That instant of fleeting beauty when you realise why you strive.

Because cherry blossoms have a short blooming period, they are said to represent life’s fleeting beauty.

I found myself beneath trees looking up and daydreaming, smitten by their fleeting beauty.

So much for fleeting beauty.

The sakura blossom's fragile quality represents the fleeting beauty of nature, and indeed human life itself.

It means that when they do cast politics a fleeting glance that moment will supply their reasoning.

Well, not judging from a fleeting glance at the first-quarter figures: a 764 million attributable loss (report page 45).

One fleeting glance behind him and he struck out.

We exchanged fleeting glances of mutual dislike and incomprehension.

He dummied the pass - another fleeting instant of uncertainty - and darted into the area.

It happens at every level of every game - everyone who has ever played any sport can remember moments of stepping beyond normal limitations, if only for a fleeting instant.

He holds a razor, or else scales balanced on a sharp edgeattributes illustrating the fleeting instant in which occasions appear and disappear.

Overall, though, for all its striking images and fleeting instants of intensity, the production lacks a persuasive heartbeat.

Recognising human frailty, and the fleeting nature of life, she wrote obituaries that were rich in detail and often wrenched at the emotions.

A thousand billion people were unperturbed by the fleeting nature of the video.

It's about the impermanence of youth and the fleeting nature of life itself - it's about friendship, it's about commitment, it's about family.

They contain news stories that remind me of the fleeting nature of some of the things that seem newsworthy today.

The impact of the fleeting nature of the highs and the persistent proximity of the relegation zone have been one of the biggest challenges he has faced.

Black's last move was careless and allows a fleeting opportunity.

A fleeting opportunity when a sentry's attention was distracted allowed him to limp to the wire, wearing only a pair of shorts, wriggle underneath and drop into a nearby ditch.

Decisions are, by necessity, made extraordinarily quickly, grabbing fleeting opportunities to ensure mission success and the safety of the team.

He had fleeting opportunities; as recently as the autumn, though, he was not involved at all.

They were fleeting opportunities, and they could have lost by a greater margin.

In the end, too much passion, too much angst, was compressed into a fleeting second half.

Bold flavours and interesting textures combine into arrangements on the plate that - for a fleeting second - you don't want to spoil.

Not even for one fleeting second.

Their work takes a fleeting second and expands it into a timeless contemplation of the moment.

Probably for a second they had the fleeting thought that this could be the time when things went wrong.

You resist once again the fleeting thought of some other line of work.

Petty issues that once would have received only a fleeting thought now get under our skins where they fester.

I pay little attention to a silly dream, a wistful longing, a fleeting thought, a troubling memory.

It's a joke, or a fleeting thought that gives you a thrill, but not behaviour that threatens your relationship.