Example sentences of "[verb] at [art] [adj] moment [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is never a moment when Dustin gets as worried as Gary Cooper in High Noon , although , like Cooper , he has to cope singlehandedly with a number of killers , and is only saved at the final moment when his wife blasts the last opponent with a shotgun . |
| 2 | The writer discovered or was introduced to Robinson Crusoe too early , so that it appeared to be a tedious book ; Mervyn Peake 's Gormenghast trilogy appeared a little too late , so that he accepted it with a little less excitement than it deserved ; and Proust 's Remembrance of things past came at the right moment when he had the tenacity for the task . |
| 3 | Should we not be suspicious of postmodern critiques of the ‘ subject ’ when they surface at a historical moment when many subjugated people feel themselves coming to voice for the first time … . |
| 4 | Striptease … is based on a contradiction : Woman is desexualised at the very moment when she is stripped naked . |
| 5 | He had arrived at the precise moment when Elizabeth had begun to sob and then desolately to weep , and all Lydia 's skills , social , sexual and manipulative , had abruptly deserted her . |
| 6 | He had arrived at the precise moment when another twist in the plot of a murder weekend was unravelling itself . |
| 7 | There was no discussion of this , and Changez did n't demur at the crucial moment when something could — maybe — have been done . |