She watched the bright flicker in his smile again-like a secret he wanted you to know existed, but which he would never tell.

Ryan looked up and saw a tiny flicker of light, no brighter than a firefly.

I saw bright flickers within the smoke.

I grasped for the something, and it darted just out of reach, a bright flicker like candlelight racing beyond the mare.

I remember the book when it was nothing more than a bright flicker on the psyche, pure ambition.

Then another flicker, a little brighter than the first.

Again the display was sparking with bright flickers of light, but this time they were not the result of computer simulation.

A bright flicker of movement indicated that the television set in Elmquist's living room was on.

It had been nothing more than a bright flicker of light in the darkness of her soul.

He prodded it with his finger, and bright little flickers rippled away from the point of contact.