Moments of being can be found in all Virginia Woolf's fiction. Examples from her novel Mrs Dalloway are to be found especially in two main characters that are most receptive moments of being: Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus Smith. Clarissa's experience her moment of being while she is in the middle of what appear to be trivial acts, indicating that is not the action, but her awareness that sets a moment of being apart from her other experiences. For example, as Clarissa watches 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 her self and her surrounding.
Moments of being are immediate, they after do not allow a character to reflect all assign meaning to them. The moment of being are marked by particularly vivid and powerful language because they are moments of exact feeling, the language used to convey them must naturally be precise and evocative; the form and content must be in perfect symmetry. In her moments of being Virginia Woolf uses a language that approaches poetry.