I try to break free in the sudden excruciating moment when I realize what she has done.

And then, in a sudden moment of clarity, he saw it.

It pulls our eyes as well, toward sudden moments of visual clarity.

There isn't that sudden moment when the music stops and you look into one another 's eyes for the first time, or whatever.

In the grove there was a sudden moment of silence.

I had a sudden moment of terror and total disorientation.

The Web site, he said, has become what the pay phone once was: a lifeline for those in sudden moments of need.

Then came a sudden, chilling moment that ended all motion.

What all the troubles of the everyday failed to do, one sudden, violent moment did.

How did we get to this sudden moment of cautious optimism in the Middle East?