He began, too, to take an active interest in politics over the Eastern Question, but his enthusiasm was at the moment a flash in the pan.
When jumpsuits broke onto the fashion scene in the spring, some people thought they were nothing more than a flash in the pan that would fizzle out before they caught on.
Simpson's second album, Irresistible, sold considerably less than her first and she was generally thought to have been a flash in the pan.
Rather than being a flash in the pan whose albums are bargain bin destined, Sparks has shown signs that she might be able to make her career last for the long haul.