What it was was a sudden flowering of intense cold, as if liquid helium were being blasted into his cortex.

In contrast, Ms. Byatt said, she sees the "sudden flowering of the historical novel in Britain."

Fellow Egyptologists had dismissed him as a crank for arguing that the sudden flowering of Nile civilization must have its roots in an earlier culture.

In short, George W.'s career was not a precise copy of his father's but rather - until a sudden flowering in the last decade - a poor-quality carbon.

Selection of Stallions Why the sudden flowering of talent from those bloodlines?

Whatever the answer, the connection between her experience and her sudden flowering is hard to see.

This was followed by a sudden flowering of fine toolmaking, sophisticated weaponry, sculpture, cave painting, body ornaments, and long-distance trade.

The odd-couple cliche got a heavy workout in news stories about the sudden flowering of bipartisan comity.

He still could not get used to the change in her, the sudden flowering.