The momentary outburst had subsided to be replaced with the old calmness and placidity. |
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Aunt Pinkey was enough like her nephew to understand and even get a bang out of the ridiculousness of his momentary rage. |
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To that extent they become momentary warriors, taking on in the act some culturally masculine qualities. |
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It's a kind of recording of the daily frustration and the daily exhilaration and the momentary exaltation of the fact of living itself. |
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Cai's impact on the Scottish capital will not just be a momentary intervention on the city skyscape. |
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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. |
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The call of any race is simply a momentary climax in an unfolding sequence of related events week to week. |
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Its a mirage, a figment of some businessman's dream or an economists momentary flash of desperation. |
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The distant clatter of a milk van revives a long-lost, though momentary, reverie. |
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Occasionally he tapped the ash, a momentary pause in the almost mechanical rhythm of the smoking. |
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A momentary drop in concentration and Schuettler was two breaks down and the set had slipped away from him. |
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He thought it was a momentary loss of concentration by the car driver who he expected to correct the manoeuvre. |
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Any one person can win the game, his unfortunate momentary rival getting the blame for the inverse loss. |
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She took advantage of his momentary weakness to drive her elbows into his stomach. |
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The sense of relief is momentary as further scrutiny reveals the cracks in the economy. |
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France takes the idea of passion being a mediating factor further, like momentary madness. |
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The attack helicopter's appearance did cause a momentary pause in the battle. |
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It may have been due to her diabetes or a momentary lapse of concentration that she drifted across the road. |
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A father watching his daughter comb her brother's hair experiences a momentary pang of pure happiness. |
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There are a couple of brief gaps in the print causing very slight and momentary jumps within a scene. |
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She needed to know that it was just a momentary lapse in judgement and that she was his only love. |
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All drivers have momentary lapses and if that is a crime then we are all criminals. |
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Either it slipped my mind that I was, in fact, 19, or I'd suffered momentary aphasia. |
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In any event, she was charming in the face of my momentary lapse in speech. |
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But despite the momentary release, it doesn't solve the problem, and may compound it. |
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She had also been warned that since her concussion had been pretty bad she might also have some momentary blackouts. |
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Battle was only a momentary distraction, a simple, uncomplicated escape from the troubles of his life. |
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I couldn't explain the momentary stillness inside of me, or the rush of nameless emotions that followed. |
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Even smooth-talking Whicker is stunned into momentary silence with that one. |
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The glance he spared her was only momentary before he refocused steadily forward. |
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Most fortunately, the visor on my helmet was down and I suffered only a momentary loss of vision. |
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It is slow and deliberate, punctuated with momentary bursts of creativity or rage. |
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What is so dangerous that our oldest statutes could be upended for such a ha'p'orth of momentary panic? |
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Briant painted a picture of a meaningless post-pub altercation, an open-handed push, a momentary spat from which both parties walked away. |
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Japan can breathe a momentary sigh of relief after the release of three Japanese hostages. |
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The momentary pain of a sting gives way to an illusionary floating feeling that lasts six to eight hours. |
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However, the momentary setback of failing that exam delays Dan just enough to miss the plane. |
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In their estimation, nothing could explain the coincidences except the momentary passing of a gravitational wave. |
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I'm just smiling at his momentary confession of weakness as he carries me over to our booth. |
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The momentary high voltage on the metal plate provides the necessary energy to ionize the xenon gas, making the gas conductive. |
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Among all the contemporaneity we catch a momentary glimpse of old Devon, as it was fondly enshrined in Trollope's memory. |
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Ian's head smacked against the bottom of the dashboard and his ears popped from the momentary change in air pressure. |
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In a momentary outage, the flywheel may eliminate the need for the batteries to take on the load at all. |
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Frustratingly unproductive weekend, caused partly by the momentary glimmerings of a social life and partly by my own hopelessness and indolence. |
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Lindel took a momentary pause as he sifted through the classroom with his electric-blue eyes for any signs of panic amongst his pupils. |
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The momentary diversion of his attention, it seemed, was sufficient to elicit Deuroff's shift in focus as well. |
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Then in injury time, Miller's searching header back across a crowded area wreaked momentary havoc. |
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Shortly after liftoff, the number three Wright radial experienced a momentary surge in power but then stabilized. |
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Two decades ago I achieved momentary fame for taping a promotion broadcast on our local public radio station. |
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She appears to value nothing except publicity, to think of nothing beyond momentary pleasure. |
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Manchester Crown Court was told the tragedy was caused by a momentary, reckless error of judgement. |
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Here, however, momentary escape into the wild blue yonder gives way to reality as his body is found amongst the vehicle's twisted wreckage. |
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An inquest heard how a momentary lapse of concentration may have caused a crash that killed three members of one family. |
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The crying woman's head jerked up, eyes flashing in momentary anger at my tone of voice. |
