Meanings of many flashes in English

For all its flaws, Get On Up is still entertaining with many flashes of brilliance.

Ned saw many flashes and puffs of smoke, and presently he heard the thud of cannon.

The poems of Lucretius are as you say-with many flashes of genius, yet very technical.

So many flashes mean a certain thing.

Not twenty feet from them came a bursting roar, a flash, many roars, many flashes, many bullets.

They gazed across a wide valley toward high green hills, along which they saw rapid and many flashes.

Phanes spoke slowly, emphasizing every syllable, and the words seemed to strike the Egyptian like so many flashes of lightning.

Her brain, like one's in a fever, was quick to impressions, alive with broken fragments of thought like so many flashes of vari-coloured light.

Cut off into fragments, that dart adorned with gold fell down on the earth like a blazing thunderbolt from the firmament, diverging into many flashes.