1.   Birk looks up at Kristina, and she looks up at him, and there is the first spark of attraction.

2.   Crenshaw almost always sings about love, from the first sparks of infatuation to domestic complications to betrayals and breakups.

3.   To leaders of the current militant movement, men like Ashmawy are not the first sparks of a new movement of reform but dying embers of decadent Western influence.

4.   When Buckley cross-examined the witness, he created the first sparks of the trial.

5.   What came out of that blustery brain trust was the first spark for the inaugural SXSW Film and Multimedia Festival.

6.   Former Ryder Cup captain Tom Kite saw the first sparks two years ago.