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Sentence Examples His lyrics read like tabloid confessionals, offering glimpses into a celebrity's life. Through the trees you may catch glimpses of billowing sails, wind surfers, cross-lakes ferries and motor boats. Ives may have sympathised with progressive ideas and there are occasional glimpses of the avant-garde in the Art Palace selection. All these glimpses are to lead us towards the conclusion that these women are all incredibly powerful, yet retain a sort of scatty charm. Visitors willing to take the time to decipher the assorted scripts were afforded a hundred or so intimate glimpses into the lives of strangers. The lives of the three Jura Fathers-Romanus, Lupicinus, and Eugendus-provide glimpses into the history and spirituality of Merovingian Gaul. Instead, the book presents a series of glimpses into the lives of the nation's first families. A stroll through older neighborhoods during summer will provide you with glimpses of fragrant four clocks and touch-me-nots. The glimpses of its shadows that have already been revealed so far hint at something rich and strange beneath the appearances. I went up the tree-lined driveway, catching glimpses of a magnificent house. As I don't own a television, my irregular glimpses of that misbegotten medium derive from the hospitality of someone else. Isaacs gives us occasional glimpses of the man beneath all the poisonous bile. Around the world, an elite band of trend-spotters spend their days providing businesses with glimpses of the future. The light reflecting from the hallway allowed glimpses of the sleek figure beneath. There are glimpses of at least three pubs and vague recollections of conversations with unidentifiable individuals. In April the snow started melting, and in May there was rain and slush, the snow disappeared and there were glimpses of sun. His beautifully judged film matches the moments of comedy with glimpses of the unspeakable tragedies that can send a life into tailspin. I am fascinated by near-death experiences, because of the glimpses they give us of what lies beyond death. It is nice to catch glimpses of bumboats passing by while standing on Cavenagh Bridge. Clearly the last chapters of Wilde's novel are not visionary glimpses of the future. Show More Sentences Our weather is very mixed today with odd glimpses of sun striking through racing clouds which keep delivering squalls of rain, sleet and hail. Beyond fields and woods come occasional glimpses of the lake in dry brilliant sunshine. I caught glimpses of the atriums those passageways opened onto, often with gardens, maybe statues, washing hanging out to dry. There was little visible sign even of agricultural activity, apart from glimpses of haymakers scything by hand. In addition, the spectator is given some delightful glimpses of archival footage of Old Beijing such as the pan across the Forbidden City. If you are observant you can get little glimpses into their lives by watching and listening circumspectly. On a borrowed a bicycle, he pedals over hills and along dirt roads, encountering impenetrable characters and glimpses of his own nature. That voice beckons you in with glimpses of a world where pleasure and pain are coeval and complementary, where love and loss walk hand in hand. Unfortunately, the occasional glimpses of that free spirit which leaked out into the tabloid press over the years did her no favours. There are glimpses here of a government machine struggling to keep up with the President's vision of international relations. From his furtive and imperfect glimpses, he projects a continuity, itself irrevocably impossible. Like little portraitures and landscapes, they give the reader glimpses into people and places long since gone. His poems build cubically, back and front and side-angle at once, with glimpses and partials, memories and immediacies held up in time. However, my mind is still fuzzy, unable to make sense out of everything, just getting small glimpses and a feeling of fear and urgency. From the occasional glimpses afforded of him, however, a precised picture of his rise back up the commercial ranks has emerged. You get only fleeting glimpses of the action and you are surrounded by people becoming progressively more drunk. I kept shooting glimpses over my shoulder at all the people who passed me by. A tour of the commercial galleries offers glimpses of the art market at work. The stories are heartbreaking, but the privilege of the briefest of glimpses of the lost lives is also revealing and inspiring. Students of history will find behind-the-scenes glimpses into fascinating and insightful personalities. Show More Sentences The brief spaces in the entrancing melody offer glimpses of a lurking pressure. The possibility tossed him in its hands, showing