flicker

A pivotal moment comes when Amir admits he felt more than a flicker of pride when fanatics attacked the Twin Towers.

Hurricane lamps on the tables flicker in the calm island breeze.

Sunday saw a feast of NBA action with the Chicago Bulls toppling the Heat and a flicker of Linsanity down in Houston.

STAMPER nods—we see the briefest flicker of fear in his eyes, but it is immediately replaced with resolve.

Such honesty is what elicits that satisfying flicker in a reader, Of course.

In the shade the effect is less marked, but the constant flicker makes the same sort of variation, though not to the same extent.

The hunter and his little son drew closer and watched the last flame flicker and die out.

These poor wretches fought for the last flicker of the lamp, which the bears wanted to extinguish altogether.

There was no light in this rocky intestine of the earth except the red flicker of the camp-fire.

Then suddenly around the corners of his under lip a little balky smile began to flicker.