Example sentences of "[art] moments of [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Many were angered that work or school meant they could not share the moments of glory after watching the team all season .
2 In considering drama 's place in topic work , we have to start by thinking how we might dramatise the topic ; and that means seeking out human dilemmas , looking for the moments of change in a situation , or the moments when change might be possible ; we 're looking for those moments when people make choices .
3 If , day after day , the mind is habituated to the compassionate idea of love for all people , then at last , it seems to fill with a substance that makes all the moments of life sweet .
4 Well , I was interested , which wo n't surprise you , and tried it on and off , mostly off , for the moments of stress over the momentously stressful years .
5 By this stage of a stall , very often the noise of the airflow will have increased because of the yawing movement , and most of the other symptoms will either be absent or will go unnoticed in the moments of panic .
6 It 's the Saturdays going out to the hospital , the smell of floor-wax and urine in the corridors , the helplessness , the moments of despair
7 My man had an abhorrence of show and pomp and hypocrisy , and would have so enjoyed the moments of absurdity and humour .
8 Authenticity is evident in those small details which come only from experience , particularly in the moments of rest in between the assaults .
9 And of course the moments of dismay and indecision were moments lost .
10 All of us who teach know well the moments of self-doubt , the anxieties and the hesitations , as work is planned and executed and evaluated , the apparent failures and inadequacies bulking large in the mind 's eye .
11 And her stomach twisted as she relived deliciously the moments of passion they had so recently shared .
12 In the moments of stillness between the songs , the hugeness of the night overwhelmed the boat .
13 In the second-person sequences , he is addressed by the voice of his subconscious which , speaking in the future tense , takes him back to relive the moments of truth when he made the choices which were to determine what he later became .
14 Most of us have experienced the moments of intuition when we " grasp " a broad and sometimes even global concept from a minimum of hints or indications , and know the excitement of such occasions .
15 Equally inevitable were the moments of sadness , made more painful by their sheer incongruity .
16 To anyone raising the argument that perpetual servitude is as painful as death and therefore equally cruel , I will reply that , adding up all the moments of unhappiness of servitude , it may well be even more cruel ; but these are drawn out over an entire lifetime , while the pain of death exerts its whole force in a moment .
17 A testing ground with other women in which the moments of assertion were not always secure , in which women attacked and were attacked , in which in an inverted way we both used the consciousness-raising groups to assert a new independence , a new self-determination , and at the same time to express the unarticulated tensions we felt in the other areas of our lives .
18 But that had been all of thirty years ago , and very quickly these demands had multiplied , absorbing more and more time and energy , so that the moments of evening meditation were soon subsumed into the preoccupations and stresses of an active Christianity .
19 There were in my fantasies no moments of tenderness or anger , accommodations , reconciliations , no traffic , no shoppers , no birds , no intrusions .
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