1.   Thunder broke again, and this time there were two or three brief flashes of lightning.

2.   A day at the races is a day filled with brief flashes of heart-quickening excitement molded around several hours of crushing boredom.

3.   Except for these brief flashes when Dick Clark and his minions set me off.

4.   For these brief flashes of cool, you are merely tolerated.

5.   I have to admit, I had a brief flash of hope.

6.   It has brief flashes of violence.

7.   It holds that the universe underwent a brief flash of enormously accelerated expansion during a tiny fraction of a second after the Big Bang.

8.   It includes graphic nudity, sexual situations and discreetly brief flashes of terrible brutality.

9.   It was a brief flash of fire.

10.   Robert Urich plays an amnesiac with brief flashes of memory.