Its string lines, at first, were fractious and abrasive, but its piano writing kept leaping in as a voice of reason.

His mind kept leaping away from the thought.

It was a kid that had not been chained; it kept leaping and weaving about its mother.

My mind keeps leaping from one idea to another.

Her mind kept leaping to other matters, to the troubling things that had been happening to her family since moving to 99 Fear Street.

The words 'snowball' and 'hell' kept leaping to mind.

There was no immediate danger, but my mind kept leaping into the uncertain future with a churning dread.

A second 'entranced' victim kept leaping for cover every time the hypnotist mentioned another special word.

"No woman will ever beat me," they mutter in ever-escalating frustration as women keep leaping ahead in sport after sport.

It's the kind of image that keeps leaping back into your head for days afterward, the kind that may require therapy to eradicate.