It still seemed as if we would make our way out of that crowd, as if in just a moment we would be together.
For a brief moment, it was as if someone stuck a pin in a balloon and deflated my lovely day.
At no point did Maddow shake her head vigorously back and forth, making a WUBBA WUBBA WUBBA sound, or cause steam to issue from her ears, or make her eyeballs shoot straight out of their sockets and hang suspended in space for a moment before retracting as if on elastic bands, any of which would have been a reasonable response.
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The whole scene, the sad story that had brought them together, was framed for her for a moment as if from some far-off future perspective, and her rage against Yvonne washed out of her.
For a brief moment, it looked as if the new Congress might see a serious clean-up.
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McCain studied his hands for a moment, as if he were surprised to see the rubber band that he always keeps around his right wrist.
Mother would occasionally come in and stand at the foot of the bed, clearly concerned but awkward, as if she were intruding on a private moment.
For a moment I felt as if I were riding in an elevator as I looked at the blah dashboard.
Indeed, a tentative Mayweather looked vulnerable for perhaps the first time in his career, and for a moment it looked as if he might be overpowered.
Because for a moment it looked as if the party would sweep the old order out of its path, people flocked to it from well beyond its Islamist core.
For a moment, it seemed as if Dolan might survive to rebuild his company.
For a moment, it looks as if they are dancing together to the loud beats of the music.
For a moment, I felt as if I was in a classroom and Professors Brown and Bloom were conducting a course on the nuances and eccentricities of the Competitive Balance Tax.
For a moment, it appeared as if Intel Germany Chief Executive Hannes Schwaderer broke the strict code of silence enforced by Apple this week when he seemingly let it slip to a German-language publication that the computer and gadget maker would be using a version of Intel's Atom processor in an upcoming version of its iPhone.
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For a brief moment, it looked as if the budget might open the way to privatisation and liberalisation.
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Secondly, as I said a moment ago, I think if you look back at -- and again, some of which this administration wasn't here for -- there have been management and board of directors changes in the past.
If only other commentators had shown as good a sense of moment and of balance.
For a moment, their gazes locked, as if, for each of them, the presence of the other were a gash in the ambient reality.
He watched her as she moved around the room, his eyes tracking her as if she were a fly and he was waiting for the right moment to bring down his swatter.
He removed the cigar from his mouth and studied the naked prisoner for a long while, as if he were committing him and the moment to memory.
But, if you are looking for a breathless moment of suspense as the gold envelope with the results of Best Film is ripped open, you are probably not going to get it.
He is absolutely loving it at the moment, he treats every lap as if it's a qualifying lap and is pushing himself all the time.
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My mother wrote letters to my father in the summer she rode with the Freedom Riders, and you know, I think that even as she might have imagined such a moment, I don't know if she would have believed that it could occur in her lifetime.
It seemed as if something more than mere coincidence had just presented itself: a rare shared, civic moment before a planned funeral service Monday at Temple Emanu-El, a Manhattan synagogue.
It would be nice, of course, if Microsoft had a road to Damascus moment and suddenly made Xbox Live free as many have requested, but I have a feeling they have too many people locked into the auto-pay option to just shut the whole system down.
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Sometimes when she moved back out of the book and into her own life, just for a moment she could see her circumstances with a new interest and clarity, as if they were happening to someone else.
And as President Obama said a moment ago, NATO's door will stay open for new members if they perform -- if they fulfill the criteria.
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That certainty has economic value as a hedge, even if the capital cost of wind and solar power stations is, at the moment, higher than that of coal-fired ones.
As I will discuss in a moment, such a Sino-American conflict may be unavoidable even if we have substantially weaned our economy from its present dependence on foreign energy.
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