eye-blink

Instead of a sustained narrative, hundreds of snapshots from Alexander's past are pieced together—though "snapshots" suggests something static, and each of these eye-blink vignettes is animated by yearning and often by cries of desire or despair.

Finding the Origin of the Vile Sam Sacks 2011

So they lived in a four thousand year eye-blink with solid mountains and fixed stars and the same set of original sins.

The Nature of Things Marc Horne 2011

There are times in life when every second is drawn out and tortured, and other moments when life seems to have flown by in an eye-blink.

Richard C. Morais: Time to Revive Thomas Mann 2010

We have to re-appreciate how it was that the U.S. -- now only 235 years old -- became richer than the rest of the world in a historical eye-blink, and how that remarkable achievement can be recaptured.

Other Comments 2010

Writer #1: Two weeks is an eye-blink, no time at all, especially at this time of year.

3 Questions: Following Up, Giving Up, and Saddling Up Editorial Anonymous 2010

First set: Murray* 5-2 Querrey Andy Murray's service games are over in an eye-blink.

Andy Murray v Sam Querrey - as it happened! 2010

While the look of the aliens is pure cgi, their every movement and eye-blink, and that twitchy way of moving, is Jason Cope.

Did District 9 Steal Avatar’s Thunder? | /Film 2009

There's an age, which I, apparently, have reached, where an idea can vanish in the eye-blink between "I've gotta write that down!" and "What was it again?"

Earl Pomerantz: Milestone 2009

With her lithe body, lightning-bolt eyes, voice of many colors and some eye-blink costume changes, Smith mutates into a polyglot cross section of social chaos.

Fire In The City Of Angels 2008

Upwards of 200 channels are available in some cable-TV homes, as is cable-phone service, cable digital radio and PC connections to the Internet that operate at eye-blink speed.

Cable's Quiet Mogul 2008