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Of course, he's not just a momentary idol that happens to pack a few hot hard-rock licks. |
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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. |
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Just before midnight after an especially malicious attack, a momentary lull ensues. |
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After a momentary lull, he and the others turned back and prayed even harder. |
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She cast a sad momentary glance around the room then stood up to retrieve her coat. |
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In the end, he remained trapped between sleep and exhaustion as his momentary lapses awoke him with terrible fear. |
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She bid at least a momentary adieu to all that back-to-nature, cross-cultural ornamentation she loves. |
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Even if the protest over schoolbooks proves momentary, stress between the two countries will likely continue across a range of fault lines. |
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Using this momentary respite, I wrenched the sword blade from the ballistae. |
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The other possibility is a redefinition of momentary happiness in terms of a more global evaluation. |
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I think the situation you are thinking of may have occurred in isolated instances later on, such as the Hyksos people's momentary control of the Nile region. |
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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. |
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Cassandra looked on in amusement, glad for the momentary diversion. |
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The D major conclusion blazed forth in its full glory, brilliantly anticipated by a momentary slowing of the tempo just before the final outburst. |
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Since the chance of serious injury is minimal, the piles-ups can be guiltlessly enjoyed as momentary respite from the narcoleptic effect of the actual competition. |
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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. |
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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. |
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The talk faded to a momentary lull, and Matt seized his chance. |
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All it takes is a false step, a bump, a push or even a momentary lapse of common sense to fall from safety and into the dark dangerous depths below. |
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Both the question and the response caused a momentary hush in the crowd. |
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When we bump into each other at meetings or conferences we share a momentary nostalgia because we bumped into each other in activist circles back then. |
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What took place was a momentary loss of temper and he struck out in anger. |
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Tweeting about it provides momentary relief, followed by the brief validation of the retweet. |
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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. |
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I had a momentary insight into the fragility and mortality of mankind. |
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After a time, Fun came out of the hole, cut a caper in front of Sulkyface, and gave a peculiar shriek, which forced him to give a momentary smile in spite of himself. |
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Primarily because I know it is only a momentary dhamma, a reality. |
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It is hardly a rejection of adulthood, rather a momentary escape from routine. |
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There was a momentary pause as this information was absorbed. |
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He turned and dived out from the momentary cover as it crumbled under the war machine's onslaught, returning fire with the twin weapons as he continued to evade his pursuer. |
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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. |
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They no doubt felt a twinge of satisfaction but it could only have been momentary. |
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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. |
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Does this really sound like an event at the beginning of time when the universe experienced a momentary burst of expansion? |
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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. |
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A wallet gets picked from inside a kimono sleeve in a momentary impulse. |
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For this Muslim-majority nation, secularism was not a momentary reaction to Pakistani brutality. |
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Whereas the latter two describe a durative expectation, surprise is a momentary feeling. |
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But this momentary ebullition of feeling is but a storm in a tea-kettle compared to the ferocity of a jealous lover seeking to devour his rival. |
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The tragedy is something you will have to live with through a momentary lapse of concentration and misjudgement. |
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A momentary coolness from the dark Flows inward on the tender-handed breeze. |
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When a heroine's tragic flaw takes the form of uncontrollable love for an outlaw, the paths of momentary glory can lead but to defeat. |
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During an absence seizure there's momentary loss of consciousness without abnormal movements. |
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By its nature performance is momentary and evanescent, which is part of the point of the medium as art. |
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They are not the result of momentary negligence or incompetence. |
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There are no fade-ins or fade-outs in the film to give the players a momentary break. |
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It had cost me a distinct psychological effort to do so, and now that I was shut inside I had a momentary longing for precipitate retreat. |
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Thus this box is a coppel in which... the bitternesses and tartnesses which at first seem grating, the flavour which evaporates in a momentary enjoyment, are put to the test. |
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But on Thursday night, whether it was a momentary speedbump or the first sign of a monumental unraveling, that newfound resourcefulness suddenly dried up. |
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The easily DIN rail-mountable, DC-DC type UPS is an ideal countermeasure for momentary voltage drops and power failures of industrial computers and controllers. |
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Even momentary contact with a power line can injure or kill. |
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Indecent Exposure, McClintick's earlier expose of wheeler-dealers in the movie industry, caused a great fuss that put Hollywood on the momentary defensive. |
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Even these explosives are, however, dangerous if the charges are large, since then a momentary pressure on the air is developed and a decided rise of temperature. |
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If you find she was not in her right mind, that she was the victim of insanity, hereditary or momentary, as it has been explained, your verdict will take that into account. |
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