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MOMENTARY
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Traducere în limba română
momentary adjectiv
1. momenan, trecător, efemer, de scurtă durată.
2. care se petrece în fiecare moment / clipă.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
It was all read, however, steadily, attentively, and without the smallest remark; and, excepting one momentary glance at her, instantly withdrawn, in the fear of giving pain—no remembrance of Box Hill seemed to exist.
(Emma, de Jane Austen)
He felt a momentary curiosity.
(Martin Eden, de Jack London)
The gentlemen arrived early; and, before Mrs. Bennet had time to tell him of their having seen his aunt, of which her daughter sat in momentary dread, Bingley, who wanted to be alone with Jane, proposed their all walking out.
(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)
The tears rose in his eyes, and there was a momentary choking in his throat; he said quite calmly:—"Little girl, you will never regret that true-hearted kindness, so long as ever you live!"
(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)
Surprise, consciousness, and pleasure appeared in each of the three on this unexpected meeting; and as Edmund was come on the very same business that had brought Miss Crawford, consciousness and pleasure were likely to be more than momentary in them.
(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)
There was a momentary expression in Captain Wentworth's face at this speech, a certain glance of his bright eye, and curl of his handsome mouth, which convinced Anne, that instead of sharing in Mrs Musgrove's kind wishes, as to her son, he had probably been at some pains to get rid of him; but it was too transient an indulgence of self-amusement to be detected by any who understood him less than herself; in another moment he was perfectly collected and serious, and almost instantly afterwards coming up to the sofa, on which she and Mrs Musgrove were sitting, took a place by the latter, and entered into conversation with her, in a low voice, about her son, doing it with so much sympathy and natural grace, as shewed the kindest consideration for all that was real and unabsurd in the parent's feelings.
(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)
But the sight of Mr. Knightley among the most attentive, soon drew away half Emma's mind; and she fell into a train of thinking on the subject of Mrs. Weston's suspicions, to which the sweet sounds of the united voices gave only momentary interruptions.
(Emma, de Jane Austen)
The steady countenance which Miss Lucas had commanded in telling her story, gave way to a momentary confusion here on receiving so direct a reproach; though, as it was no more than she expected, she soon regained her composure, and calmly replied: Why should you be surprised, my dear Eliza?
(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)
There was something pathetic in his concentration as if his complacency, more acute than of old, was not enough to him any more. When, almost immediately, the telephone rang inside and the butler left the porch Daisy seized upon the momentary interruption and leaned toward me.
(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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