11.   And sometimes there are flashes of humor and warmth.

12.   And there were flashes in the preseason games that suggest that Rice and Sapp could be right.

13.   And there were some flashes of humor tonight.

14.   As the former president Alan Garcia campaigned across the Andean highlands, there were flashes of his old populist allure.

15.   Astonishing technique outruns a half-formed sensibility, but there are flashes of great beauty.

16.   A. green flash is a brilliant, emerald-colored spark of light that sometimes appears where the last edge of the sun is setting below the horizon.

17.   All the flash is in the performance of this ruggedly built machine.

18.   Although Benigni restrains himself from his usual slapstick strengths, there are flashes of it.

19.   Briefly the flash was brighter than the normal brightness of the entire planet.

20.   But even in the wobbly narrative bookends that hold a love story, interrupted by disaster, there are flashes of a deeper metaphysical poignancy.