“A glimmer of light flickered in front of him like a faint dying star, but this star didn't wink out of existence.”

“None of them had shown even the slightest glimmer of success, which was more than distressing.”

“Each section had the glimmerings of a good plot, but they all petered out into nothing very much.”

“This past year, though, has seen glimmerings of a revival in commercial, and particularly entrepreneurial, space.”

“But I do think that as we move further, you're starting to see glimmerings of this in some experimental film documentaries for example.”