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Goliath is a horrific giant cyclops; the drowning sinners trying to claw their way onto Noah's Ark are caught in flashbulb moments of terror and agony; Saul's army rends the raw meat of their slaughter as they try to avoid starvation; the mutilated corpses of Baanah and Rechab dangle from nooses in Hebron; the boiled heads of donkeys emerge from the cooking pot as starving Israelites look on with hungry eyes; Daniel's horned beast crushes a mountain of screaming men and women as it stalks the land; and in Revelations, the rains of fire, floods and famine lay waste to cities as horribly burned famine victims scream and claw at their flesh.

Boing Boing 2009

Flashbangs produced an incredibly bright light—approximately two million candela, which even with eyes closed would cause a bleaching of the rhodopsin, the visual purple in the eye, creating the spots and temporary blindness most people have experienced and referred to as the flashbulb effect.

State of the Union Brad Thor 2004

Flashbangs produced an incredibly bright light—approximately two million candela, which even with eyes closed would cause a bleaching of the rhodopsin, the visual purple in the eye, creating the spots and temporary blindness most people have experienced and referred to as the flashbulb effect.

State of the Union Brad Thor 2004

Flashbangs produced an incredibly bright light—approximately two million candela, which even with eyes closed would cause a bleaching of the rhodopsin, the visual purple in the eye, creating the spots and temporary blindness most people have experienced and referred to as the flashbulb effect.

State of the Union Brad Thor 2004

He added that so-called flashbulb memory of the kind that I had can be incredibly vivid and still be very wrong.

Gizmodo David Carr 2010

It's funny that the "fake news" program The Daily Show may edit its interviews to make the interviewee look silly, but in their news portion they always add the "flashbulb" effect between cuts to show that something's been edited out.

CBS Sidesteps Questions About Editing Of McCain Interview 2009

Even memories of highly emotionally charged events - so-called "flashbulb" memories - are just as likely to suffer this distortion.

Planet Atheism 2009

Don't fret though, Phil's been allowed back into the 'reality-based community' fold today with his latest tweet: "Also, that 'flashbulb' I saw in Draco was almost certainly an

TDG - Science, Magick, Myth and History 2009

What the police did remember to do was take my mug shot, and I faced my first flashbulb moment within minutes of leaving the cell.

Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011

I had to finish my last novel and wait two weeks before I suddenly had my flashbulb moment of what the story had been about all along.

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