him glimpses of his potential. Shot mostly among red brick suburbs, the film also offers brief glimpses of the modern concrete city centre. He briefly glimpses a woman running down the wooded path, but she is far away and disappears around a corner before he can look more closely. Complex analysis of the international tale of the hero or heroine who glimpses a forbidden sight and suffers for it. In the run home, they put on another four goals to two, with the goal sneak McGregor showing glimpses of his true potential. Meanwhile, the glimpses we have of the Berlin above show a landscape out of The Triumph of Death, a city devolving into total anomie. Rather than sketch an elaborately realistic background, Bainbridge provides glimpses of odd, unexplained snippets of daily life. His stomach growled angrily and he caught a few glimpses of disapproving gazes directed at him. In the icebergs and the blue heart of the glacier, Muldrow glimpses cold inhuman embodiments of the natural world that promise another reality. He yawned as the last glimpses of the July sun disappeared over the horizon. One of the great joys of watching films for a living is the opportunity some of them afford for glimpses of distant, exotic countries. He has given us glimpses of his potential and now he will get the chance to give us an eyeful. I caught my first glimpses of wild rock wallaroos peering at us shyly from the safety of a rocky ledge. As the room swirled and tumbled around him, Fleet caught only a few quick glimpses of what happened next. Gaping holes puncture the walls, leaving glimpses of lifeless interiors through jagged brickwork and shattered windows. So there were glimpses of china and such that adorned the walls of the Welsh cottage but which have seen little or no daylight here. We get bits and pieces of meaning, some glimpses of hope and we ponder again and again, why so? Women are rarely filmed at such occasions, and they appear only in distant glimpses. Swashbuckling forward play which illuminated the gloomy wasteland of the National League has been rationed to tantalising glimpses. Show More Sentences Residents looked on in tears as water receded slowly, offering the first glimpses of streets, squares and ground floors submerged in mud. I do catch glimpses of red squirrels and deer, however, but I fare much better with the flora. As in the four other pictures, one glimpses a passing figure, perhaps the wraith of paganism. He intersperses such glimpses into contemporary Kuna life and culture with excerpts about what happened to Lionel Wafer. The car is still in its early days yet it has already given glimpses of its potential. Then I catch glimpses of a diver two feet in front of me tying a huge yellow floatation bag onto a sunken landing craft. Random glimpses of people and things appear in his work, their apparitions framed within the small space of his attention. We cruised through a town of cement low-rise hotels, with glimpses of deep rocky valleys behind. It's all micromoments and fleeting glimpses, perfect for the short attention span. Bafflingly, from the few glimpses we're given of it, this haven appears anything but alluring, with Julia coming across as a self-satisfied nag and prig. A sheet of glass is silvered with a pattern of repeated gestural strokes, making for a shifting lattice of fragmentary reflections and glimpses through the glass. A closer look reveals entire nighttime cityscapes embedded in the blots of paint, glimpses of Paris, Hong Kong, Prague, and other cities from Park's travels. There are glimpses of smoky rooms, rolling seas and fiery skies, all conveyed with the desperation of a man who clearly realizes his escapism is also his undoing. When the tide recedes, tide pools offer glimpses of a world apart. Downtown darling vena Cava showed off a structured collection, full of modern lines and alluring glimpses of skin. Her portrayal of urban poverty, including harsh glimpses of racial stratification, sufficiently suggests the hellishness of Smith's everyday world. After all, we get only occasional glimpses of helpless wretches living in slums, or in places far removed from our wonderful clean, green environment. Since a lot of what we do is done for the benefit of others, trying to make good impressions, the few unguarded glimpses behind someone's persona are truly precious. The boxwood is tall enough to provide a feeling of shelter while you're sitting down, yet low enough so that you can enjoy glimpses of the beautiful bonsai beyond the hedge. Shot over a five-year period, the programme reveals secret glimpses into the ordinary, everyday life of cattle, sheep, hens and wildlife on the Cotswold slopes. Show More Sentences There will be brief glimpses into what the future holds as well. It's a pleasant amble, wide and straight, passing