Moments of being can be found in all Virginia Woolf's fiction. Examples of her novel Mrs Dalloway are to be found especially in the two main characters that are most receptive to moments of being, Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus Worren Smith. Clarissa experiences her moments of being where she is in the middle of what appear, trivial acts, indicating that it is not the action but her awareness that sets a moment of being apart from other experiences.
For example, as Clarissa wathces taxi cabs pass by she finds them "absolutely absorbing". Her thoughts reveal that "what she loved was this, here, in front of her, the fat lady in the cab..". Throughout the day Clarissa is particularly aware of these threads of connection between herself and her sorroundings. Moments of being are immediate, they often do not allow a carter to reflect or assing meaning to them.
The moments of being are marked by particularly vivid and powerful language because they are moments of exact feeling, the language used to convey them must be naturally be precise and evocative, the form and content must be in perfect simmetry. In her moments of being Virginia Woolf uses a language that approaces poetry.