All 6 Uses of
fleeting
in
Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell
- When it comes to the task of understanding ourselves and our world, I think we pay too much attention to those grand themes and too little to the particulars of those fleeting moments.†
Chpt Intr.fleeting = lasting a short time
- Some fleeting emotion would flash across her face.†
Chpt 1 *
- But with three glasses, we have to be able to describe and hold the taste of the first and then the second cola in our memory and somehow, however briefly, convert a fleeting sensory sensation into something permanent—and to do that requires knowledge and understanding of the vocabulary of taste.†
Chpt 5
- It is picking up on subtle, fleeting cues in order to read someone's mind—and there is almost no other impulse so basic and so automatic and at which, most of the time, we so effortlessly excel.†
Chpt 6
- Ekman calls that kind of fleeting look a micro expression, which is a very particular and critical kind of facial expression.†
Chpt 6
- Or do we catch a fleeting microexpression of distress and unhappiness flickering across his or her face?†
Chpt 6