beneath bridges, through cuttings and woodland, with glimpses across open countryside to distant fells. As he spun her around, I could get brief glimpses of her face. He looks more fragile suddenly, as if beneath the neatly handsome exterior, the confident demeanour, glimpses of a private self have been revealed. The insight came only in glimpses, like a light on a dimmer switch that suddenly brightens to the point of utter clarity then fades again to a soft glow. The years roll back, as we catch brief glimpses of former lives. Part science fiction, part picaresque, and part burlesque, its alphabetized entries gesture provocatively, giving glimpses of their source's unattainable body. Our lives come and go quickly, only offering us glimpses of the slow evolution of the universe. Birders and hunters higher up the flyway catch only fleeting glimpses of some species, especially when early, bitter northers expedite the migratory process. We see glimpses of your former, less conformist self, reemerging, which has plans to stick around. In fact there are fascinating glimpses of the Babylonians coming to terms with the fact that division by 7 would lead to an infinite sexagesimal fraction. While there are glimpses of felicitous dialogue, there is no chemistry between these two characters to distract from the play's weak dramatic structure. Long, gently inclined staircases traverse the interior space, affording glimpses through slits in the gallery ceilings that act as peepholes to events above or below. And what about the glimpses we're provided of the actors' offstage lives? One of my favorite glimpses of ariel Sharon occurred one day some years ago at a breakfast at his farm in the Negev. For the previous several hours we had caught fleeting glimpses of the faint outline of a range of mountains shimmering through the heat haze that obscured the horizon. But catching glimpses of the concession speeches from the above quintumverate would make the night a lot less painful. Only a few documents remained hidden and survived, leaving contemporary historians with glimpses of ancient culture and knowledge. The group of rorqual whales is passing by, offering tantalising glimpses amid the foam-decked waves. In the midst of the palm trees, street vendors, gazillions of cars and the occasional donkey glimpses of Christmas can be found. Show More Sentences Only a few hidden documents remain today, leaving modern historians with glimpses of ancient culture and knowledge. These wrecks and their cargo remains offer glimpses through time of the economy, culture, and politics of the ancient world. This essay offers some glimpses of the parallel histories of Beckett and Irish scenography, and explores how they have impacted on each other. Those glimpses of the surface revealed deposits of pyroclastic ash-the telltale signs of volcanic explosions-peppering the planet's surface. The scholar Cui Shensi steals glimpses of a beautiful woman living in seclusion and becomes so attracted to her that he proposes marriage. Bird-watchers come for glimpses of hepatic tanagers, red-faced warblers, and elegant trogons. Yet there are glimpses of surpassingly eerie dystopian beauty. And although his slip fielding is the work of a Venus flytrap, Jordan has only given England glimpses of his ability with bat and ball. Mukherjee also inserts occasional glimpses of his own patients, whose experiences are markedly overdramatized. From drinking it, dervishes claimed the drugs bestowed them with visionary glimpses of future happiness. Housesitting for a wealthy couple provides the disillusioned young women with glimpses of unattainable suburban contentment. Thomas, like most early proponents of phoneticism, saw glimpses of its presence, but fell short in the choice or presentation of convincing evidence. Cornish people around Penzance still get occasional glimpses at extreme low water of a sunken forest in Mount's Bay, where petrified tree stumps become visible. There are also more distant glimpses of the Skiddaw and Helvellyn ranges. The life of Severinus of Noricum gives glimpses of the general insecurity, and ultimate retreat of the Romans on the Upper Danube, in the aftermath of Attila's death. Walkers and hikers would not have believed their eyes as they caught glimpses of the two ladies yodelling, accompanied by Helen and Neil Grundy on the alphorns. The lovable dope admitted stealing glimpses of her as she rounded the table shooting. He went on to compliment that her hair was lustrous. The cherriest lips he had ever seen. Selling Vodun flags to outsiders is believed to have started in the 1950s, when tourists began catching glimpses of sparkling Vodun flags at staged ceremonies. Throughout the book, colorful oral histories provide details of the healers' practices and glimpses of the culture