Word: flicker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wearily proficient as the murderer; Greta Gynt is blowsily sexy as the wife. The forces of British law & order are, as usual, so immaculately polite about their business that it might tempt some U.S. observers to mayhem, just for the pleasure of meeting them. Occasionally there is a flicker of ingenuity or fright, but most of this picture is sad, stock-company stuff...
...paint the portraits of all the early Presidents with this exception, and a few more strokes would answer for any member of their cabinets; but Jefferson could be painted only touch by touch, with a fine pencil, and the perfection of the likeness depended upon the shifting and uncertain flicker of its semi-transparent shadows...
...series of somewhat closely related actual occasions. No one of us is permanent, no one of us is duplicatable, no one of us is forever without effect on everything there will be. We are internally richer, more intense than other beings perhaps and occasionally we may have a flicker of a consciousness denied to others, but in principle we are like all other beings. Like all else we are focal points unifying the cosmos in a fresh and original way, offering ourselves as material to be unified by what else might follow, and together with all other things in this...
...minutes past the scheduled hour, chunky Eurico Caspar Dutra, flanked by the conference chairman, Brazil's Foreign Minister Raul Fernandes (TiME, Aug. 4), inarched into the room. His opening address was short and dull. The President read it without a flicker of emphasis, shifting his pages from left hand to right as he finished with them. Delegates applauded politely...
...likely, though, to get a bang from the scene, as you will from the whole flicker if you assay it not only as a vehicle produced to make a good point, but also to make a lot of money...