a-flicker

Above her, a frightened woman leans out a window with a candle to light the scene with a flicker of hope.

In an alien gesture of authority, he would often punctuate such calls with a flicker of his long, forked tongue.

Perhaps it was just a flicker of thought that transported you for a moment, before you dismissed it as nonsense.

A flicker of disapproval crossed the old man's face, but it was not his way to question his queen. "As you command. "

As he spoke, young fighters came to him, and said, "Allahu akbar, " in urgent, soft voices. There was a flicker of hope in his eyes.

There was a flicker of interest in the problem a few years ago but it was snuffed out by the recession.

But sometimes for a lucky few, a flicker of light pierces that darkness and brings with it the promise of better days to come.

A flicker of doubt passed across the long, solemn face of Barristan Selmy. "As you command. "

The altered-consciousness part is pretty much invisible; I've felt a flicker of it here and there, but nothing like before.

She thought she saw a flicker of admiration in his eyes, but it was gone in a flash.

Harrison says that there may be a flicker of hope for a happy ending for Pepper.

The bulbs also work better than earlier fluorescents, reaching full brightness quickly without a flicker.

But in my eyes there is a film of shame and in my breast a flicker of fear; my face is veiled and I weep when I cannot see you .

The invention relates to an image acquisition device and a flicker control method thereof.

When the wind reached the mountain-top he could see something happen, a flicker of blue stuff against brown clouds.

He was here for a flicker of a moment, but then he's gone, I didn't really talk to him.

I still felt a flicker of interest when I saw her, but only a flicker.

Again, I do not claim that these brief answers do the subject justice, but perhaps they might provide a flicker of understanding.

But at least there is a flicker of movement on the political front.

I detected a flicker of challenge in his eyes.

Sometimes, when the flames of hope dwindled to a flicker, I had to fan them with everything I possessed to keep them from going out.

and I flicker, flick, flick, flick, a flicker of celluloid.

There is the lamp but never a flicker of a flame -- is such thy fate, my heart? Ah, death were better by far for thee!

Kurt ventured a glance back. The rift was only a flicker now, and shrinking.

there was a flicker of flame deep in the sunken black eyes.

Only a flicker of light from a mobile phone separated the ghosts around me from the mountain behind them.

And subtle as a breeze that fans a flicker to a frame.

A flicker of interest soon turn into the burning flames of desire.

With renewable fuels barely a flicker, the country will rely for decades on burning mountains of carbon.

A full fool feel like a flicker in a film.

Today, his beatification causes barely a flicker: all attention is on child abuse and Vatican social teachings.

So why is the clear blue horizon so often clouded by a flicker of self-doubt?

That brought a flicker of life to his face.

His face showed not a flicker of expression.

A flicker of confusion passed across Armon's face.

eg: I think what we're looking for is over there, I just saw a flicker of light over there, let's go look.

Started as a flicker meant to be a flame

a flicker in the darkness, our love is like a spark

a flicker of hope, despair, interest, etc

I saw a flicker in the fake fireplace