Despite the boom years of the 90's, or perhaps because of their seemingly instantaneous demise, New York is back.

He remembered the other's high speed movements-that seemingly instantaneous transition from one location in space to another . . . from the bed to Pat, at invisible speed.

Fish, too - their vision limited in murky seas - manage complex, seemingly instantaneous maneuvers when alarmed by an intruder.

In a seemingly instantaneous burst, a wildfire overtakes thousands of acres of surrounding land, threatening the homes and lives of many in the vicinity.

It is seemingly instantaneous at last.

(Although I think the great photographers do have technical expertise, and often years and years of experience, which allows them to take that seemingly instantaneous photograph that will mean something.)

Pathfinder Eight's decision was seemingly instantaneous.

Confirmation of Wesley's access to the control center should have taken nanoseconds, a time seemingly instantaneous by human clocks.

They are constantly stepping outside the story to add transitional commentary that transforms them from characters caught in a drama to people with seemingly instantaneous perspectives on their experience.

This hypothesis helps to explain the placoderms' seemingly instantaneous appearance and diversity at the very beginning of the Devonian.