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Flicker in sentence

35 examples of Flicker in a sentence

There's this little flicker, and then as he turns it ever so slightly more, the whole of that green line disappears, and instead there are these little sort of inky dust devils close to the needle.
Imagine, in the empty desert, you come upon a huge wheel ringed in skeletons, and someone invites you to come pull a series of heavy ropes at its base, so you walk to one side, where a team is waiting, and you all throw your backs into it, and you pull in turn, and eventually, the wheel roars to life, lights begin to flicker, and the audience cheers, and you've just activated Peter Hudson's "Charon," one of the world's largest zoetropes.
You could stare at the bright flames forever as they twist and flicker in endless incarnations.
And it can do so much, because a tiny flicker of light that feeds on hope is enough to shatter the shield of darkness.
With these two interpretations happening at once, the light in many Impressionist works seems to pulse, flicker and radiate oddly.
The frontal part, it seems that it works as a filter trying to let information come in only from the right flicker that you are paying attention to and trying to inhibit the information coming from the ignored one.
Holes is indeed a rare breed of Disney flicker shows that is cool.
A flicker of recognition crosses his face.
He was once in the Army but does not appear to have the slightest flicker of any ambition or any interests in life apart from doting on his small family.
Quaid has always had a sinister quality to him for me anyways, with that huge slit mouth span, hiding behind his flicker eyes lying in wait to unleash itself as either mischievous charm or diabolical weirdness (here as both).
Moving pictures begin to flicker on the screen.
Through every mischievous glance and every flare of temper, every flicker of discernment in his eyes and telling facial expression, Toby Stephens is a master of his character.
I'd love to see Jean Schertler(Memama) and Emmy Collins(Hippie in supermarket) cast as mother and son in a film, it would probably be the weirdest flicker ever made!
In the wake of destruction, the world falls into silence, and memories of those lost flicker across flames, whispers in bleeding hearts, and love taken rises up to heaven to tell of how they lived and how they will never be forgotten.
This flicker is badly acted, with hammy dialog and horrible alterations to the comic.
This says a lot about Korea, I guess, in that most people don't want a full tank of gas because it's so expensive, and a few other things that flicker by that indicate that the economy isn't exactly booming.
Feeble off-road racing action pic that raises a flicker of interest due to the presence of a young Susan Sarandon (who is given very little to do) and Joe Don Baker in his brief early career as a leading man.
The premise is stock standard enough that a brainless monkey should be able to make a movie around it, but the script is so unbelievable, and oddly structured (moments of grainy flashback flicker sporadically through the plot, gradually advancing an all too obvious and predictable back story), with characters introduced in tossed-off, sitcom-ish scenes, never to reappear again, that its hard to get through more than a scene or two without groaning.
But Ember's once powerful generator is failing and the great lamps that illuminate the city are starting to flicker.
This flicker's tops, and that's no banana oil! :-)
In his eyes there is always that half-mad flicker, and that ain't acting.
Venezuela’s Questionable Election ObserversWASHINGTON, DC – The congressional elections to be held in Venezuela in December offer a flicker of hope to a country facing dark prospects.
End Taiwan’s IsolationBRUSSELS – As protests over China’s crackdown in Tibet and the debate about Kosovo’s unilateral declaration of independence continue to fester, the injustice of Taiwan’s ongoing international isolation has barely stirred a flicker of interest, despite Taiwan’s recent presidential election and referendum on United Nations membership.
The candle, by the light of which she had been reading that book filled with anxieties, deceptions, grief, and evil, flared up with a brighter light, lit up for her all that had before been dark, crackled, began to flicker, and went out for ever.
They were stupefied to see the flicker of a lamp in front of them.
Whenever he encountered the captain, his eyes would flicker with dark fire, and I was in constant dread that his natural vehemence would cause him to do something rash.
Its tongue, also of horn substance and armed with several rows of sharp teeth, would flicker out from between these genuine shears.
None of the stained glass in the main window shed even a flicker of light on the darkness of the walls.
But, notwithstanding all this, and try as I would, I could not help an occasional flicker of water from going over those dresses.
And then one night as I looked I suddenly saw a little flicker on the beacon hill--a single red tongue of flame in the darkness.