignant refusal, but a movement of my sword quelled the brief revolt in him. An Enemy to the King
  • Suddenly, and due to a momentary lapse in concentration, I too lost my footing and was swept into the stern locker, just as its lid was conveniently lifted by the water.
  • In temporary luxations, disarticulation is but momentary and spontaneous reposition always results; while a fixed luxation does not reduce spontaneously but remains luxated until reposition is effected by proper manipulation and treatment. Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
  • Coleridge wrote remorsefully acknowledging 'a certain tipsiness '-- not that he felt any' unpleasant titubancy '-- whereby he had been seduced into defending a momentary idea as if it had been an old and firmly established principle; which (we may add) has been the way of other talkers since Coleridge. Studies in Literature and History
  • I saw lace, faces I hadn't seen in ages, sunshine, fun merchanting, had a momentary belly dance, got to know a new friend a little better and ... well, generally had a ball. Lacuriosa Diary Entry
  • You have the usual momentary qualm in your belly and a bursting sensation in the ears, but not much sensation of movement till you get near the bottom, when the cage slows down so abruptly that you could swear it is going upwards again.
  • They have a very hard time saying no to momentary pleasures, regardless of the risks or consequences.
  • It was only a momentary kiss but it meant a lot to me.
  • In dealing with the voguish, momentary popularity of moments in this space recently senior moments, Zen moments, Maalox moments, I neglected the essence of the word expressed in the adjective momentous: “of great weight; of major significance.” No Uncertain Terms
  • Occasionally he tapped the ash, a momentary pause in the almost mechanical rhythm of the smoking.
  • She took advantage of his momentary weakness to drive her elbows into his stomach.
  • This is not as depressing as it sounds, for there are always momentary interregna when great men and women come to the fore and inspire communities of like-minded souls to break free from the general mire - this we have learned to call culture. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • Even smooth-talking Whicker is stunned into momentary silence with that one.
  • Then suddenly, you feel a jolt, a thump or a momentary flutter. The Sun
  • This made me flinch and caused me to have a momentary lapse in concentration. Times, Sunday Times
  • And all these deadly seconds his brain and its abilities, so magnificently perfected by the Nunuli, had fought its silent battle for survival on that level of reality below consciousness where, alas, Man actually operated -- Endlessness and foreverness of internal, underlying mental forces that had brought human kind to the brink, with never a single questioning, always an accepting mindlessness of momentary moods and attitudes, to the point where one man and one woman now stood alone against eternity. The Battle of Forever
  • Indeed, no one mentioned this momentary lapse, and it received little press coverage. Sociology
  • The Health Secretary had a momentary lapse of anger. Times, Sunday Times
  • I am also worried that my own, internal, cycle will continue and that this momentary upswing will be followed by yet another downswing as has been the case before.
  • All drivers have momentary lapses and if that is a crime then we are all criminals.
  • ` I think we should leave now, 'he said, flicking his cigarette so that it bounced off the guard's polished toecap, sending a few momentary sparks into the night. Fleshmarket Close
  • He thought it was a momentary loss of concentration by the car driver who he expected to correct the manoeuvre.
  • Few clearer statements of the naturalistic paradox of joy in momentary and sensuous pleasure being clouded by a pall that shrouds even the happiest summits34 can be found in London's fiction than his summary of Fang's outlook at the moment of realization: Le Milieu, Le Moment, La Race: Literary Naturalism in Jack London's White Fang
  • 'The good woman of the house was in momentary expectation of her husband's arrival, but when one hour had elapsed, her impatience overcame her discretion, and she dispatched the slave a second time to summon the moollah, who, in his anxiety to promote a better work, had forgotten the subject of tying the naarah to the moosul. Observations on the Mussulmauns of India Descriptive of Their Manners, Customs, Habits and Religious Opinions Made During a Twelve Years' Residence in Their Immediate Society
  • The visitors are wondering if we have found some secret Hawking-like black hole disappearing mechanism for momentary litter and dog poop!
  • Primarily because I know it is only a momentary dhamma, a reality.
  • About sex , the pleasure is momentary position ridiculous and the expense damnable.
  • She felt a momentary flash of fellow feeling with that eccentric knight. A DEAD LIBERTY
  • But the smaller branch of the two composing the fork broke, and Michael fell to the ground, landing in momentary confusion on his head and shoulders. CHAPTER XXXVI
  • Kathryn felt a momentary jolt of awe and happiness, but it was soon overwhelmed by spite and hatred for this woman, uttering such lies, such falsehood.
  • Thus this box is a coppel in which the essences of all created things, the finest and the grossest, vapours and juices, the soft soothing oils, the bitternesses and tartnesses which at first seem grating, the flavour which evaporates in a momentary enjoyment, are put to the test. The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck
  • the momentary stay enabled him to escape the blow
  • panned," a ledge that held possibilities, or the yellow flakes had shown up thicker than usual in the day's clean-up he had called this satisfaction, the momentary exhilaration, happiness. The Man from the Bitter Roots
  • Shortly after liftoff, the number three Wright radial experienced a momentary surge in power but then stabilized.
  • Add a Bluetooth GPS and you are in momentary geek nirvana.
  • Then suddenly, you feel a jolt, a thump or a momentary flutter. The Sun
  • Of course, he's not just a momentary idol that happens to pack a few hot hard-rock licks.
  • If he had indeed held prudence to be a good, producing felicity, as Epicurus thought, one should have blamed only the absurdity and the paradoxicalness of this opinion; but since prudence of itself is not another thing differing from felicity, but felicity itself, how is it not a contradiction to say, that momentary happiness is equally desirable with eternal, and yet that momentary happiness is nothing worth? Essays and Miscellanies
  • A jay appeared - momentary flash of azure blue wings - to screech and vanish.
  • In a momentary outage, the flywheel may eliminate the need for the batteries to take on the load at all.
  • Two decades ago I achieved momentary fame for taping a promotion broadcast on our local public radio station.
  • But the thought of being personally connected with the transaction was less agreeable; and her momentary flashes of amusement were followed by increasing periods of doubt. The House of Mirth
  • In the movie, the rescue occurs, but felt as cut off at the knees as the ending to Star Wars, with the villain spiraling off into space while the heroes celebrate a momentary victory. Archive 2010-05-01
  • A rotary dial switch instead of the momentary-contact one used would be a cheap way for it to remember the setting you preferred.
  • Japan can breathe a momentary sigh of relief after the release of three Japanese hostages.
  • Resting her head wearily against the hard banister rail, she fought down the momentary surge of panic.
  • Manchester Crown Court was told the tragedy was caused by a momentary, reckless error of judgement.
  • Just before midnight after an especially malicious attack, a momentary lull ensues.
  • What is so dangerous that our oldest statutes could be upended for such a ha'p'orth of momentary panic?

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