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Example sentences for: fleetingly
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On television the camera rests fleetingly and incompletely on a single outfit.
The clothes, too, have the fantasy look of things not made with hands, things always more fleetingly pungent or allusive than they are authoritatively beautiful, visions that float across the TV screen on the bodies of the fantasy figures for whom they have been designed, costumes for one performance.
He becomes involved with a woman, a fellow activist, but she appears only fleetingly.
The movie's slapstick and brutality inhabit the same psychological landscape, and Harry's acts of violence are viewed in stroboscopic flashes, held long enough to convey their garishness but so fleetingly that you might giggle at your own uncertainty: Did he really do what I think he did?
Because the notice appears almost every evening on at least one channel and remains on the screen for at least thrity minutes on end, its exposure is far greater than that of a fleeting utterance by a newscaster or a similar written message that appears only fleetingly.