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Ernaux’s novels and memoirs are slim but flashingly deep; they possess the shocking pain of a paper cut.

From Washington Post • Oct. 7, 2022

Their response to this was to chat loudly and use their mobile phones silently but flashingly until he came back on.

From The Guardian • Nov. 5, 2012

Nabokov's treatment of these themes is idiomorphic; his form is flashingly and immutably his own.

From Time Magazine Archive

You live, flashingly ephemeral, an example that the end of talent comes when rebellion's impossible.

From Time Magazine Archive

She anchored them in front with the other comb, and smiled flashingly at him again.

From The Wishing-Ring Man by Widdemer, Margaret