of San Salvador Island in the Bahamas. By obtaining glimpses into their own identities in this way, students are provided the opportunity to observe their own superstitious race-thinking and to deconstruct it. Show More Sentences The unofficial past flared more vividly, illuminated in matchlit glimpses. Examples from Classical Literature At Pinzolo, or on the PRA Fiori, we have had glimpses of strange red peaks. The woman-hater affords interesting glimpses of the author's observation, sometimes perhaps experience, in town and country. We gain but faint glimpses of our unscheduled virtues from moralist and theologian. She caught glimpses of glitter and tinsel, wheels and fragments of unidentifiable toys. All of them are rhetorical and poetical rather than dialectical, but glimpses of truth appear in them. Through the warm and milky vapours of the sudatorium could be caught glimpses of the red and naked bodies of notable citizens. There are picturesque glimpses in Mr. Kipling's vulgar stories of fighting. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future. And these first glimpses of the happy lives of others seemed to disaffect me more than ever with my own. He caught short glimpses of another horse matching pace to the one that carried him. It has given us glimpses of the workshop of the archaeologist, the anthropologist, and the etymologist. She had only short glimpses of it, over the tops of the trees on the eyot, and now and then through breaks in their thinner spray. From time to time we have glimpses of these folk sailing about in the Baltic Sea. From what I have narrated above, glimpses of Yamagata and Inouy may be gathered. Her sister asserted the family gentility by flouting the poor swain as he loitered about the prison for glimpses of his dear. Miss Carmichael has given only glances and glimpses, not full insights. As they forced their way up the zigzags, they caught glimpses out and down through the sea of foliage. D'Urfey often introduces fresh and pleasing glimpses of country life. Toward dusk we drew near Milan and caught glimpses of the city and the blue mountain peaks beyond. At last I caught what you may call in distinct glimpses of sound dulled metallic sound. Show More Sentences We catch glimpses of Solway Firth and talk about Redgauntlet. There are in life events, contacts, glimpses, that seem brutally to bring all the past to a close. Of her own future lot, the poor girl thought as little as possible, though fearful glimpses would obtrude themselves on her uneasy imagination. You sometimes catch glimpses of busy women, fat and uncorseted. When the dawn came he was peering out with hungry eyes, getting glimpses of meadows and woods and rivers. Occasional glimpses could be caught of groups of the toiling artillerymen. Surely it is our friend the young master, whom we have had glimpses of before, but his face has gained a great deal since we last came across him. One after the other, through the portholes, as he sped, he also caught flying glimpses of Stubb and Flask, busying themselves on deck among bundles of new irons and lances. Glancing narrowly into the more distant darkness, he caught occasional glimpses of visages that loomed pallid and ghostly, lit with a phosphorescent glow. No more can I look into the depths of this unfathomable water, wherein, as momentary lights glanced into it, I have had glimpses of buried treasure and other things submerged. Literate clergymen dominate the more detailed stories, but Moore also offers tantalizing glimpses of the motivations of merchants, artisans, yeomen, and goodwives. He found himself at first in a thoroughly European quarter, the houses having low fronts, and being adorned with verandas, beneath which he caught glimpses of neat peristyles. Far away I could catch glimpses of the old gray building with its bristling Tudor chimneys, but the drive ran through a dense shrubbery, and I saw no more of my man. When we came within sight of the sea, the waves on the horizon, caught at intervals above the rolling abyss, were like glimpses of another shore with towers and buildings. Now and again he caught glimpses, framed in green foliage, of the golden brown of Lute's corduroy riding-habit and of the bay horse that moved beneath her. It is true, there were some soft and merciful passages occasionally, but the tramp-tramp of the tourists only allowed one to get fitful glimpses of them, so to speak. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of glimpses? Words that rhyme with glimpses What is the adjective for glimpses? What is the noun for glimpses? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words glimpsed glimpse glimmers glimmer of hope glimmerings glimmering glimpsing glint glinted glinting glints glinty 8-letter Words Starting With g gl gli glim glimp glimps glimpse