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blinding revelation

Whitney froze at the sudden, blinding realization of what he intended, and he said in a terrifyingly pleasant tone, "Which will you have, your father or me?

I don't remember waking up with the blinding realization that it was time to go: it was more like a very gradual awareness that there simply wasn't an alternative.

"Of all the treacherous, despicable, underhanded. . ." Whitney ran out of words to express her turbulent animosity at approximately the same time another blinding realization dawned, bringing with it a fresh rush of scalding tears.

Mrs. Childe's cloying sympathy after Andre Moreau's escape had been almost unendurable until she had woken up one morning to the blinding realization that it was completely false and designed to stir up her grief and distress rather than assuage it.

The closest Teddy ever expects to come to a religious experience is the blinding realization that he should forsake his flailing efforts to pursue a career in New York, and instead return home and marry his old sweetheart, Emily, a pretty girl with a clubfoot who shares his sense of diminished expectations.

Because then it was that she knew, with blinding clarity, what had been there for some time now.

I'm not going to get away, she understood in a moment of blinding clarity.

The thought that had been lurking at the back of my mind was suddenly there with a blinding clarity.

It all snapped into her head with blinding clarity.

My timing was perfect; the overhead light flipped on with blinding clarity.

The answer dawned on her with blinding clarity.

In a moment of blinding clarity, she suddenly glimpsed all the potentials should she complete her work.

The lighthouse beam was back, everything lit with blinding clarity, and the tug turning broadside-on to us.

The stark contrast provided blinding clarity, with an emphasis on blinding; it was false to both.

This is a most simple truth that has finally dawned on me with blinding clarity, Your Majesty!'

Time and again she goes like a heat-seeking missile to the heart of the matter and shreds legal monstrosities with blinding clarity.

In the spirit of specifically targeting only the worrisome Muslims, I note that the media have inadvertently identified several of them with blinding clarity.

With sudden blinding clarity, he imagined Alicen's slender, supple body beneath his hands, moving to the rhythm of his fingers.

With the blinding clarity of hindsight, she knew that she had been in love with him for a long time without ever allowing herself to acknowledge it.

For an instant, with blinding clarity, Kennon understood the feelings of the caged male Lani on Otpen One.

Even as I tell it to you now, I see it with such blinding clarity that I cannot believe, in retrospect, that I didn't do something right then and there.

In a flash of bewildering light she saw everything--saw the whole business revealed in terms of blinding clarity and realized at last who was the centre and pivot of the whole organization.

Then, with swift, blinding clarity, Burdieh knew what it was in that house that he had feared so much that he was willing to walk all night in a raging blizzard to es-cape.

Powerful abilities besides his own were laboring to set him free, dispersing the fogs and webs of enchantment that had kept him more than half asleep, letting into his cell a light of almost blinding clarity.

And then the solution struck her with blinding clarity, and she was grabbing her address book and running down the stairs, Apricot yelping at her heels, finding Marcel in his kitchen, seeing the astonishment on his face as she came towards him in her nightshirt, her hair wild, pouring out her news.

It had come to him as a blinding revelation when he was but a small child.

The one blinding revelation I'd had made everything begin to click into place in my head.

Looking up at the shield-wall above him, the answer came like a blinding revelation.

My bosses don't want to know unless I can come up with some sort of blinding revelation.

"There was no blinding revelation in my case," she wrote in her autobiography.

He had not been vouchsafed some blinding revelation, like an ancient prophet receiving the word of God.

In that brief glorious moment when his brain exploded like a supernova, Steve also had a blinding revelation.

And a blinding revelation hit him.

Blinding revelation crashed into Captain Future's brain.

Mary thought, in an instant of blinding revelation; "I've always known it was Katharine Hilbery!"

'One of these days,' Patrick said lazily, 'I'm going to have a blinding revelation about you, and everything'll suddenly make sense.

"We had page numbers in our first design, and it was a blinding revelation that we didn't need to publish a whole week's worth of material at one time."

It will be up to the viewers and the critics to decide if the interviews add up to a kind of collective moral appraisal, if they contain useful insights, blinding revelations, wisdom to live by.

St. Paul holed up here after his blinding revelation on the road to Damascus then converted to Christianity in the street's 56 AD Church of Ananias, which is nestled five metres below ground.

She had believed that it guided her; but now that she had come to the city there was no blinding revelation to help her: Had it abandoned her, forgotten her, left her to count grains of sand on the endless shore?

The blinding revelation came only to that little part of his mind that was still Curt Newton--the revelation of that first epic coming of men to found the Empire of old, to fulfill the command of the mysterious First Born.